Section of Family Planning & Contraception

Family planning is a subspecialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology devoted to providing specialized reproductive health care. Experts in family planning advocate and apply evidence-based practices to patient care.

Northwestern’s Section of Family Planning & Contraception provides comprehensive family planning care including complex contraception consultation, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic sterilization procedures, and pregnancy termination in the first and second trimesters. Subspecialist faculty from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine attend patients at the Northwestern Center for Family Planning & Contraception, the key training site for the department’s Ryan Residency Training Program in family planning and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Family Planning. Faculty members from the section lead many of the nation’s premier family planning societies including the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, the Society of Family Planning, and the National Abortion Federation. Faculty regularly contribute to scholarly publications in the field of family planning, and participate in clinical and basic science research.