Timothy Canavan, MD, named chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Timothy P. Canavan, MD, MSc, has been named chair for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Upstate Medical University. His appointment, effective Oct. 28, was announced by Lawrence Chin MD, dean of the Norton College of Medicine.
Canavan most recently served as vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPMC) in Central Pa. There, he also held leadership posts in the Maternal Fetal Medicine program and Labor and Delivery (2021-2024).
Canavan is certified in maternal-fetal medicine by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Canavan has extensive expertise in the field of maternal health. He is the author of more than 30 published papers in peer-reviewed journals, authored numerous books, chapters and abstracts and earned more than $240,000 in research grants for six different studies. He has also done extensive manuscript review and conference planning. He is a member of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine. He serves on the advisory editorial board for the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound and is the international editor for Ultrasound (British Medical Ultrasound Society).
His current research focus includes abnormalities in fetal growth and the influence of the placenta on fetal congenital heart disease.
Canavan did his undergraduate work at St. John’s University in Queens, where he graduated magna cum laude and earned the Gold Key in chemistry. He earned his MD at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn in 1988 and his MSc at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005. He earned the Galloway Oncology Fellow Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York in 1991.
He got his clinical start at Staten Island Hospital, where he did his residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in maternal fetal medicine at Pittsburgh Medical Center. He spent several years as a professor at Pitt’s School of Medicine and is currently a primary investigator for the Magee Women’s Research Institute in Pittsburgh. He has also taught at Temple University and East Tennessee State University, where he chaired the OBGYN department.
In Tennessee, he also served as an attending physician at Johnson City Medical Center and on the Tennessee Department of Health’s Perinatal Advisory Board.
He is a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and a Fellow with the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
He has been recognized for his work with the March of Dimes Achievement award in 2000; and in 2009 earned the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics & Gynecology National Faculty Award. He has been named a distinguished reviewer for the Journal of Ultrasound Medicine eight times.