COM student chosen for National Institutes of Health elective research rotation

Ashley Cronkright (D.O., ’22) has been selected to participate in the highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) elective research rotation in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

The rotation will offer Cronkright a unique experience at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a state-of-the-art research hospital with 200 inpatient beds, a surgical day hospital, and outpatient facilities that support the clinical care required for patients enrolled in human subject investigation protocols.

She will learn how to manage a large number of complex patients with a spectrum of reproductive genetic and endocrine pathology.

The rotation also includes weekly clinical conferences, preoperative and academic didactic conferences, as well as specialty program conferences with presentations and discussions covering reproductive problems and state-of-the art research relating to endocrinology and reproduction.

Cronkright will learn from faculty from four institutions: The National Institutes of Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and Shady Grove Fertility Center.

The program’s mission is to train reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellows who will become physician-scientists, serve as faculty in military, government, and academic institutions, and provide evidence-based cutting-edge treatments to couples with infertility.