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The Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Prenatal Diagnosis & Treatment Center

Harold Fox, M.D.
Chairman, Gynecology & Obstetrics

Harold E. Fox obtained his Bachelors degree from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. After completing his Baccalaureate studies, he matriculated at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, obtaining his MD degree with honors and with distinction in Research. Upon completion of his MD degree he was awarded a Masters of Science degree in fetal physiology. Dr. Fox completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and then his fellowship in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Harold E. Fox is the Dr. Dorothy Edwards Professor and Director of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Gynecologist and Obstetrician-in-Chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Health System. During his training and junior faculty positions, Dr. Fox was mentored by Professor Geoffrey Dawes of the Nuffield Institute in Oxford England and also Dr. Mortimer G. Rosen, Dr. L, Stanley James, and others. Working with Professor Dawes, Dr. Fox introduced intrauterine fetal eletrocortical activity monitoring to the Nuffield Institute in Oxford which led to the identification of activity state changes in the fetal lamb and elucidation of mechanisms of control of fetal respiratory activity in utero.

Dr. Fox secured federal research funding and foundation funding to pursue studies of the development of fetal respiratory activity in the human fetus and also, through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the March of Dimes, the regionalization of high risk obstetrical care at a time when maternal transport was rarely thought of, Dr. Fox developed programs in upstate New York to assure delivery of the high risk fetus in an environment best prepared to support the care of the newborn. These facilities have become known as regional perinatal centers.

During his tenure at the Sloane Hospital for Women of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, he advanced to the rank of Professor and Vice Chairman and ultimately interim Chairman of the department. His research evolved from investigations involving fetal tolerance of the intrauterine environment to the challenges of retroviral epidemiology with the AIDS epidemic. As principle investigator of the NIAID Women and Infants Transmission Study and as chair of the Executive Committee of the multi-site NIH program, Dr. Fox became intensively involved with the AIDS clinical trial group as the chair of the Ob section and was a principle obstetrician who moved forward the now landmark 076 protocol which demonstrated the very significant reduction of vertical transmission of HIV by the administration of antiretroviral agents to the infected mother and the potentially infected newborn.

In 1996, Dr. Fox joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Medicine in the position which he currently holds. At Hopkins, Dr. Fox has served two terms as member of the governing board of the Clinical Practice Association and served for three years as Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Medical Board and after a three year term is the immediate past Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Board. Dr. Fox also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians and Johns Hopkins Healthcare.

Dr. Fox is in active practice of Ob/Gyn and Maternal Fetal Medicine.