Rebecca Hamm, MD, MSCE

Rebecca F. Hamm, MD, MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Penn Implementation Science Center, and the Co-Director of the Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Training (AMETHIST@Penn), the implementation science hub for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Implementing a Maternal Health Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative, which works to strengthen the rigor of implementation science methods and training in over 20 maternal health equity research projects across 10 diverse U.S. centers. In her own NIH-funded research, she employs quantitative and qualitative methods to study the implementation of evidence-based practices in routine obstetrics. Nationally, she serves as the Co-Lead for the Implementation Science for Maternal Health Interest Group, and the Vice Chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine, and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) at Penn.