Dr. Denise Howard grew up in Columbus, Mississippi. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Mississippi and then attended Johns Hopkins receiving a MD, MPH in 1993. She completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Magee Women’s Hospital in 1997 and then a fellowship in Urogynecology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Howard remained on faculty there until 2001 when she relocated to the Atlanta area where she was in private practice until 2010. She and her family moved to the Middle East where she worked in various leadership positions in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Doha, Qatar before returning to the U.S. at the end of 2019.
Prior to joining Weill Cornell, she was the Chief of Gynecology for Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania where she also had a faculty appointment at the medical school and served as core faculty for the residency program. She is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a Certified Physician Executive, and a Fellow of the American Association for Physician Leadership. She is also a member of the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons.
Since joining the enterprise, Dr. Howard has sought opportunities to leverage technology to deliver equitable care and to improve operational efficiency. She recently won first place in the Weill Cornell Medicine 2024 Business Plan Challenge competition hosted by the Bio Venture eLab.
