Hector Chapa – The Conversation

Profile Articles Activity Hector Chapa, MD, FACOG, is a board-certified OB-GYN and serves as clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and clerkship director for OB-GYN at

Texas A&M College of Medicine. He is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker and published author in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Chapa has been involved in

research of minimally invasive gynecological procedures. He has published more than 40 clinical articles, case reports and medical commentaries covering both obstetrical and gynecological

topics. Other areas of research publications include therapies for abnormal uterine bleeding, post-partum sentinel events and female sexual health. Dr. Chapa has taught as an invited

physician-faculty member in South Africa, Israel, the European Union, the Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Chile, Columbia and Canada due to his unique lecture style and passion for

evidence-based learning. He serves as the director of interprofessional education for the College of Medicine. As medical education has evolved, training of future healthcare professionals

must be done with a team-focused approach, in addition to being patient-focused. Dr. Chapa assists in supervising disaster day student activities, interprofessional simulations for OB/GYN

and is an advocate for interprofessional curriculum development. In clinical practice, he is an OB-GYN hospitalist at CHI St. Joseph Regional Hospital in Bryan, Texas. He is a graduate of

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School with specialty training at Parkland Memorial Hospital. EXPERIENCE * –present Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of Interprofessional

Education, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University