Dr. Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., Chair of the CTAF Panel, is Associate Dean, Primary Care, and Professor (past chairman 1971-96), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

Currently, he also holds professorships in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UCLA and Dartmouth Schools of Medicine. He was chief-of-staff, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles (1971-1996).

In this position in 1971 he developed a new and subsequently nationally recognized, full-service academic department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Davidson received his B.S. cum laude from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and M.D. from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

His residency training was at Harlem Hospital and his fellowship in blood coagulation at Columbia University, both in New York City.

His major organizational responsibilities have included President, Los Angeles Obstetrical and Gynecological Society; Chairman, Obstetrical and Gynecological Assembly of Southern California; Chairman, Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology National Medical Association (NMA); Chair, Board of Trustees, NMA; President of the Association Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics; President, of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; President, Golden State Medical Association (Chapter, NMA); and President, North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.

Dr. Davidson is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.