Donald R. Coustan MD

Dr. Donald R. Coustan, M.D. is the Obstetrician & Gynecologist-in-Chief, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Chace/Joukowsky Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Brown Medical School, and Surgeon-in-Chief for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Rhode Island Hospital. He graduated from Yale Medical School in 1968, and did his internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Medical Center. After two years in the Navy, he returned to Yale in 1975. He moved to Brown and Women & Infants Hospital in 1982 as Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Associate Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology. In 1986, Dr. Coustan was promoted to Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Brown Medical School, and in 1991 he became Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brown.

Dr. Coustan has published widely in the areas of diabetes and pregnancy and gestational diabetes. He is currently Principal Investigator of the BIRCWH and WRHR sites at Brown, of which Dr. Maureen Phipps, an RWJ Clinical Scholar alumnus, is Program Director. Dr. Coustan has served as President of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association, and is an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He currently has two former RWJ Clinical Scholars on his departmental faculty.