John Thorp, Jr., MD

Professor
Department of Maternal and Child Health
Hugh A. McAlister Distinguished Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Adjunct Professor
Department of Epidemiology
3027 Old Clinic Building
CB #7570
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA

Honors and Awards

Robert C. Cefalo Faculty Teaching Award
2005, UNC

Golden Tar Heel Medical Student Teaching Award
2005, UNC

Robert C. Cefalo Faculty Teaching Award
2000, UNC

Perinatal Health Model of Excellence
1999, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the March of Dimes

Faculty Teaching Award
1998, UNC

Key Publications

A Genome-Wide Association Study of Early Spontaneous Preterm Delivery. Heping Zhang, Don Baldwin, Radek Bukowski, Samuel Parry, Yaji Xu, Chi Song, William Andrews, George Saade, M. Esplin, Yoel Sadovsky, Uma Reddy, John Ilekis, Michael Varner, Joseph Biggio, Stephanie Archer, Rachel Copper, Pamela Files, Stacy Harris, Ian Blair, Rita Leite, Margaret Zimmerle, Janet Brandon, Sonia Jordan, Angela Jones, Kelly Vorwaller, Sharon Quinn, Valerie Morby, Kathleen Jolley, Julie Postma, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Basso Del, Xiaobo Guo, Buqu Hu, Hao Huang, Lina Jin, Analisa Lin, Charles Lu, Laura Ment, Lauren Perley, Laura Simone, Feifei Xiao, Dwight Rouse, Donna Allard, Ronald Wapner, Michelle Divito, Sabine Bousleiman, Vilmarie Carmona, Rosely Alcon, Katty Saravia, Luiza Kalemi, Mary Talucci, Lauren Plante, Zandra Reid, Cheryl Tocci, Marge Sherwood, Matthew Hoffman, Stephanie Lynch, Angela Bayless, Jenny Benson, Jennifer Mann, Tina Grossman, Stephanie Lort, Ashley Vanneman, Elisha Lockhart, Carrie Kitto, Edwin Guzman, Marian Lake, Shoan Davis, Michele Falk, Clara Perez, Alan Peaceman, Lara Stein, K (2015). Genetic Epidemiology, 39(3), 217-226.

A randomized trial of intrapartum fetal ECG ST-segment analysis. Michael Belfort, George Saade, Elizabeth Thom, Sean Blackwell, Uma Reddy, John Thorp, Alan Tita, Russell Miller, Alan Peaceman, David McKenna, Edward Chien, Dwight Rouse, Ronald Gibbs, Yasser El-Sayed, Yoram Sorokin, Steve Caritis, J. VanDorsten (2015). New England Journal of Medicine, 373(7), 632-641.

Abortion legislation, maternal healthcare, fertility, female literacy, sanitation, violence against women and maternal deaths: A natural experiment in 32 mexican states. Elard Koch, Monique Chireau, Fernando Pliego, Joseph Stanford, Sebastian Haddad, Byron Calhoun, Paula Aracena, Miguel Bravo, Sebastián Gatica, John Thorp (2015). BMJ Open, 5(2).

Buprenorphine and naloxone compared with methadone treatment in pregnancy. Samantha Wiegand, Elizabeth Stringer, Alison Stuebe, Hendree Jones, Carl Seashore, John Thorp (2015). Obstetrics and Gynecology, 125(2), 363-368.

Does the presence of a condition-specific obstetric protocol lead to detectable improvements in pregnancy outcomes? Jennifer Bailit, William Grobman, Paula McGee, Uma Reddy, Ronald Wapner, Michael Varner, John Thorp, Kenneth Leveno, Jay Iams, Alan Tita, George Saade, Yoram Sorokin, Dwight Rouse, Sean Blackwell, Eunice Health, Human Network (2015). American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 213(1), 86.e1-86.e6.

Education

  • Fellowship, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, UNC, 1989
  • Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UNC, 1987
  • MD, Medicine, Eastern Carolina University, 1983
  • BA, Zoology, UNC-CH, 1979