Rebecca H. Allen, MD, MPH, staff physician in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Care at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, and Elisabeth D. Howard, PhD, CNM, FACNM, director of the Division of Nurse Midwifery at Women & Infants’ have both been promoted to the rank of associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Allen, of Providence, joined Women & Infants’ in 2007 after completing a fellowship in family planning and a research fellowship in medicine through Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Women's Health. She completed the dual medical degree/masters of public health degree program at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She fulfilled residency requirements at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Howard, of Warwick, joined the faculty and has been teaching at Women & Infants and Brown since 2004. A graduate of William Smith College in Geneva, NY, Howard completed her midwifery training at the Yale University School of Nursing and her PhD in nursing science from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.