DMC Names New Specialist-in-Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology

DETROIT — David Bryant, M.D., has joined the Detroit Medical Center as its Specialist-in-Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His appointment is effective September 1, 2022.

Dr. Bryant will provide medical direction and leadership for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and will play a vital role in the program’s continued growth. Dr. Bryant graduated from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio with departmental honors in biological sciences and earned his medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at William Beaumont Hospital winning the Harold Longyear Award for the most outstanding graduating resident.

He then completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at DMC Hutzel Woman’s Hospital. After completing subspecialty medical training in 1997, he was an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Ohio, a senior staff physician at Henry Ford Hospital, and Director of Obstetrics at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Bryant’s clinical activities cover the breadth and depth of maternal-fetal medicine in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. His main clinical interests include labor and delivery care of both normal and high-risk pregnancies, operative vaginal delivery, and the clinical care of maternal medical conditions, especially maternal diabetes and opioid use disorder. He particularly enjoys teaching residents and fellows in the clinical setting.

Dr. Bryant has also been recently named as the Frank P. Iacobell Endowed Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University.