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Niraj R. Chavan, MD, MPH, FACOG, FASAM

Associate Professor, Fellowship Director
Saint Louis University / SSM Health
Saint Louis, Missouri

Niraj R. Chavan, MD, MPH, FACOG, FASAM is a Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) and Addiction Medicine physician and holds faculty appointment as an Associate Professor in the Div. of MFM, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health at Saint Louis University School of Medicine (SLUSOM). He serves as the Medical Director of the Women and Infant Substance Help (WISH) Center at SLU/SSM Health, focused on managing perinatal substance use disorders (SUD) in St. Louis, MO. He also serves as the Program Director for the MFM fellowship, core faculty for the Addiction Medicine fellowship and Course Director for a SLUSOM course on “Perinatal Addiction and Maternal Mental Health”. Most recently, Dr. Chavan was appointed as the Regional Obstetric Quality Chair for SSM Health – St. Louis, in order to oversee perinatal quality improvement efforts across 5 hospitals in the St. Louis region. He was also recently elected to the position of Secretary for the Midwest Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (MWSAM).

Dr. Chavan currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ACOG) as the Early Career Fellow-at-Large and is a member of the ACOG Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obstetrics, Quality and Safety Initiatives delegation and the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) – Patient Safety and Quality Committee. He also serves as the Chair-Elect for the Missouri Perinatal Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) Board and the Maternal Health Chair for the Missouri Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MOPQC). Dr. Chavan is Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and has lectured extensively on various aspects of perinatal SUD management at the local, regional and national level. He is actively working towards implementation of statewide quality initiatives directed at reducing disparities in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.

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