Duke Ob/Gyn Magazine 2025: By the Numbers

Our People

Data reflects Fiscal Year 2024 (7/1/23 – 6/30/24)

  • 100 Faculty
  • 13 Consulting and adjunct faculty
  • 73 Ob/Gyn staff directly employed
  • 500+ Staff (RN, MA, etc.)

  • 36 Residents
  • 19 Fellows
  • 60+ PA/NP/CNM
  • 200+ Students per year (MD, PA, NP)
  • 40 General Ob/Gyn and Community Practices
  • 15 Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • 13 Women’s Community and Population Health
  • 8 Gynecologic Oncology
  • 8 Urogynecology
  • 8 Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
  • 5 Reproductive Sciences
  • 3 Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
  • 2 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (included in categories above)

Our Patients

Data reflects Fiscal Year 2024 (7/1/23 – 6/30/24)

46% increase in visits across various divisions from 148,709 in FY18 to 217,661 in FY24

101,499 patients seen by a Duke Ob/Gyn provider in the Duke University Health System
  • 6,825 Annual discharges
  • 7,748 Annual deliveries (includes WakeMed Hospitals)
    34% total growth FY18-FY24
  • 217,241 Annual clinic visits
  • 5,943 Annual surgeries

  • 69% low-risk pregnancies
  • 31% high-risk pregnancies
36% increase in lives touched

The department has expanded its clinical services to 21 clinics and 5 hospitals, with “lives touched” increasing from 74,810 in FY18 to 101,499 in FY24.


217,241 total arrived visits
  • 10,585 Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
  • 12,237 Gynecologic Oncology
  • 15,944 Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
  • 19,716 Urogynecology
  • 27,235 Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • 131,524 General Ob/Gyn Community Practices

Our Research

Data reflects Fiscal Year 2024 (7/1/23 – 6/30/24)

  • 32 New grants and awards
  • 2 Competing renewals

  • 66 Total funded research projects (new and continuing)
  • 33 Available clinical trials
  • 310 Peer-reviewed publications
  • 96 Active protocols
81% Total federal NIH funding
  • $11,001,336 
  • Direct $8,501,028 
  • Indirect  $2,500,308 
4% Total federal non-NIH funding
  • $569,580 
  • Direct $353,776 
  • Indirect $215,804 
 15% Total non-federal funding
  • $2,086,729 
  • Direct $1,769,960
  • Indirect $316,769

Blue Ridge Institute Ranking

Duke Ob/Gyn was ranked No. 11 in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (Clinical Science Department rankings, 2024).