Cassing Hammond, MD

Serdar E. Bulun, MD

Dr. Cassing Hammond serves as the Section Chief and Fellowship Program Director of Family Planning and Contraception in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where Dr. Hammond is also an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Hammond received his BA and MD degrees from the University of Missouri at Kansas City's six-year School of Medicine and completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester. Following several years in private practice, he relocated to Northwestern to pursue academic interests related to reproductive health care of medically complex patients. He has directed gynecologic services at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, served as the consultant gynecologist for Northwestern Memorial Hospital's integrated HIV Center and served as medical director for Prentice Ambulatory Care and Surgery, the outpatient training clinics for Prentice Women's Hospital. In 2002, he launched Northwestern's Fellowship in Family Planning which, at the time, ranked 11^th out of now more than 30 fellowship programs throughout the United States and Canada that train physician scientists in complex abortion and contraception care and research. An ardent proponent of reproductive justice, Dr. Hammond has chaired the board of directors of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), the nation's largest professional association of abortion providers. He is one of fifteen founding members of the Society of Family Planning and a member of the board of directors of Physicians for Reproductive Health (PRH). In 2005, he received NAF's C. Lalor Burdick Award, given to “Unsung Heroes” of abortion rights. He has also received special recognition for community service from both PRH and Personal PAC Illinois.

Dr. Hammond has received numerous honors for teaching including Northwestern's Magnus P. Urnes Awards for Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education, the APGO CREOG Award for Medical Education and Northwestern's Robert Winter Award for Medical Education. In 2013, he received a “Mentor of the Year” award from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.