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Biography: Audrey Drummey, MD, an OB/GYN with University of Maryland Shore Medical Group-Women's Health, has a passion for bettering the health and lives of women throughout their life stages. Her interests include the management of gynecologic health, contraception, fertility and low- and high-risk pregnancies. She has experience in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery with laparoscopic and DaVinci robotic approaches for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. Dr. Drummey is from the Washington, D.C., area. She earned her bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She completed her medical degree at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where she developed an affinity for women's health. Dr. Drummey trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was elected to serve as the Academic Chief Resident, a role in which she worked to further evidence-based medicine and quality improvement. Dr. Drummey's diverse interests have led to several presentations at national meetings. She has presented work on vaginal breech deliveries at the 2017 CREOG & APGO Annual Meeting. She also created a video to help educate other health professionals on vaginal deliveries, which was presented at the 20202 CREOG & APGO Film Festival. She earned a Future Leaders award from the Society of OBGYN Hospitalists for her passion for maternal safety and quality improvement. She is passionate about women understanding their genetic predispositions for cancer, and researched and presented on a model for Universal Genetic Screening for BRCA and Lynch Syndrome at the Society for Gynecologic Oncology Winter Meeting and Annual Meeting in 2019. Dr. Drummey is an active member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. She is certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).

Biography: Dr. Duane Cespedes is currently the Director of Comprehensive Continence and Pelvic Health Center in Easton, Maryland. He served previously as the co-director for the Center for Pelvic Health at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and is the former Chairman and Program Director of the Urology Department at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio where he trained residents in urogynecology for 15 years. He retired from the Air Force after 24 years of service at the rank of Colonel. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., and performed a Urology residency in San Antonio. He subsequently performed a fellowship in Urogynecology / Female Urology with Dr. Edward McGuire in Houston, Texas. Since that time, he has been active both clinically and academically in the area of female urology, incontinence and pelvic reconstruction having published over 100 chapters and papers. He is also active in research and is the former chairman of the Institutional Research Board at Wilford Hall Medical Center. Dr. Cespedes has received many awards including the Paul Zimskind award of excellence in Female Urology and Urodynamics in 2004. He currently serves as a consulting editor for UROLOGY. His current areas of interest include urodynamics, the treatment of pelvic prolapse, and male and female incontinence.