Anuja Dokras: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Founder's Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Penn PMOS Center at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia
- Quoted on
- Women's health & gynaecology
- Press citations held
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“We recognize that patients with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiometabolic risk factors — obesity, high blood pressure, prediabetes — and we have studied that in the form of metabolic syndrome. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is high among women with PCOS in their 20s and 30s.”
What Anuja Dokras has said
“Anuja Dokras and colleagues compare the effects of oral contraceptive pills, metformin, and a combination of both on metabolic syndrome prevalence in patients with high-risk hyperandrogenic polycystic ovary syndrome and obesity.”
Research lead on COMET-PCOS randomized clinical trial · Women's health & gynaecology · 30 Sept 2026 · PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 22(12) January 2026 ↗
“my research and that of other world experts strongly suggest PCOS is a hormonal or endocrine disorder affecting the fat tissue, ovaries, liver, brain, and even the microbiome”
MD, MHCI, PhD, physician and researcher specializing in women's health, directs a multidisciplinary PCOS center in Philadelphia · Women's health & gynaecology · 30 Sept 2026 · Opinion | What's in a Name? A New One Might Help PCOS Patients ↗
“So this began in 2012. We had a meeting at the NIH, the National Institutes of Health. It was a multidisciplinary meeting on PCOS, as it was called then. We had made a significant amount of research progress, and we wanted to share that with the NIH, and they then produced a white paper.”
Founder's Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Penn PMOS Center at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia · Women's health & gynaecology · 30 Sept 2026 · You’ve been lied to about PCOS. Its new name tries to correct that ↗
Where Anuja Dokras has been quoted
- PCOS with diagnosed depression may signal greater cardiometabolic riskhealio.com · 30 Sept 2026
- PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 22(12) January 2026journals.plos.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Opinion | What's in a Name? A New One Might Help PCOS Patientsmedpagetoday.com · 30 Sept 2026
- You’ve been lied to about PCOS. Its new name tries to correct thatscientificamerican.com · 30 Sept 2026
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