Fellowship Program Director
Associate Professor
Education and Training
- Residency: Washington University in St. Louis
- Fellowship: Washington University in St. Louis
- Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rachel Zigler, MD, MSCI is an associate professor of OBGYN in the Division of Complex Family Planning at Rush University. She completed her residency in 2016 and fellowship in 2018 at Washington University in St. Louis where she also received a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation. Dr. Zigler joined the faculty at Rush in 2025. She previously worked as faculty at an institution in the Southeast where she led Family Planning services, established a Family Planning rotation for residents, and was awarded the Ryan Program in Family Planning designation. She is passionate about medical education and giving residents/fellows the experience to provide safe and skilled reproductive healthcare to their patients.
Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Professor
Education and Training:
- Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University
- Fellowship: University of California San Francisco Medical Center
- Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Dr. Sadia Haider is the Glenn G. and Blanche S. Ehrler Endowed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Chairperson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Rush University Medical Center. She is an alumnus of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and obtained an MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, followed by a fellowship in Family Planning at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Haider’s contributions to reproductive health span patient care, academic leadership, research, and advocacy. She has served as principal investigator on numerous NIH, CDC, and foundation-funded studies conducting health-services research to improve contraception access, advance HIV prevention for cisgender women, and address maternal morbidity and mortality, and has published widely on these topics. Dr. Haider advocated for reproductive healthcare access at the White House and continues to champion women’s health locally and nationally. She is passionate about educating and mentoring the next generation of reproductive health care providers and has served as a Family Planning Fellowship Director at multiple institutions including establishing the fellowship in Complex Family Planning at Rush. She also has a research program at Rush focused on decreasing reproductive health disparities through health services research using an inter-disciplinary team approach.
Nationally, Dr. Haider has served as the President of the Society of Family Planning Board of Directors and serves on the Board of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has received multiple awards for excellence in teaching and clinical practice, including recognition as Exceptional Women in Medicine and Castle-Connolly Top Doctor for numerous years.
Complex Family Planning Division Director
Physician Co-Lead CARLA Program
Associate Professor
Education and Training:
- Residency: University of Illinois College of Medicine-Chicago
- Fellowship: University of Chicago
- Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Laura Laursen (she/her) is an associate professor of OBGYN in the Division of Complex Family Planning at Rush University. She completed her residency in 2016 at UIC and fellowship in 2018 at University of Chicago where she also received her Masters of Science. Dr. Laursen joined the faculty at Rush in 2018 and was essential in establishing the CARLA program. She is focused on ensuring access to abortion for all patients in the Midwest and caring for patients with complex medical conditions who need reproductive healthcare.
Residency Program Director
Associate Fellowship Director
Associate Professor
Education and Training
- Residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
- Fellowship: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
- Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Dr. Sloane York, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of OBGYN in the Division of Complex Family Planning at Rush University. She completed her residency in 2011 and fellowship in 2013 at Northwestern University where she also received a Masters in Public Health. Dr. York joined the faculty at Rush in 2013 where she established family planning services and helped develop the Division of Complex Family Planning. Since 2018, she has been the OBGYN Residency Program Director at Rush. She is also the Associate Program Director for the Complex Family Planning Fellowship. Her research includes work in medical education (specifically abortion simulation, access to abortion training for OBGYN residents, and education for OBGYN residents), 2nd trimester labor induction, and disparities in access to abortion and contraception.
Second Year Fellow
Heather_A_Bouma-Johnston@rush.edu
Education and Training
- Residency: University of Illinois College of Medicine - Chicago
- Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Dr. Heather Bouma-Johnston is a Clinical Instructor of OBGYN in the Division of Complex Family Planning at Rush University. She completed her residency in 2024 at UIC. She is passionate about later abortion care and advancing reproductive access through healthcare policy research. Her research focuses on Medicaid sterilization policies and contraception provision post-Dobbs.
First Year Fellow
Education and Training
- Residency: Albany Medical College
- Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Dr. Kate Crofton is a Clinical Instructor of OBGYN in the Division of Complex Family Planning at Rush University. She completed her residency in 2025 at Albany Medical College. Her research interests include medical education, family planning access, and pain management in gynecology. She especially enjoys teaching all future doctors about abortion and contraception.