Dr. Leslie Appiah is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado School of Medicine and Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She serves as Division Chief of General Obstetrics and Gynecology in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Fertility Preservation and Reproductive Late Effects program at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Children’s Hospital Colorado Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Dr. Appiah attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed residency at Sinai Medical Center in Baltimore. She subsequently completed a research fellowship in reproductive genetics and clinical fellowship in pediatric and adolescent gynecology at Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Appiah is a recent Clinical Reproductive Scientist Training Scholar through the National Institutes of Child Health and Disease and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Dr. Appiah is well-published and speaks across the nation. She holds several national committee chairs in reproductive medicine and is co-founder of the Pediatric Initiative Network of the Oncofertility Consortium serving as chair for five years and is currently co-chair of the Adolescent and Young Adult Reproductive Late Effects Committee of the Oncofertility Consortium. Dr. Appiah’s clinical and research interests include fertility preservation in pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients with cancer, reproductive late effects in cancer survivorship, and hormone replacement therapy in the medically complex patient.
