SSR is managed by a Board of Directors consisting of the Executive Council, six Directors, and two Trainee Representatives elected by a ballot of the Regular Members of the Society. The SSR Bylaws detail each position’s responsibilities and term of office.
Governance Documents for SSR can be found here.
Executive Council
Rebecca Krisher
President
Term: 2026-2027
Pennsylvania State University
Genus Deforest, Wisconsin
Aileen Keating
President Elect
Term: 2026-2027
Iowa State University
Humphrey Yao
Vice President Elect
Term: 2026-2027
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIEHS/NIH
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Kanako Hayashi
Treasurer Elect
Term: 2026-2028
Washington State University
Melissa Pepling
Secretary
Term: 2025-2028
Syracuse University
Mellissa Mann
Past President
Term: 2026-2027
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Directors
Christopher Price
Term: 2025-2028
Université de Montréal
Ulrike Luderer
Term: 2025-2028
University of California Irvine
Niamh Ford
Term: 2026-2029
University of Edinburgh
Karen Schindler
Term: 2026-2029
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sue Hammoud
Term: 2024-2027
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
James MacLean II
Term: 2024-2027
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
Early Career Investigator
Camilla Hughes
Term: 2025-2028
Pennsylvania State University
Trainee Representatives
Bhawna Kushawaha
Trainee Representative
Term: 2026-2027
Indiana University School of Medicine
Julia Balough
Junior Trainee Representative
Term: 2026-2027
University of Pittsburgh
Executive Director (ex officio)
Kathy Doran
Society for the Study of Reproduction
Denville, New Jersey
Editors-in-Chief (ex officio)
Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PhD
Term: 2025-2029
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Jeremy Wang, MD, PhD
Term: 2025-2029
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania