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Joseph B. Stanford, MD, MSPH

A native of Utah, Dr. Stanford graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1988. He completed a Family Medicine Residency and an academic fellowship at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri. He joined the University of Utah faculty in 1993 and is Professor in the Division of Public Health and Director of the Office of Cooperative Reproductive Health. He also holds adjunct appointments in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics. Dr. Stanford teaches and serves as a research mentor for public health students, medical students, and residents and fellows. He currently holds the George D. and Esther S. Gross Endowed Professorship in DFPM.

Dr. Stanford is board-certified in Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is also certified as a FertilityCare Medical Consultant through the American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals. He provides clinical care in maternal and child health, with particular focus on treating infertile couples with natural procreative technology ("NaProTechnology"), and treating gynecologic problems in ways to restore or support normal reproductive function (i.e., treatment alternatives to birth control pills and artificial hormones).

Dr. Stanford is the principal investigator or co-investigator on several large clinical and epidemiologic studies related to fertility, infertility treatment and human development. He is a co-investigator for the University of Utah Vanguard Site of the National Children's Study. Past work has focused on day-specific probabilities of conception, the clinical and demographic implications of fertility awareness and natural family planning, and improving the understanding and measurement of pregnancy intendedness. He has served on national scientific advisory committees for the NICHD (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National institute of Child Health and Human Development) and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). Dr. Stanford is the recipient of many honors, including the Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Contact Information
Address: 375 Chipeta Way, Suite A, SLC, UT 84108
Academic phone: (801) 587-3331
Clinic phone: (801) 581-2000
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Publications

Original Research (Peer Reviewed)

Tham E, Schliep K, Stanford JB. Outcomes of natural procreative technology (NPT) in the treatment of infertility and recurrent miscarriage in a Canadian family practice. Canadian Family Physician, in press.

Melton L, Stanford JB, Dewitt MJ. Use of Plan B® in Utah: is emergency contraception more than plan B? Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health, in press.

Buck Louis GM, Hediger ML, Peterson CM, Croughan M, Sundaram R, Stanford J, Chen Z, Fujimoto VY, Varner MW, Trumble A, Giudice LC. Estimated incidence of endometriosis by study population and diagnostic method, the ENDO Study. Fertility and Sterility, in press.

Simsonsen SE, Baksh L, Stanford JB. Infertility in a population-based sample: 2004-2005. Maternal Child Health Journal, in press.

Crookston BT, Dearden KA, Alder SC, Porucznik CA, Stanford JB, Merrill RM, Dickerson TT, Penny ME. Impact of early and concurrent stunting on cognition. Maternal and Child Nutrition 2011;7(4):397-409.

Nassaralla CL, Stanford JB, Schliep KC, Schneider M, Daly KD, Fehring RJ. Characteristics of the menstrual cycle after discontinuation of oral contraceptives. Journal of Women’s Health; 2011;20(2):169-77.

Crookston BT, Penny ME, Alder SE, Dickerson TT, Merrill RM, Stanford JB, Porucznik CA, Dearden KA. Children who recover from early stunting and children who are not stunted demonstrate similar levels of cognition. Journal of Nutrition 2010;140:1996-2001.

Cai B, Dunson DB, Stanford JB. Dynamic model for multivariate markers of fecundability. Biometrics 2010;66:905-13.

Greenwood JLJ, Joy EA, Stanford JB. The physical activity vital sign: a primary care tool to guide counseling for obesity. Journal of Physical Activity & Health 2010;7:571-6.

Stanford JB, Mikolajczyk RT, Lynch CD, Simonsen SE. Cumulative pregnancy probabilities among couples with subfertility: effects of varying treatment options. Fertility and Sterility 2010;93:2175-81.

Crookston BT, Alder SC, Boakye I, Merrill RM, Amuasi JH, Porucznik CA, Stanford JB, Dickerson TT, Dearden KA, Hale DC, Sylverken J, Snow BS, Osei-Akoto A, Ansong D. Exploring the relationship between chronic undernutrition and asymptomatic malaria in Ghanaian children. Malaria Journal 2010;9:39.

Hammoud AO, Gibson M, Stanford J, White G, Carrell DT, Peterson M. In vitro fertilization availability and utilization in the United States: A study of demographic, social and economic factors. Fertility and Sterility 2009 91(5):1630-5.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB, Ecochard R. Multilevel model to assess sources of variation in follicular growth close to the time of ovulation in women with normal fertility: a multicenter observational study. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2008;6:61.

Greenwood JLJ, Murtaugh MA, Omura EM, Alder SC, Stanford JB. Creating a clinical questionnaire for eating behaviors associated with obesity. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2008;21:539-548.

Stanford JB, Parnell TA, Boyle PC. Outcomes from treatment of infertility with natural procreative technology in an Irish general practice. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2008;21:375–384.

Stanford JB, Simonsen, SE, Baksh L. Infertility in Utah, 2004-5. Utah’s health: an annual review 2007;13:153-7.

De Irala J, del Burgo CL, de Fez CML, Arredondo J, Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. Women's attitudes towards mechanisms of action of family planning methods: survey in primary health centres in Pamplona,Spain. BMC Women’s Health 2007; 7:10 (27Jun2007).

Stanford JB, Dunson DB. Effects of sexual intercourse patterns in time to pregnancy studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 165(9):1088–1095.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. Levonorgestrel emergency contraception: a joint analysis of effectiveness and mechanism of action. Fertility and Sterility 2007; 88(3):565-71.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. Measuring fecundity with standardized estimates of expected pregnancies. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2006; 20(Suppl. 1):43-50.

Snow M, White GL, Alder SC, Stanford JB. Mentor's hand hygiene practices influence student's hand hygiene rates. American Journal of Infection Control 2006; 34(1):18-22.

Dye HM, Stanford JB, Alder SC, Kim HS, Murphy PA. Women and postfertilization effects of birth control: consistency of beliefs, intentions, and reported use. BMC Women's Health 2005, 5:11 (28Nov2005).

Mikolajcyk RT, Stanford JB. A new method to estimate the effectiveness of emergency contraception, accounting for variation in timing of ovulation and previous cycle length. Fertility and Sterility 2005; 83:1764-1770.

Stanford JB, Mikolajczyk RT. Methodological review of the effectiveness of emergency contraception. Current Women’s Health Reviews 2005; 1(2):119-129.

Dunson DB, Stanford JB. Bayesian order restricted inference for count and binary outcome data. Biometrics 2005; 61:126-133.

Hobson SL, Avant-Mier R, Cochella S, Van Hala S, Stanford J, Alder SC, Croskell SE. Caring for the underserved. Using patient and physician focus groups to inform curriculum development. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2005;5:90-95.

Chen C, Wang X, Wang L, Yang F, Tang G, Xing H, Ryan L, Lasley B, Overstreet JW, Stanford JB, Xu X. Effect of environmental tobacco smoke on levels of urinary hormone markers. Environmental Health Perspectives 2005; 113:412-417.

Bigelow JL, Dunson DB, Stanford JB, Ecochard R, Gnoth C, Colombo B. Mucus observations in the fertile window: a better predictor of conception than timing of intercourse. Human Reproduction 2004; 19: 889-892.

Christensen M, Merrill RM, Lyon JL, Stanford JB, White GL. Associations between breast cancer risk factors and religious practices in Utah. Preventive Medicine 2004;38:28-38.

Tingen C, Stanford JB, Dunson DB. Methodologic and statistical approaches to studying human fertility and environmental exposure. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004, 112:87-93.

Buck GM, Johnson CD, Stanford JB, Sweeney AM, Schieve LA, Rockett JC, Selevan SG, Schrader SM. Prospective pregnancy study designs for assessing reproductive and developmental toxicants. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004, 112:79-86.

Stanford JB, Galbraith A, Payne JG. Utah couples’ potential use of natural family planning. Utah’s Health. An Annual Review 2003; 9:40-45.

Stanford JB, Smith KR, Dunson DB. Vulvar mucus observations and the probability of pregnancy. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2003; 101:1285-93.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB, Rauchfuss M. Factors influencing the choice to use modern natural family planning. Contraception 2003; 67:253-8.

Nielsen MS, Barton SD, Hatasaka HH, Stanford JB. Comparison of several one-step home urinary luteinizing hormone detection test kits to OvuQuick®. Fertility and Sterility 2001; 76:384-7.

Fehring RJ, Hanson L, Stanford JB. Nurse midwives' knowledge and promotion of breast feeding and natural family planning as a means of family planning. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health 2001; 46:68-73.

Stanford JB, Hobbs R, Jameson PB, DeWitt MJ, Fischer RC. Defining dimensions of pregnancy intendedness. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2000; 4(3):183-189.

Stanford JB, Smith KR. Characteristics of women associated with continuing instruction in the Creighton Model FertilityCare system. Contraception 2000; 61:121-129.

Howard MP, Stanford JB. Pregnancies probabilities during use of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. Archives of Family Medicine 1999; 8:391-402.

Stanford JB, Thurman PB, Lemaire JC. Physicians’ knowledge and practices regarding natural family planning. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1999; 94:672-8.

Trussell J, Vaughan B, Stanford J. Are all contraceptive failures unintended pregnancies? Evidence from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. Family Planning Perspectives 1999; 31(5):246-7,260.

Fischer RC, Stanford JB, Jameson P, DeWitt MJ. Exploring the concepts of intended, planned, and wanted pregnancy. Journal of Family Practice; 1999; 48:117-122.

Albano JJ, Stanford JB. Prevention of Minor Neck Injuries in F-16 Pilots. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine; 1998; 69:1193-9.

Hilgers TW, Stanford JB. The use effectiveness to avoid pregnancy of Creighton model Napro education technology: a meta-analysis of prospective trials. Journal of Reproductive Medicine 1998; 43:495-502.

Stanford JB, Lemaire JC, Thurman PB. Women’s interest in natural family planning. Journal of Family Practice; 1998; 46:65-71.

Campbell JD, Mitchell P, Stanford JB, Ewigman BG. Validating a model developed to predict prenatal care utilization. Journal of Family Practice 1995; 41(5):457-464.

Stanford JB, Lemaire JC, Fox A. Interest in natural family planning among female family practice patients. Family Practice Research Journal 1994; 14(3):237-249.

Stanford JB, Solberg LI. Rural patients' desires for preventive medical care. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. 1991: 4:11-18.

Reviews and Theoretical development (Peer Reviewed)

Stoesser K, Stanford JB. Polycystic ovarian syndrome. Evid Based Pract 2010 Oct. 13(10):9.

Greenwood JLJ, Stanford JB. Preventing or improving obesity by addressing specific eating patterns. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2008: 21:135-140.

Selevan SG, Stanford JB. Workshop recommendations for the preconception cohort of the National Children's Study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2006; 20(Suppl. 1):60-65.

Stanford JB, White GL, Hatasaka H. Advice for timing intercourse to achieve pregnancy: current evidence. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2002; 100(6):1333-41.

Stanford JB, Mikolajczyk RT. Mechanisms of action of intrauterine devices: update and estimate of posfertilization effects. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology; 2002; 187(6):1699-708.

Kahlenborn C, Stanford JB, Larimore WL. Post fertilization effect of hormonal emergency contraception. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2002; 36:465-470.

Larimore WL, Stanford JB. Post fertilization effects of oral contraceptives and their relation to informed consent. Archives of Family Medicine; 2000; 9:126-133.

Campbell JD, Stanford J, Ewigman B. The social pregnancy interaction model: conceptualizing cognitive, social and cultural barriers to prenatal care. Applied Behavioral Science Review 1996; 4(1):81-97.

Invited Commentary

Stanford JB. Emergency contraception: overestimated effectiveness and questionable expectations. Counterpoint. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2008; 83(1):19-21.

Stanford JB, Dunson DB. Foreword to special issue of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2006; 20(Suppl. 1):1-2.

Book Chapters, Videos, Proceedings

Stanford JB. Video interview. KUTV Healthy Living. Topic: Natural Family Planning. February 28, 2008.

Stanford JB, Feltz S. Video, KUTV Healthy Living, Baby Your Baby Series. Topic: Natural Family Planning. December 15, 2006.

Stanford JB. The role of randomized controlled trials in NFP studies. Proceedings of conference. Natural Family Planning, Where Faith and Science Meet. August 2006. Catholic University of America, Georgetown University, and Marquette University.

Stoesser K, Stanford JB. Polycystic ovarian disease. PEPID Primary Care Plus. Skokie, IL: PEPID. October, 2005
http://www.pepidonline.com/Main.aspx

Stanford JB, Danis PG. Natural family planning. PEPID Primary Care Plus. Skokie, IL: PEPID. November, 2005
http://www.pepidonline.com/Main.aspx

Stanford JB. Measuring effectiveness and pregnancy rates of the Creighton Model System. In: Medical and surgical principles of natural procreative technology. Ed: Hilgers TW. Pope Paul VI Institute Press, Omaha, 2004; ISBN 0-9744147-0-0, 1244 pp.

Stanford JB. Fecundity and mucus cycle score in couples using the Creighton Model System. In: Medical and surgical principles of natural procreative technology. Ed: Hilgers TW. Pope Paul VI Institute Press, Omaha, 2004; ISBN 0-9744147-0-0, 1244 pp.

Hilgers TW, Stanford JB. Achieving-related pregnancy rate and its natural adaptability. In: Medical and surgical principles of natural procreative technology. Ed: Hilgers TW. Pope Paul VI Institute Press, Omaha, 2004; ISBN 0-9744147-0-0, 1244 pp.

Stanford JB, Dunson DB. Day-specific probabilities of conception in the menstrual cycle. In: Integrating faith and science through natural family planning. Eds; Fehring RJ, Notare T. Marquette University Press, Milwaukee 2004:79-99.

Stanford JB, Hobbins D. Preconception Risk Assessment. In: Family Practice Obstetrics. Second Edition. Eds: Ratcliffe SD, Baxley L, Byrd JE, Sakornbut EL. Hanley & Belfus, Mosby, St. Louis, 2001:1-13.

Letters

Lopez-del Burgo C, Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. Emergency contraception: an unresolved issue. Contraception 2011 Feb;83(2):187.

Stanford JB, Mikolajczyk RT, Dunson DB. Are Chinese people really more fertile [letter]? Fertility and Sterility 2010 Aug;94(3):e58.

Stanford JB, Parnell TA, Boyle PC. Response: Re: Outcomes from treatment of infertility with natural procreative technology in an Irish general practice [letter]. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2009;22:95-96.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. The empirical and ethical questions of induced versus natural losses of preimplantation embryos[letter]. Contraception 2007 Sep;76(3):256.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. Quantitative assessment of postovulatory effects of levonorgestrel emergency contraception [letter]. Contraception 2007;75:402-403.

Stanford JB. The biology of human sex differences [letter]. New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 355:98; author reply 98.

Stanford JB, Mikolajczyk RT. Emergency contraception [letter]. Pediatrics 2006; 117(4):1148; author reply 1450.

Stanford JB, Larimore WL, Poehalis K. Weighing the risks and benefits of emergency contraception [letter]. American Family Physician 2005; Online comments.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. Effectiveness of Levonorgestrel emergency contraception not fully explained by ovulatory dysfunction [commentary]. Contraception 2005; 73:107; Author reply 108.

Stanford JB, Larimore WL. Description of emergency contraception in the media [letter]. Contraception 2005; 72:394-5.

Stanford JB, Mormon Bioethics, First Things 2005 (letter).

Stanford JB, Cochella SW. More on family medicine research [letter]. Family Medicine 2005; 37:612.

Mikolajczyk, RT, Stanford JB. Efficacy of postcoital contraception [letter]. Fertility and Sterility 2004; 81(6):1725.

Stanford JB, Hager WD, Crockett SA. The FDA, politics, and Plan B [letter]. New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 350:2413-2414.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford, JB. Validity of methods used to estimate the effectiveness of emergency contraception. Biom J 2004; 46(Supplement):61.

Stanford JB, Dunson DB, Tingen C. Studying human fertility [letter]. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004; 112(11).

Larimore WL, Stanford, JB, Kahlenborn C. Does pregnancy begin at fertilization? [Letter]. Family Medicine 2004; 36:690-1.

Stanford, JB. The visit before the morning after: barriers to pre prescribing emergency contraception [response]. Annals of Family Medicine 2004;
http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/eletters/2/4/345

Mikolajczyk RT, Frank-Herrman P, Freundl G, Stanford JB. More than one fertile ovulation per cycle? Fertility and Sterility 2004; 81(3):728-9.

Mikolajczyk, RT, Stanford JB. Estimating the efficacy of emergency contraception [letter]. Fertility and Sterility 2003; 80(6): 1536-7; author reply 1537.

Mikolajczyk RT, Spinnato JA, Stanford JB. Uncertainty in estimating the day of ovulation causes overestimation of the role of ovulation disturbance on the effectiveness of the Yuzpe method of emergency contraception. [Commentary]. Contraception; 2003; 68:69-71.

Mikolajczyk RT, Stanford JB. False risk attribution results in misleading assessment of the relationship between suppression of ovulation and the effectiveness of the Yuzpe regimen for emergency contraception. [Commentary]. Contraception; 2003; 67:333-5.

Larimore W, Stanford JB. Ectopic pregnancy with oral contraceptive use has been overlooked (letter). British Medical Journal 2000;321:450.

Stanford JB, Larimore W. Informed consent for post fertilization effects of hormonal and surgical forms of birth control for women (letter). Archives of Family Medicine 2000; 9:690-691.

Hilgers TW, Stanford JB. Analyzing contraceptive failure (letter). Journal of Reproductive Medicine 1999: 44:480-481.

Stanford JB. Measuring contraceptive effectiveness: a conceptual framework. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1997; 89:157-158. (letter).

Stanford JB, Weed SE, Toffler WL. Second-trimester abortion. New England Journal of Medicine. 1994; 331:1715-6. (letter).

Bretzman MC, Stanford JB. Condoms, IUDs, counseling, and natural family planning. American Family Physician 1994; 50(4):765 (letter).

Stanford JB. Hypnosis for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. American Family Physician 1994; 49(8):1733 (letter).

Stanford JB. How effective is natural family planning? Patient Care 1994; 28(10):8. (letter).

Stanford JB. More on condoms in school clinics. Postgraduate Medicine 1993; 94(1):40. (letter).

Stanford JB, Peyton E, Lee S, Kraus R. Letting children observe deliveries. New England Journal of Medicine. 1992; 326:1085-6. (letter).

Pierce RP, Stanford JB. Hyperkeratosis and colposcopy. Journal of Family Practice. 1992; 34:136. (letter).

Stanford JB. Contraception-natural family planning. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. 1991; 4:277-8. (letter).

Stanford JB. Microcomputers in rural preceptorships. Family Medicine. 1989; 21:165. (letter).