Dr. Cassing Hammond is Director of the Section and Fellowship in Family Planning & Contraception and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University.

Dr. Hammond obtained his BA and MD degrees through the six year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Following residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester, he joined a university affiliated private practice in Rochester.

He decided return to academia in 1995 to pursue two seemingly distinct academic interests: reproductive issues confronting women with disabilities and family planning. Hammond's academic interests include contraception and abortion among medically compromised patients, particularly women with physical and cognitive disabilities. He directed the OBGYN service at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for fifteen years and has served as primary gynecologic consultant for Northwestern's Comprehensive Women's AIDS Program for ten years.

He is Board Chair of the National Abortion Federation, a founding member of the Society of Family Planning, a fellow the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a member of numerous other medical organizations dedicated to women's reproductive health.