James C. Rose, Ph.D. is the Frank C. Greiss, Jr. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Dr. Rose received the Ph.D. degree in Physiology in 1973 from the Medical College of Virginia and then spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco working in the laboratories of William F. Ganong, M.D. and Abraham M. Rudolph, M.D. He joined the faculty at Wake Forest in 1976 and has remained at the institution his entire career.

Dr. Rose has served as a member of three NIH Study Sections:  International and Cooperative Projects, 1986-1990; Human Embryology and Development, 1991-1996; and the Maternal and Child Health Subcommittee, 2000-2005 (Chair, 2004-2005).

Dr. Rose has been on the Editorial Boards of Endocrinology, 1986-1990; American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 1984-2002; American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1988-1995; and completed a term as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. He currently is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation.

Dr. Rose's research interests are in the field of perinatal physiology/endocrinology. He has been continuously funded as a principal investigator by the National Institutes of Health since 1978 and received an NIH Merit Award in 1989. He has published over 130 articles and has been the thesis advisor for twelve Ph.D. students during his career.