Dr. John R. Caughron is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who received his MD degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1960. He completed his internship at the St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, and began residency in obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Chicago. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1962 and served as a general medical officer and battalion surgeon during the Cuban missile crisis. After completing his military service Dr. Caughron returned to Oklahoma and completed his residency at the University of Oklahoma. For ten years he was in private practice in Oklahoma City before rejoining the Army in 1979. He spent three years as a staff physician at the Army Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany and was then assigned to the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco where he spent ten years, first as assistant residency program director and later, following a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Walter Reed, as chief of the endocrinology/infertility service.