SMFM’s 41st Annual Pregnancy Meeting: Part 2
Contemporary OB/GYN® will cover the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting throughout the week.
We will cover a range of expert sessions, lectures, abstract presentations, and more. Below is a glimpse of our upcoming coverage.
- Augmenting/Replacing Obstetric Comorbidity Index with Labor & Delivery Features Improves Prediction of Severe Maternal Mortality
- Examining the effect of quality initiatives on decreasing racial disparities in maternal morbidity
- Does Vitamin D Prophylaxis decrease the incidence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy?
- Prenatal maternal mental distress impairs newborn amygdala growth and infant neurodevelopment at 18 months
- Placental transfer of SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies from mothers to newborns
View Part 1 of our coverage lineup here.
Contemporary OB/GYN Senior Editor Angie DeRosa gets insight on the current state of COVID-19 from Christina Han, MD, division director of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and member of its COVID-19 task force. Han is an active member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and discusses the issues on behalf of SMFM.
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