Announcements

Jun 3, 2024

2024 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants (Spring Cycle)

Drs. Lorena Carolina Martinez-King and Lauren Walheim have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Lorena Carolina Martinez-King, MD, MAS, a second-year maternal-fetal medicine fellow at the University of Washington, will conduct a study, “Advanced training …

May 6, 2024

2024 Bridge Funding Awardee

Dr. Yalda Afshar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA is the recipient of the 2024 Foundation for SMFM Bridge Funding Award …

Jan 15, 2024

IMPACT Preterm Birth Disparities Award

Sarahn Wheeler, MD, MHSc, a practicing maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Duke University Medical Center, is the inaugural recipient of the IMPACT Preterm Birth Disparities Award for her project REDUCing the Disproportionate RatE...

Dec 15, 2023

2024 Danielle Peress Memorial Fund Awards

Pictured above (left to right): Drs. Laurie Griffin and Claudia Ibarra have been selected as the recipients of the 2024 Danielle Peress, MD Memorial Fund Award. Laurie Griffin, MD, PhD, a second-year maternal-fetal medicine ...

Nov 14, 2023

2024 Resident Scholars

The Foundation for SMFM is pleased to announce the third-year residents who have been selected as the 2024 Resident Scholars: Drs. Kathryn Anderson, Nabila Azeem, Nafiah Enayet, LeAnn Louis, Megan Raymond, Emily Root, Monica Sosa, and Anna Marie Young. The program provides these ...

Nov 1, 2023

2023 Queenan Global Health Awards

Drs. Sarah Boudova, Jessica Chung, Anar Gojayev, and Andrea Pembe have been selected as the recipients of the 2023 Queenan Global Health Awards. Sarah Boudova, MD, PhD, a second-year maternal-fetal medicine fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...

Sep 4, 2023

2024-2027 FSMFM/AAOGF Scholar

We are pleased to announce that Beth Pineles, MD, PhD, has been selected for the 2024-2027 Foundation for SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship for her project entitled, “DERESTRICT: De-implementation of activity restriction for preterm birth prevention in high-risk pregnancy.” Dr. Pineles is currently ...

Jun 1, 2023

2023 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants (Spring Cycle)

Drs. Anjali Nambiar and Oxana Zarudskaya have been selected as recipients of the 2023 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Anjali Nambiar, MD, a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will conduct a study, “Advanced training …

May 2, 2023

FSMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Applications Due July 3

The Foundation for SMFM is now accepting applications from SMFM member fellows for the FSMFM/AAOGF Scholarship. Our premier three-year research training grant is designed for future academic physician leaders ...

May 1, 2023

2022 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants (Fall Cycle)

Drs. Felicia LeMoine and Lihong Mo have been selected as recipients of the 2022 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Felicia LeMoine, MD, a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at the MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University Program in Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected for her project “International …

Mar 31, 2023

2023 Danielle Peress Memorial Fund Awards

Pictured above (left to right): Drs. Jessica Morgan, Natalie Neff, and Rachel Ruderman have been selected as the recipients of the 2023 Danielle Peress, MD Memorial Fund Award. Jessica Morgan, MD, a second-year maternal-fetal medicine fellow ...

Jan 20, 2023

2022 Queenan Global Health Awards

Drs. Yaneve Fonge, Lilly Liu, Anju Ranjit, and Seema Chopra have been selected as the recipients of the 2022 Queenan Global Health Awards. Yaneve Fonge, MD, a second-year maternal-fetal medicine fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, is a recipient …

Jan 9, 2023

2023-2026 FSMFM/AAOGF Scholar

We are pleased to announce that Melissa Wong, MD, MHS, has been selected for the 2023-2026 Foundation for SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship for her project entitled, “Using Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) to Build an Integrated Real-Time Delivery Predictor.” Dr. Wong is currently …

Dec 15, 2022

2023 Resident Scholars

The Foundation for SMFM is pleased to announce the third-year residents who have been selected as the 2023 Resident Scholars: Drs. Ally Gallagher, Priyanka Gaur, Eniola Ibirogba, Lauren Murphy, Natalie Poliektov, Adam Schettler, Jecca Steinberg, and Megan Stevenson. The program provides these ...

Dec 1, 2022

2022 Bridge Funding Awardee

Dr. Mark Clapp, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of the 2022 Foundation for SMFM Bridge Funding Award …

Jul 15, 2022

2022 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants (Spring Cycle)

CeCe Cheng, MD, a first-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants for her project entitled “Complex …

May 2, 2022

July 1 Deadline Application Now Open

The Foundation for SMFM is now accepting applications from SMFM members for the SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship. Our premier three-year research training grant is designed for future academic physician leaders ...

Feb 22, 2021

July 1 Deadline Applications Now Open

The Foundation for SMFM is now accepting applications from SMFM members for the following programs: SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Our premier three-year research training grant is designed for future academic physician leaders ...

Dec 15, 2020

2021 Danielle Peress Memorial Fund Awards

Pictured above (left to right): Drs. Emily Hamburg-Shields and Danielle Prentice have been selected as the recipients of the 2021 Danielle Peress, MD Memorial Fund Award. Emily Hamburg-Shields, MD, PhD a first-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow ...

Nov 2, 2020

2021-2024 FSMFM Scholar

We are pleased to announce that Courtney Townsel, MD, MSc, has been selected for the 2021-2024 Foundation for SMFM Scholarship Award for her project entitled, “Placental Epigenetic Regulation of Fetal Opioid Exposure.” Dr. Townsel is currently ...

Sep 21, 2020

2020 Queenan Global Health Awards

Drs. Cassandra Duffy, Beth Pineles, and Angela Stephens have been selected as the recipients of the 2020 Queenan Global Health Awards. Cassandra Duffy, MD, MPH, a Maternal-Fetal Medicine attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical ...

Sep 18, 2020

2020 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants

Drs. Christina Ackerman and Jessian Muñoz have been selected as the recipients of the 2020 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Christina Ackerman, MD, a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, will conduct a project “Advanced Training ...

Sep 17, 2020

2020 Reproductive Health Mini-Sabbatical

Adam Crosland, MD, MPH, has received a Reproductive Health Mini-Sabbatical Grant for his research proposal, “University of California Abortion Registry (UCAR): A novel multi-site collaborative examining the association between high-risk ...

Feb 24, 2020

2020 Bridge Funding Awardee

Michael House, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, is the recipient of the 2020 Foundation for SMFM Bridge Funding Award sponsored by the American Board of Obstetrics and ...