Announcements – 2026

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Jan 15, 2026

2026 Danielle Peress Memorial Fund Awards

Drs. Efe Cudjoe, Gregory Kirschen, and Estefania Rivera Mudafort have been selected as the recipients of the 2026 Danielle Peress, MD Memorial Fund Award. Efe Cudjoe, MD, a maternal-fetal medicine fellow at Brown University/Women & Infants, will conduct a study…

Dec 15, 2025

2026 Queenan Global Health Awards

Drs. Lilly Liu, LeAnn Louis, Anna Marie Young, and Shuai Zeng, MM, have been selected as the recipients of the 2026 Queenan Global Health Awards. Lilly Liu, MD, MPH, director of Critical Care Obstetrics at Montefiore Medical Center, and assistant professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine …

Dec 8, 2025

2026 Resident Scholars

The Foundation for SMFM is pleased to announce the third-year residents selected as the 2026 Resident Scholars: Drs. Yadira Bribiesca, Tess Cersonsky, Alicia Davidson, Tiwa Lawal, Symone McClain, Andrea Sanchez Velazquez, Alexa Vercelli, and Lanbo Yang. The program provides these ...

Nov 18, 2025

2026-2029 FSMFM/AAOGF Scholar

We are pleased to announce that Xixi Du Plummer, MD, PhD, has been selected for the 2026-2029 Foundation for SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship for her project entitled, “Transforming Pregnancy Research: A Dual Stem Cell Model to Illuminate the Origins of Preeclampsia.” Dr. Plummer is currently ...