2020 Danielle Peress Memorial Fund Award
Rebecca Post, MD has been selected for the 2020 Danielle Peress, MD Memorial Fund Award for her project, “Immediate Postpartum Glucose Tolerance Test: A Comparison with the Gold Standard.” Dr. Post is a first-year MFM Fellow ...
2020 Quilligan Scholars
The Foundation for SMFM is pleased to announce the third-year residents who have been selected as the 2020 Quilligan Scholars: Drs. Tooba Anwer, Bobby Brar, Jia Jennifer Ding, Natasha Kumar, Gina Milone, Anju Ranjit, Katherine Ryken, and Erinma Ukoha. The program provides these ...
2019 Quality Improvement Research Awards
Drs. Helen Feltovich and David Jackson have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the 2019 Quality Improvement Research Awards. Helen Feltovich, MD (Intermountain Healthcare) was selected for her project: “A CLEAR Road to Quality ...
2020-2023 FSMFM/AAOGF Scholar
Kristin D. Gerson, MD, PhD has been selected for the 2020-2023 Foundation for SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Award for her project entitled, “Decoding the cervicovaginal metabolome-microbiome interface: potential mechanisms of spontaneous preterm birth.” ...
2019 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants
Drs. Angela PH Burgess and Tani Malhotra have been selected as the recipients of the 2019 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Dr. Angela PH Burgess, a third-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, will conduct a research project “Contribution of ...
2019 Reproductive Health Mini-Sabbatical Grants
Drs. David Abel and Leilah Zahedi-Spung have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the 2019 Reproductive Health Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Dr. David Abel is a 2019 Reproductive Health Mini-Sabbatical Award recipient. Dr. Abel will receive four ...
2019 Queenan Global Health Awards
Dr. Martha Tesfalul is the recipient of the Investigator-Initiated Research Project Award for her project “Promoting Freedom from Hardship in Pregnancy in Rural Eritrea by Advancing Clinical Research for Rahwa Maternal Health Agent Program.” She will ...
2019 Bridge Funding Awardee
Andrea G. Edlow, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the recipient of the 2019 Foundation for SMFM Bridge Funding ...
2019 Danielle Peress Memorial Fund Award
Kristin D. Gerson, MD, PhD has been selected for the inaugural 2019 Danielle Peress MD Memorial Fund Award for her project entitled, “Epithelial-mesenchymal transition in the cervicovaginal space: possible biomarkers of spontaneous ...
2018 Queenan Fellows
Drs. D’Angela Pitts and FB “Will” Williams have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 Queenan Fellowships for Global Health. Dr. Pitts, a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Michigan, is the recipient of the Visiting Teaching Fellowship and will spend two ...
2018 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Recipients
Dr. Michael Dombrowski and Dr. Jose Enrique Sanin Blair have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grants. Dr. Dombrowski is a third year MFM fellow at Yale University. He previously completed both OB/GYN ...
2018 Bridge Funding Award Recipient
Dr. Maisa Feghali, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Magee Womens Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, is the recipient of the 2018 Foundation for SMFM Bridge ...
2017 Bridge Fund and SMFM/AAOGF Scholar Recipients
Dr. Emily Miller has been selected for the 2017 ABOG Bridge Fund Award Recipient and Dr. Nandini Raghuraman has been selected for the 2018-2021 Foundation for SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Award. Dr. Emily Miller, Assistant Professor in the ...
2017 Queenan Fellows Selected
Dr. Megan Foeller (International Agency Mentored Research Fellowship) and Dr. Rebekah McCurdy (Visiting Teaching Fellowship) are the 2017 Queenan Fellows. Dr. Foeller, a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at Stanford University, will spend six months in Geneva beginning ...
2017 Bridge Funding Award
The Bridge Funding Award is designed to stabilize a research program of a promising physician scientist in the field of perinatal biology and medicine who has not been successful in obtaining independent research funding or who has a temporary lapse in funding. This award is made ...
2017-2020 SMFM/AAOGF Scholar
Adetola Louis-Jacques, MD has been selected for the SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Award for her work entitled “Lactation and Association with Maternal Gut Microbiome and Epigenetic Programming.” Dr. Louis-Jacques is currently a third year fellow in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University ...
2016 Queenan Fellowships Awarded
The Pregnancy Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2016 Queenan Fellowships for Global Health have been awarded to the following individuals: Dr. Alisa Kachikis, a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Washington, is the recipient of the ...
2016 Bridge Funding Award
Applications are now being accepted for a new bridge grant. This award is made possible with generous support from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Education Foundation. The Pregnancy Foundation Bridge Funding Award is designed to stabilize a research ...
2016 5K Results
Thanks to all who participated in the 5K in Atlanta on February 6! The top 10 finishers were: 1. Jose Pablo Marchili (24:09.22) 2. Catherine Albright (24:22.22) 3. Graham Brumfield (24:46.16) 4. Christina Herrera (25:02.48) 5. Donna Neale (27:22.63) 6. Wendy Kinzler (27:41.15) 7. Bob Silver ...
Honor Your Mentor
We kicked off our 2016 “Honor Your Mentor“ campaign at the annual meeting! If you haven’t donated, please consider honoring your mentor this year with a tax-deductible contribution. You can donate online or by mail. As Mary D’Alton said in her Foundation Update at the SMFM ...
2016 Quilligan Scholars
Aleha Aziz, Michelle Debbink, Jessica Page, Kartik Venkatesh, and Sarah Wernimont are the 2016 Quilligan Scholars. The program provides these future leaders in maternal-fetal medicine with two years of mentoring and educational opportunities. They will be formally recognized after the Resident ...
2015 Queenan Travel Fellowship
Dr. Yusuf Ahmed is the recipient of the 2015 Queenan Travel Fellowship. Dr. Ahmed is a Zambian obstetrician-gynecologist with training in obstetrics, gynecology, neonatology and public health and has experience in the design and implementation of observational studies ...
2016 Pregnancy Foundation/AAOGF Scholarship Award
Jennifer Bushman Gilner, MD, PhD has been selected for the 2016 Pregnancy Foundation/AAOGF Scholarship Award for her work entitled “The role of regulatory T cells in the maternal-fetal rejection phenotype of preterm birth.” Dr. Gilner is ...
2015 Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grant Recipient
Niamh Condon, DO is the 2015 recipient of the Garite Mini-Sabbatical Grant. Dr. Condon is a third year MFM Fellow at Pinnacle Health Hospital in Harrisburg, PA. She will use the mini-sabbatical grant to complete a four-week rotation with ...
