PQF Legacy Award
NEW! The Foundation has introduced the PQF Legacy Award, made possible by a generous gift from the former Perinatal Quality Foundation to the Foundation for SMFM. Following the PQF’s closure in early 2024, this new award celebrates and extends its legacy.
Aligned with the former PQF’s mission, the award will support projects focused on evaluating and enhancing the quality of care and patient safety across various areas of obstetrics. This includes, but is not limited to, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care, fetal medicine, maternal complications, obstetric ultrasound, and reproductive genetics.
Applications are due September 15, and the maximum award amount is $25,000. A blank biosketch template for the application is available here.
PQF Legacy Award Recipient
2025
Raina Meka, MD
"RAPID-PPH: Real-Time Risk Assessment and Prophylactic Interventions for Decreasing Postpartum Hemorrhage"
Dr. Raina Meka and colleagues at WashU Medicine in Saint Louis, MO, project aims to reduce their historically high rate of postpartum hemorrhage by incorporating real-time automated risk factor alerts into the EHR and implementing high-dose oxytocin prophylaxis for patients at medium or high risk.
