SMFM 2025 Pregnancy Meeting

Many faculty, fellows, residents, and medical students from Columbia University are presenting at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's 2025 Pregnancy Meeting, taking place from January 27 - February 1. All of the Columbia-affiliated scientific presentations featured at the meeting are displayed below.

 

Poster Presentations

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Poster Session 1, 10:30am - 12:30pm

  • Eve Overton (presenting), Gabriela F. Tessler, Brittany Arditi, Maria Andrikopoulou, Alexandre Buckley de Meritens, Alexander M. Friedman, Mirella Mourad. Poster 196. Cost Drivers in Inpatient Care for Placenta Accreta Spectrum: A National Analysis
  • John Perino (presenting), Lilly Liu (presenting), Anita LaSala, Jason Wright, Jennifer Haythe, Sonia Tolani, Mary D'Alton, Stephanie Purisch. Poster 267. Management of Incidental Cardiac Disease Findings on Screening Maternal Echocardiograms for Advanced Maternal Age
  • Julie Trahan (presenting), Gabriela F. Tessler, Yongmei Huang, Jason Wright, Alexander Friedman. Poster 278. Maternal Morbidity Trends Among Abortion-Banned States Following Dobbs v. Jackson: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

Poster Session 2, 4pm - 6pm

  • Bree Arditi (presenting), Rachel Herz-Roiphe, Alexander M. Friedman. Poster 441. Pregnancy Under Fire: Disparities in Firearm-Related Injuries During Pregnancy in the United States, 2017-2021
  • Mariam Ayyash (presenting). Poster 549. Physiologic Treatment of Mild Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy Outcomes
  • Noelia Zork (presenting), Qi Yan. Poster 582. Basal insulin type and neonatal outcomes: a secondary analysis of the MOMPOD trial
  • Whitney Booker (presenting), Eliza C. Miller, Uma M. Reddy, Ying Kuen K. Cheung. Poster 657. Automated unattended office BP: is your clinician raising your blood pressure?

Friday, January 31, 2025

Poster Session 3, 10:30am - 12:30pm

  • Danruo Zhong (presenting), Grace Liu, Khadija R. Jones, Elizabeth Werner, Catherine E. Monk. Poster 736. The Rate of Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Newborn Head Circumference
  • Gaby Tessler (presenting), Noelle Breslin, Russell S. Miller. Poster 762. TTTS on TikTok: news or noise?
  • Helen Gomez Slagle (presenting), Yongmei Huang, Uma Reddy, Alexander Friedman. Poster 771. Outcomes in Vaginal versus Cesarean Periviable Breech Delivery: A 5-year, Propensity Score–Matched Study
  • Geeta Rao (presenting), Christy Gandhi, Russell S. Miller, Meghan Angley, Rosalie Ingrassia, Lynn L. Simpson, Noelle Breslin. Poster 833. Association of inter-twin growth discordance >25% with fetosocpic laser surgery outcomes in twin-twin transfusion syndrome
  • Geeta Rao (presenting), Christy Gandhi, Noelle Breslin, Meghan Angley, Rosalie Ingrassia, Lynn L. Simpson, Russell S. Miller. Poster 834. Identifying optimal discordance cutoff for predicting donor survival after fetosocpic laser for twin-twin transfusion syndrome

Poster Session 4, 4pm - 6pm

  • Geeta Rao (presenting), Mary E. D'Alton, Alexander M. Friedman, Noelia Zork. Poster 1095. Intellectual disability as a risk factor for adverse outcomes among pregnant people with diabetes
  • Julie Trahan (presenting), Qi Yan, Noelia Zork. Poster 1098. Risk Factors for Unplanned Cesarean Delivery Among Pregnancies with Preexisting Diabetes

Oral Presentations

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Oral Concurrent 3: Ultrasound and Genetics, 1:30pm - 4pm

  • Bree Arditi (presenting); Caitlin D. Baptiste; Jessica L. Giordano; Rachel Herz-Roiphe; Vaidehi Jobanputra; Ronald J. Wapner: Abstract 29, Beyond the Fetus: Unveiling Maternal Health Risks Through Prenatal Genome Sequencing

Oral Concurrent 2: Clinical Obstetrics and Quality, 1:30pm - 4pm

  • MFMU; Adam K. Lewkowitz (presenting); Mariam Ayyash: Abstract 22, Tranexamic acid prophylaxis during cesarean delivery among patients with and without hypertension

Oral Concurrent 1: Equity, Public Health, and Policy, 1:30pm - 4pm

  • Hooman Azad (presenting); Dana Goin; Lisa Nathan; Dena Goffman; Uma M. Reddy; Danielle Laraque-Arena; Mary E. D'Alton: Abstract 14, Homicide and Suicide: The Leading Cause of Maternal Death, and How Firearm Legislation Affects It

Friday, January 31, 2025

Oral Plenary 2: Fellows Plenary, 8am - 10am

  • Helen Gomez Slagle (presenting); Shai Bejerano; Russell S. Miller; Dena Goffman; Mary E. D'Alton; Mirella Mourad: Abstract 39, Methylergonovine to Decrease Blood Loss During Cesarean Delivery in Twins: A Triple-Blinded Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial

Oral Concurrent 6: Prematurity and Newborn, 1:30pm - 4pm

  • MFMU; Tracy A. Manuck (presenting): Abstract 73, Pro-inflammatory vaginal cytokines, early PTB, and infectious morbidity in patients with asymptomatic cervical shortening

Oral Concurrent 5: Hypertension, 1:30pm - 4pm

  • Geeta Rao (presenting); Mary E. D'Alton; Alexander M. Friedman; Noelia Zork: Abstract 66, Adverse outcomes during delivery hospitalizations among patients with an intellectual or developmental disability diagnosis

Postgraduate Courses

Monday, January 27, 2025

  • Eric Forman (Presenter), Clinically Relevant Prenatal Genetics Updates for the Practicing Maternal Fetal Medicine Provider
    • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Mosaic Embryos Debate: To Transfer or Not to Transfer

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

  • Stephanie Purisch (Chair) & Tom Kishkovich (Presenter), The HEART of the Matter: Cardio-Obstetrics for the MFM Specialist
    • 8:10 AM - 8:30 AM Understanding the Underpinnings: Cardiac Physiology in Pregnancy and Preconception Risk Assessment
    • 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM Decompensation of Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve with Severe Aortic Regurgitation: a Case of Valve-in-Valve TAVR in Pregnancy
    • 4:25 PM - 4:35 PM Cardiac Bundle: Educating the Masses
  • Uma Reddy (Presenter), Fetal Growth Restriction: Consensus and Controversies presented jointly with the ISUOG
    • 8:10 AM - 8:35 AM Genetic Evaluation in Pregnancies with FGR
  • Jean-Ju Sheen (Chair) & Aleha Aziz (Presenter), Needleworks: A Hands-on Workshop For Ultrasound Guided Needle Procedures
    • 1:05 PM - 1:30 PM Needle Guidance Basics
    • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Targeting Tasks
    • 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Simulations 1: Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, or In-utero Stenting
    • 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Simulations 2: Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, or In-utero Stenting
    • 4:15 PM - 4:50 PM Simulations 3: Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, or In-utero Stenting

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

  • Jean-Ju Sheen (Chair) & Aleha Aziz (Presenter), Needleworks: A Hands-on Workshop For Ultrasound Guided Needle Procedures
    • 8:05 AM - 8:30 AM Needle Guidance Basics
    • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM Targeting Tasks
    • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Simulations 1: Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, or In-utero Stenting
    • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Simulations 2: Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, or In-utero Stenting
    • 11:15 AM - 11:50 AM Simulations 3: Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling, or In-utero Stenting
  • Ronald Wapner (Chair), Maternal Fetal Precision Medicine: From Early Diagnosis to Targeted Fetal Therapy