SMFM 40th Annual Meeting

Numerous faculty, fellows, residents, and medical students from Columbia University are presenting at this year's Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine meeting, taking place from February 3-8, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. All of the Columbia-affiliated scientific presentations featured at the meeting are displayed below. 

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Poster Session I, 10:30am - 12:00pm

• Timothy Wen, MD: (155) Hospital admissions 2 to 9 months after delivery among women with adult congenital heart disease
• Mark Hehir, MD: (156) Clinical management of deliveries resulting in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
• James Lasky / Roxane Handal-Orefice, MD: (175) Effect of body size on preeclampsia risk-reducing potential of low-dose aspirin among high-risk pregnant women
• Desmond Sutton, MD / Roxane Handal-Orefice: (289) The effect of chronic hypertension on deterioration of umbilical artery Dopplers in fetal growth restriction
• Timothy Wen, MD / Nicole Krenitsky, MD: (300) Loss of health insurance and maternal hospitalizations after childbirth
• Timothy Wen, MD / Sbaa Syeda, MD: (301) Postpartum readmissions for cardiac indications among women without a history of cardiac disease

Poster Session II, 3:45pm - 5:15pm

• Jean-Ju Sheen, MD: (353) Hospital-level rates of indicated induction and risk for cesarean delivery
• Adina Goldberger, MD: (373) An evaluation of maternal early warning systems to predict specific maternal morbidity patterns
• Sbaa Syeda, MD: (401) Indicated induction and risk for cesarean
• Fernanda C. da Graca Polubriaginof​, MD,  PhD: (403) Impact of quality of race and ethnicity data in the assessment of maternal health disparities
• Ariel Levy, MD: (416) The effect of cervical manipulation on fetal fibronectin result: a systematic review
• Jessica Spiegelman, MD: (429) Risk for developing chronic hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes after preeclampsia; (430) Remote postpartum blood pressure surveillance for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a randomized clinical trial
• Timothy Wen, MD / Sbaa Syeda, MD: (441) Readmission risk after cesarean hysterectomy based on the presence or absence of placenta accreta
• Caitlin Baptiste, MD: (513) Defining oligohydramnios by MVP instead of AFI: Impact on indication for delivery at term
• Nicole Krenitsky, MD / Timothy Wen, MD: (521) Influenza-associated hospital admissions and ICU-level interventions during pregnancy

Oral Concurrent Session 3 (Labor), 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

• Whitney Booker, MD: (38) Quantitative Activity Levels and Gestational Age at Delivery: A Prospective Cohort Study among Nulliparous Women

Friday, February 7, 2020

Oral Session II (Fellows Plenary), 8:00am - 10:00am

• Adina Goldberger, MD: (46) Wrong patient orders in obstetrics: An unrecognized patient safety risk

Poster Session III, 10:30am - 12:00pm

• Ariel Levy, MD / Roxane Handal-Orefice, MD: (637) Does time of day of betamethasone administration affect neonatal outcomes?
• Timothy Wen, MD / Eve Overton, MD: (684) Continuation of psychiatric medications during pregnancy
• Timothy Wen, MD / Sbaa Syeda, MD / Adina Kern-Goldberger, MD: (686) Socioeconomic and racial disparities in intensive care level utilization in a national sample
• Jessica Spiegelman, MD / Roxane Handal-Orefice: (691) Do pregnant women have lower than expected measles antibody titers?
• Eve Overton, MD / Caitlin Baptiste, MD: (729) The association of race, stress and preterm birth in educated women with prior preterm birth
• Adina Goldberger, MD: (775) The predictive value of tachycardia thresholds to identify maternal morbidity

Poster Session IV, 3:45pm - 5:15pm

• Margaret Bogardus: (786) Racial and ethnic disparities in uterotonic administration for uterine atony
• Maria Andrikopoulou, MD: (790) Use of multiple concurrent preterm birth interventions among patients with private versus Medicaid insurance
• Roxane Handal-Orefice, MD: (818) Risk-reducing potential of aspirin among low-risk nulliparous, obese women
• Nigel Madden, MD: (947) Latency period after preterm premature rupture of membranes: singletons versus twins
• Francisca Chou: (948) Maternal education and childhood neurodevelopment in women at high risk for preterm delivery
• Sbaa Syeda, MD: (974) Risk Factors for the Development of Intra-Amniotic Sludge
• Barouyr Ajemian, MD / Roxane Handal-Orefice, MD: (993) Quantitative Blood Loss: A Potential Screening Tool to Prevent Unnecessary Postpartum Blood Draws
• Timothy Wen, MD / Nicole Krenitsky, MD: (995) Maternal race and risk for uninsured antepartum and postpartum hospitalizations
• Timothy Wen, MD / Maria Andrikopoulou, MD: (996) Receipt of antihypertensive medications up to five years after pregnancy among women with preeclampsia
• Thomas Lee, MD / Roxane Handal-Orefice, MD: (998) Ultrasound reporting software utilization and EMR connectivity in MFM | The SMFM Operational Benchmarking Survey

Oral Concurrent Session IV (Infectious Disease and Neonatology), 1:15pm - 1:30pm

• Cassandra Duffy, MD: (47) A randomized trial of the bactericidal effects of chlorhexidine vs. povidone iodine vaginal preparation

Oral Concurrent Session V (Morbidity and Mortality), 2:15 - 2:30pm

• Maria Andrikopoulou, MD: (61) Hospital-level cesarean and operative delivery rate and risk for adverse outcomes

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Poster Session V, 10:45am - 12:15pm

• Timothy Wen, MD / Adina Goldberger, MD: (1018) Readmission and associated morbidity after complicated cesarean delivery
• Margaret Bogardus / Timothy Wen, MD: (1049) Racial disparities in peripartum hysterectomy and associated severe morbidity
• Adina Goldberger, MD: (1058) The predictive value of oxygen saturation and blood pressure monitoring to detect maternal morbidity; (1059) Optimizing maternal early warning systems: Can we reduce false alarms and still keep patients safe?
• Timothy Wen, MD: (1095) Postpartum readmissions among women with adult congenital heart disease
• Eve Overton, MD / Caitlin Baptiste, MD: (1101) The association of education, maternal stress and recurrent preterm birth risk
• Jessica Spiegelman, MD: (1141) Diagnosis of preeclampsia with severe features with informatics data versus billing codes
• Aleha Aziz, MD: (1185) Racial disparities in acquired cardiac disease during postpartum readmissions