Individual Presentations:

• Nancy Chescheir, MD
  Grand Rounds |  Carolinas Medical Center | "Maternal-Fetal Surgery for Myelomeningocele"
• Catherine Matthews, MD
  Feb 14, 2013 | Grand Rounds at Wake Med | “Anatomic perineal laceration repair:  How to restore the platinum perineum”
  Feb 20, 2013 | Grand Rounds at UNC | “Ovarian Conservation vs. Removal at Time of Hysterectomy”
• Alison Stuebe, MD
  Feb 18-19, 2013 | Breastfeeding: Turning the Tide in Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
  Feb 22-24, 2013 | Turning the Tide for Birth and Breastfeeding in Warrnambool, VIC, Australia
  Feb 28-Mar 1, 2013 | Breastfeeding: Turning the Tide in Auckland, NZ
  "Does breastfeeding prevent maternal metabolic disease or does maternal metabolic disease prevent breastfeeding?"
  "Mood, mother and infant: Breastfeeding and postpartum depression"
  "Choose your words carefully – Reclaiming breastfeeding as the cultural norm"
  "Breastfeeding for medical professionals – what every doctor needs to know"
• Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH
  Feb 12, 2013 | Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs National Conference | "Preceonception Health" and workshop on UNC's Mothers Matter Postpartum Care Program.

Conference Presentations:

APGO-CREOG, Feb 17 -Mar 2, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona

• Connolly | CREOG Program Directors' School:  "Patient safety, quality improvement, and resident education:  What we need to know "CLER'ly".
• O'Neill, Connolly | Oral Presentation:  Case-Based Curriculum in the OB/GYN Residency Continuity Clinic:  Implementation and Learning Environment Impact
• Connolly, Lorenz, O'Neill |  "Methodology of self-assessment of resident continuity clinic:  A competency-based, systematic approach to improvement."

33rd Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting, Feb 11-12, 2013 in San Francisco, California

Leadership

Dr. Menard and her family

• Menard
  Honored for her service as President of SMFM
  Periviable Birth Workshop – Facilitator, Speaker and Organizer
  Oral Plenary Session moderator
• Chescheir
  Fetal Therapy Presentation and Debate Facilitator
  Gray Journal and Green Journal Reviewer Course

• Ivester
  Global Health forum leader
• Peterson
  Global Health presenter
• Stringer, E
  Global Health presenter
• Stuebe
  Oral Plenary Session judge

Presentations

UNC MFM group at Golden Gate Bridge

• Beamon, Hardisty, Harris, Vora | Poster Presentation
  'Promises and pitfalls of a new technology: a single center experience with noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT)"
• Dorman et al | Poster Presentation
  "IRB review of multisite perinatal studies: characteristics at individual participating sites"
• Eichelberger, Menard | Poster Presentation
  "Training needs in operative obstetrics among first year maternal – fetal medicine fellows"
• Stuebe, Boggess | Poster Presentation
  "Gestational weight gain in excess of IOM guidelines associated with a macrosomia in obese women with GDM"
• Stuebe et al | Poster Presentations
  "Oxytocin receptor polymorphisms, postpartum mood and breastfeeding duration"
  "Adrenomedullin signaling polymorphisms and adverse pregnancy outcomes"
  "Racial and ethnic differences in beliefs about exclusive breastfeeding"
• Stuebe, Strauss, Beamon | Poster Presentation
  "Universal trans-vaginal and trans-abdominal cervical length screening for short cervix"
• Thorp et al | Poster Presentation
  "An optimized measure of chronic stress in pregnancy"
  "An optimized measure of maternal stress is associated with biologic markers of stress and pregnancy outcomes"
• Vora et al
  Poster Presentation | "Antenatal origins of metabolic syndrome in fetuses of obese women"
  Oral Presentation | "Decreased apoptosis in fetuses of obese women: implications for neurodevelopment"