{"id":5650,"date":"2024-11-01T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=5650"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:46:05","slug":"lauren-marie-kucirka-md-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/people\/lauren-marie-kucirka-md-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Marie Kucirka, MD, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Division:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/5divisions-and-services\/maternal-fetal-medicine\/\">Maternal Fetal Medicine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Personal Biography:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I aim to provide comprehensive, evidence-based care tailored to the individual needs and values of my patients.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellowship &#8211; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 2021-2024 (Maternal Fetal Medicine)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Residency &#8211; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; 2017-2021 (Obstetrics and Gynecology)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Doctor of Philosophy &#8211; Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore (Epidemiology)<\/li>\n<li>Doctor of Medicine &#8211; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; 2011-2017<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Science &#8211; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 2001-2005 (Anthropology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"color: inherit;font-size: 24px\">Recent Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of recent publications, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=kucirka+l&amp;sort=date\"><strong>Dr. Kucirka&#8217;s PubMed listing.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7387,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[88,43],"class_list":["post-5650","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-department-of-obstetrics-and-gynecology","ud_division-maternal-fetal-medicine-clinical-providers","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Kucirka","ud_first_name":"Lauren","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":false,"ud_email":"","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Assistant Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine "},{"ud_title":"Assistant Professor, School of Data Science and Society"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/11\/Lauren-Kucirka.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/11\/Lauren-Kucirka-240x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/11\/Lauren-Kucirka.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/11\/Lauren-Kucirka.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/11\/Lauren-Kucirka-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry\/5650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ud_entry"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ud_division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_division?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}