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Professor and Chair
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MSc, is board certified in both Obstetrics/Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and focuses on obstetric complications--specifically, preterm birth prevention in addition to gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, chronic hypertension, thrombophilias, and anemia. She currently serves as Samuel SC Yen Endowed Chair and Professor of OBGYN at UCSD.
Dr. Gyamfi is also an NIH-funded researcher working on multiple clinical trials. She is currently the lead PI of an NICHD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network funded follow-up study of the Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids (ALPS) study, which assesses peripartum influences of childhood neurodevelopment with current funding in that area. She also led the parent trial, a randomized, clinical trial, where women at risk for late preterm delivery were randomized to betamethasone or placebo, which was co-funded by the NHLBI and conducted through the infrastructure of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network of the NICHD. She has led and participated in multiple clinical trials related to obstetric and maternal complications. She also works to improve maternal morbidity and mortality and obstetric complications through perinatal epidemiology.
Aside from such endeavors, Dr. Gyamfi served as a member on the SMFM Board and SMFM Publications Committee, where she helps write guidelines on clinical practice for MFM-subspecialists. She is also a founding member of the SMFM Research Committee. She has been selected as a faculty member for the annual NICHD conference directed at stimulating research interests and collaboration between MFM and Neonatal fellows-in-trainings, and has served as Chair of the AAP/Abbott sponsored Santa Fe conference for Neonatal and Perinatal Fellows. She has been invited to speak about her research locally, nationally, and internationally, and is a member of AGOS.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Thursday, February 9, 2023
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM