Third-year resident, Sarah Wernimont, MD, PhD, was named a 2016 Quilligan Scholar by the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine and The Pregnancy Foundation. She is one of five residents in the United States to receive this honor.

Preeclampsia is a cardiovascular disorder that generally occurs late in pregnancy and causes high blood pressure leading to a number of complications. Preeclampsia affects between 5 and 7 percent of all pregnancies in the United States.

For women with high-risk pregnancies, labor and delivery can be complex, and two separate studies here explored the mechanisms of induction labor failure in obese women, and the skin microbiome pathology at the incision site for cesarean section.