Mission Statement:
The mission of the Pregnancy and Perinatal Research Center (PPRC) is to promote, manage and conduct high-quality clinical research that involves obstetrical patients in the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), including patients that are considering pregnancy, pregnant patients, postpartum patients, and their babies. The PPRC operates in collaboration with the Women's Health Clinical Research Center (WHCRC) and the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health (CRRWH).
Aims:
- To better understand exposures and complex disease states that adversely affect maternal and child health, including disparities in access to care and perinatal outcomes among our most vulnerable patients
- To investigate and validate biomarkers of disease states
- To unravel pathways and pathogenesis that will produce feasible and biological targets for future interventions to reduce maternal-fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality
- To test therapies to decrease adverse maternal and child outcomes
Samuel Parry, MD
Director
parry@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-662-6913
Fax: 215-573-5408
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Silverstein Building, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Clinical Studies
The Pregnancy and Perinatal Research Center supports a wide range of clinical research and is an active clinical center in the NICHD's Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. Active studies include:
- Effects on long-COVID acquired during pregnancy (MFMU Network)
- CPAP to treat sleep apnea during pregnancy (MFMU Network)
- Out-patient Foley catheter for induction of labor
- Remote fetal monitoring
- 3D ultrasound to assess placental volume
- Alternative prenatal care models, including the use of patient navigators
- Implementation of a uniform induction of labor protocol
- Ideal time for delivery in patients with gestational diabetes
- Postpartum care for patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
If you have any questions, additional information can be obtained by contacting:
Meaghan McCabe, MPH
Director, Clinical Research
Phone 215-349-5277
meaghan.mccabe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Beth Norton, MPH, MBE
Associate Director, Clinical Research
elizabeth.norton@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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