Description of Research Expertise:
Areas of research interest include: 1) diabetes in pregnancy, 2) obesity,
3) maternal metabolism
Selected Publications:
Maeve Hopkins, Lorraine Dugoff, Celeste Durnwald, Laura Havrilesky, Sarah Dotters-Katz: Cell-free DNA for Down syndrome screening in morbidly obese women: Is it a cost-effective strategy?
Poster Presentation, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, Las Vegas, NV : 2019.
Sindhu K. Srinivas, Celeste Durnwald, Laura Line, Melissa Patti, Melissa Bucher, Shayna Cunningham, Valerie Riis: Safe Start”: A community health worker program that improves perinatal outcomes in high risk women
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vol. 220, Issue 1, S208
Published in issue: January 2019 Poster presentation, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, Las Vegas, NV : 2019.
Maeve Hopkins, Nathanael Koelper, Whitney Burns, Celeste Durnwald, Mary Sammel, Lorraine Dugoff: Cell-free DNA fetal fraction and risk for gestational diabetes
Poster presentation, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, Las Vegas, NV : 2019.
Teefey CP, Durnwald CP, Srinivas SK, Levine LD.: Adverse Maternal Outcomes Differ between Obese and Nonobese Women with Severe Preeclampsia.
Am J Perinatol 36(1):74-78. : 2019.
Reforma L, Paidas Teefey C, Durnwald C, Srinivas S, Sammel M, Wang E: Late third trimester ultrasound improves accuracy of predicted birthweight in women with class III obesity. Poster, ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting. Austin, TX, : 2018.
Durnwald C, Downes K, Leite R, Elovitz MA, Parry S, Maternal Child Health Research Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: Predicting persistent impaired glucose tolerance in GDM women: the role of hsCRP and adiponectin. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews 34(2) : 2018.
Teefey CP, Reforma L, Levine LD, Srinivas SK, Durnwald CP: Risk factors associated with cesarean delivery after induction of labor in women with class III Obesity. Poster presentation, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, annual meeting, Dallas, TX, : 2018.
Burns WR, Koelper N, Sammel MD, Durnwald CP: Validation of a breastfeeding history questionnaire for the prediction of in-hospital formula supplementation in multiparous women. Poster presentation, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, annual meeting, Dallas, TX, : 2018.
Durnwald CP: Fibroblast growth factor 21 and metabolic dysfunction in women with a prior glucose intolerant pregnancy. Poster presentation, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, annual meeting, Dallas, TX, : 2018.
Durnwald C: Gestational Diabetes: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Complications Diabetes and Nutrition, 1st edition, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics guide to Pregnancy, : 2017 in press.