Obstetrics: Recent Episodes
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Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD
Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar
Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.
Host: Jessica Ailani, MD
Guest: Dawn C. Buse, PhD
Upwards of 47 million people in the U.S. suffer from migraines, often accompanied by widespread personal, professional, and social disabilities. Though a similar prevalence is initially observed between men and women, by mid-adulthood the prevalence of migraine is 3-fold greater in women than men. Newer agents, both injectable and oral and focused on modulating the calcitonin gene-related peptide pathway, have emerged and have proven highly effective in managing both acute and chronic migraine. Join Drs. Jessica Ailani and Dawn Buse as they provide an overview of the changing landscape of migraine therapy, especially as it impacts women across different life-stages.
Guest: Candace T. Westgate, DO, MPH, FACOG
Guest: Ethan D. Schram, MD, FACP
Early detection of cancer is essential to reducing the significant burdens associated with it. When cancer is detected at earlier stages, treatments can be initiated sooner, resulting in improved outcomes, reduced morbidity and mortality, and better quality of life. While the implementation of current screening guidelines has resulted in an overall reduction in cancer deaths, only 25 percent of cancers are diagnosed using traditional screening modalities, leaving much room for improvement. Blood-based multi-cancer early detection, or MCED, tests that can screen from four to greater than 50 types of cancers have been developed to complement the population-based screening of asymptomatic individuals. At the spring 2023 American Association for Cancer Research, also known as AACR, American Society of Clinical Oncology, or ASCO, and National Comprehensive Cancer Network, orNCCN, annual conferences, a multitude of data was presented on MCEDs, including real-world data, clinical trial data, novel MCEDs in development, MCED accuracy, and the inherent health equity challenges that their implementation will face. This educational activity has two parts. Dr. Candace Westgate delivers an MCED Primer designed to build primary care clinicians’ knowledge about the science of MCEDs and how to implement their use in primary care practice, followed by chapterized discussions between …
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci
Renowned international expert Dr. Roberto Romero joins Dr. Lee Shulman to walk us through maternal anti-fetal rejection. Find out about its pathophysiology, mechanisms of disease, approach to diagnosis, and potential treatment so that you can broaden your understanding and improve the care you provide.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Alexandra Benachi, MD, PhD
Guest: Julien Zuber, MD, PhD
Program Chairman:
Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci
Chief, Perinatology Research Branch
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics
Division of Intramural Research
NICHD/NIH/DHHS
Editor-in-Chief for Obstetrics
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
There exists a long-standing controversy about drawing parallels between transplant and pregnancy immunology. Listen in as Drs. Alexandra Benachi, Julien Zuber, and Lee Shulman discuss why these considerations are so important for you and your colleagues, patients, and their families to understand. Discover how links between kidney transplantation and maternal anti-fetal rejection may impact your practice and spark new pathways in medicine.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Masja de Haas, MD, PhD
Program Chairman:
Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci
Chief, Perinatology Research Branch
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics
Division of Intramural Research
NICHD/NIH/DHHS
Editor-in-Chief for Obstetrics
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Neonatal alloimmune neutropenia (NAIN or NIN) is a neutrophil blood group antagonism similar to HDFN and FNAIT. Its presentation varies clinically and ranges from asymptomatic to severe manifestations such as sepsis and meningitis. Listen in as Drs. Masja de Haas and Lee Shulman discuss clinical clues that should catch your eye. Discover novel yet simple ways to be vigilant and make the right clinical calls.
Host: Floor J. Backes, MD
Follow along as Dr. Floortje Backes walks us through a patient case and demonstrates the shared decision-making process of selecting an appropriate maintenance treatment regimen for advanced ovarian cancer.
Host: Lee Shulman MD, FACOG, FACMG
Guest: Andrea S. Lukes, MD, MHSc, FACOG
Are you currently considering GnRH antagonists as first-line therapy, or are you waiting for patients to fail other endometriosis treatment approaches first? Drs. Andrea Lukes and Lee Shulman discuss how the advent of effective GnRH antagonists is evolving the care of endometriosis. Are you ready to provide patients with the clinical outcomes they seek while balancing the benefits of medical and surgical approaches?
Host: David L. Eisenberg, MD, MPH, FACOG
Intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants, also called long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), are the most effective reversible contraceptive methods. The major advantage of LARCs compared with other reversible contraceptive methods is that they do not require ongoing effort on the part of the patient for long-term, effective use. In addition, after the device is removed, the return of fertility is rapid. Join Dr. David Eisenberg has he discusses when LARCs should be recommended as a first-line contraceptive choice and when they should not. He further details how to approach a shared decision-making discussion with patients about their contraceptive options.
Host: Michael Krychman, MD
For affected women, acute vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) brings with it a significant health burden, and the substantial morbidity and poor quality of life associated with recurrent disease (RVVC) requires improved diagnosis, management, and quality of care. Join Dr. Michael Krychman as he dissects the barriers to managing VVC and RVVC and provides insights on diagnosis and management based on guidelines, plus an overview of innovative therapeutic agents. The unique qualities of the current and emerging therapeutic interventions may well represent a significant step forward in how you manage these challenging infections.
Host: Anita H. Clayton, MD
Guest: Jennifer L. Payne, MD
This animated Women’s Health 2022 lecture features a discussion between Drs. Jennifer Payne and Anita Clayton who clearly highlight the importance of screening for perinatal and postpartum depression (PPD). Our experts delve into the critical importance of proactively diagnosing and treating women during the various stages of pregnancy and review the latest therapies that specifically target PPD. Find out how these therapies compare to traditional antidepressants and how PPD treatment can improve the health and quality of life for patients and their families. What changes can you implement into your clinical practice to improve maternal and infant health?
Host: Hugh S. Taylor, MD
Endometriosis is challenging to diagnose, with approximately 6 to 11 years from symptom onset to definitive diagnosis and treatment. Many medical providers are not adequately familiar with the disease, and this, coupled with historically limited medical options, has resulted in surgical approaches often being considered as the first treatment option. Join us as Dr. Hugh Taylor discusses how this landscape is changing to one in which safe and effective medical options can now offer improved outcomes for our patients with endometriosis.
Host: Andrew M. Kaunitz, MD, FACOG
By the age of 50, ultrasound imaging demonstrates that 70%-80% of women have fibroids. Uterine fibroids are associated with disability similar to other chronic diseases. They can even lead to lower vitality and social function than are experienced by women with breast cancer. Fibroid-related hysterectomies account for 45% of all US hysterectomies, but a surgical approach is no longer one size fits many. Join Dr. Andrew Kaunitz as he describes the clinical presentations of fibroids and how newly emergent medical options greatly improve fibroid-related symptoms, provide time to consider other alternatives, and can be used to bridge the transition to menopause.
Host: Kara B. Markham, MD
What are the essential steps in managing hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN)? How soon after “the cord has been cut” does newborn care transfer from the maternal-fetal medicine specialist and ob-gyn to the pediatric team? At a recent satellite symposium of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. James Bussel, Dr. Kara Markham, and Bethany Weathersby presented the latest data regarding current and emerging practice patterns and highlighted the critical need for improved understanding and multidisciplinary collaboration in the area of HDFN. Tune in to hear Dr. Markham summarize how diagnosis, care, and treatment have evolved—plus insights on how these might change the way you practice.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: James B. Bussel, MD
Program Chairman:
As the platelet equivalent of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is an uncommon yet complex and life-threatening bleeding disorder that results from incompatibility between mother and baby for platelet-specific antigens. Despite relatively normal platelet function, in the setting of severe thrombocytopenia, intracranial hemorrhage is a consequence. Drs. Shulman and Bussel discuss advances in management strategies and concrete steps you can take to lower the risk and stop the progression of this disorder in your patients.
Host: Lee Shulman MD, FACOG, FACMG
Guest: Ayman Al-Hendy, MD
GnRH antagonists are revolutionizing the medical management of uterine fibroids. Drs. Al-Hendy and Shulman discuss how medical myomectomy with GnRH antagonists is revolutionizing care by bridging gaps during 3 different stages of patients’ lives.
Host: Lee Shulman MD, FACOG, FACMG
Guest: Elizabeth Stewart, MD
Fertility preservation is a significant clinical concern for all women of reproductive age diagnosed with endometriosis or uterine fibroids (UF). Drs. Elizabeth Stewart and Lee Shulman discuss how the advent of GnRH antagonists is affecting how we approach these 2 conditions. Management trends are evolving beyond reflexive, prophylactic surgery, so are you ready to change with the times?
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Kenneth J. Moise Jr., MD
Program Chairman:
How well do you understand the biology of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN)? What about its connection to the FcRn receptor pathway and IgG? Drs. Lee Shulman and Ken Moise go beyond the basics taught in medical school immunology and look more closely at FcRn’s role in protecting IgG. With an improved understanding of these mechanisms, we can expand therapeutic targets beyond the fetus and newborn and finally put the needles away.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Linda Bradley, MD
Join Drs. Linda Bradley and Lee Shulman as they discuss factors contributing to disparities in care for patients with endometriosis and/or uterine fibroids. They offer practical tips to overcome the disproportionate disease burden that especially impacts women of color. Cut through the noise to clearly hear each patient’s voice. Your clinical impact may be profound.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Kenneth J. Moise Jr., MD
Program Chairman:
Are you taking the right steps to consistently ensure all of your patients at risk of alloimmune disorders of pregnancy, specifically HDFN, receive a helping hand plus timely and appropriate clinical care? Despite having considerable clinical consequences, this area of medicine is not fully understood by many clinicians. Drs. Shulman and Moise provide expert insight on red blood cell alloimmunization, highlighting essential pathophysiology and current and evolving management strategies. Join us to learn new ways to approach this complicated and rare clinical condition.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Nanette F. Santoro, MD
Tune out the noise and get to the heart of managing menopause and associated vasomotor symptoms. This program provides highlights from the 2022 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting. Join Drs. Nanette Santoro and Lee Shulman as they dive into the latest research, which could alter your current practice patterns and help your patients cool off.
Host: Ayman Al-Hendy, MD
Despite its profound impact, endometriosis remains critically undermanaged. This program provides highlights from a live symposium at the annual meeting for obstetrics and gynecology professionals and is based on patient & provider surveys. Join Dr. Ayman Al-Hendy to explore management gaps, the role of GnRH antagonists in addressing deficits, and the latest research, which he presented with Drs. Andrea Lukes and Lee Shulman—you might just alter your current practice patterns.
Host: Mitchell D. Creinin, MD
In-office delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) services was markedly restricted for 2 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in-office access to these services has begun to improve. What have we learned since 2020 that can prepare us for future periods of reduced access? Join Dr. Mitchell Creinin as he discusses SRH service strategies initiated during the pandemic that remain useful even in times of full in-office access.
Host: Jeffery D. Dunn, PharmD, MBA
Guest: Gary M. Owens, MD
Guest: Anita L. Nelson, MD
Are you ready to see what is on the horizon to more effectively navigate vasomotor symptoms (VMS)? Join Drs. Dunn, Owens, and Nelson as they discuss highlights from a symposium held at AMCP 2022 featuring the latest data on the impact of menopause and evolving treatments options. They provide guidance, context, and recommendations for the medical management of VMS beyond estrogen. The nonhormonal treatment options that are currently being studied represent a new horizon for both patients and payers.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Stephanie Martin, DO
How ready are you to go beyond simply ordering CBCs and recognizing anemia? Join Drs. Martin and Shulman as they discuss the latest developments in oral and IV iron therapies. Learn how you may take a more active role in managing iron deficiency anemia, focusing on abnormal uterine bleeding.
Participating in this activity will ensure that you are prepared to address the goals with your patients by improving access and adherence to efficacious and convenient therapies.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Ayman Al-Hendy, MD
Surgery has long been the default choice when managing uterine fibroids and endometriosis. However, over the past few years, reliable and durable medical interventions have emerged, notably GnRH antagonist therapy. Clinical trial data for GnRH antagonists highlight both their safety and efficacy for a broad demographic of patients. Join Drs. Lee Shulman and Ayman Al-Hendy as they discuss the “how” and the “why” of a paradigm shift that is occurring, changing our focus from surgery to first-line medical intervention for uterine fibroids and endometriosis.
Guest: Peter Goadsby, MD, PhD, DSc
Guest: Kathleen B. Mullin, MD
Women with migraine have unique needs that often remain undermanaged. Have you taken a critical look at the standard of care and how current treatment strategies have recently shifted? Groundbreaking research on the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) pathway has led to the development of new medications that act on the specific cascade of inflammatory response associated with migraine. Also called gepants, the CGRP receptor antagonists confer clinical benefit to patients who seek better control of their migraines.
Tune in to this Women’s Health 2021 program to hear our experts, Drs. Peter Goadsby and Kathleen Mullin, discuss the diagnosis of migraine with a focus on the recent evolution of acute and preventive treatment strategies and the role of gepants. Are you doing all you can to ensure that your patients’ needs are optimally addressed?
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Erica E. Marsh MD, MSCI, FACOG
Hear from Dr. Erica Marsh and Dr. Lee Shulman as they discuss the burden, prevalence, and treatment of uterine fibroids and endometriosis and the disproportionate impact these conditions have on vulnerable populations. Learn how to prioritize early diagnosis and treatment to improve outcomes for your patients; as well as evaluating barriers to proper diagnosis and treatment
Our experts offer strategies to guide discussions beyond surgical treatment approaches to include pharmacotherapeutic options such as GnRH agonists and new oral GnRH antagonists. Open communication with patients allows them to carefully consider symptom severity, risks, and fertility preferences to optimize treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction. Tune in to make sure that you’re really doing all you can for your patients.
Host: Anita H. Clayton, MD
Guest: Nancy Byatt, DO
Guest: Jennifer L. Payne, MD
In this panel discussion, Drs. Anita Clayton, Jennifer Payne, and Nancy Byatt walk us through two clinical cases of postpartum depression. Listen in as they discuss optimal strategies to screen, diagnosis, and treat patients, as well as go over the newer class of medications specifically targeted at treating PPD.
Host: Anita L. Nelson, MD
In this Women’s Health 2021 lecture, Dr. Anita Nelson discusses why uterine fibroids are such a high priority for both women and their clinicians. Listen in as she shares strategies to engage patients in discussions about their fibroid symptoms and their preferences for treatment. Dr. Nelson also evaluates the latest evidence on the mechanisms of action, safety, and efficacy of the newer class of therapies that are now available and can improve the quality of life for women with fibroids.
Host: Anita H. Clayton, MD
Listen in as Dr. Anita Clayton takes us through the importance of screening for postpartum depression (PPD) and reaching an early diagnosis in the perinatal and postnatal stages of pregnancy. This Women’s Health 2021 lecture also covers the exciting new agents that are targeted specifically for PPD. Find out how they compare to the traditional antidepressants and how they can improve the quality of life for your patients with PPD.
Host: Anita L. Nelson, MD
How confident are you in determining which of your patients with endometriosis are suitable candidates for medical intervention? Do you ask about each patient’s goals and preferences? Have you heard about the paradigm shift occurring in the medical management of endometriosis?
While medical management of endometriosis is often a secondary consideration to surgery, it should often be the first line of treatment. Join Dr. Anita Nelson as she discusses long-standing and novel medical strategies for managing endometriosis. Find out how you can use shared decision-making strategies to help you provide more options to your patients. Join us and take an important first step that can improve outcomes and quality of life for your patients while enabling them to make educated decisions about their immediate and long-term treatment.
Host: Andrea Singer, MD, FACP, CCD
Guest: Paul A. Anderson, MD
Guest: Susan V. Bukata, MD, FAOA, FAAOS
While there’s growing awareness among orthopedic surgeons that osteoporosis is the underlying cause of fractures, there is often a disconnect between this recognition and action in the form of treatment to prevent subsequent fractures. In this discussion, Drs. Andrea Singer, Paul Anderson, and Susan Bukata address the pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the need to identify patients at risk for additional fractures. Osteoporosis treatment (including pharmacotherapy) can play a critical role in preventing future fractures, but physicians must first recognize that fracture is a sentinel event and treat it as a call to action.
Host: Ricardo Franco, MD
Guest: Catherine A. Chappell, MD MSc
With alarming increases in the incidence of maternal HCV, your obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) practice plays a critical role in screening of all pregnant patients and engaging HCV-infected women who otherwise may not seek medical care. This educational activity will provide practical tactics for implementing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) screening guidelines at the practice level, insights for destigmatizing behavioral risk inquiries and harm-reduction discussions, current recommendations for postpartum HCV treatment, and evolving perspectives on HCV treatment during pregnancy.
Guest: Gregory Pokrywka MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, NCMP
Guest: Karol Watson, MD, PhD
Join us to discover optimal ways to identify women at risk or with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). In this Women’s Health 2021 lecture, our experts, Dr. Gregory Pokrywka and Dr. Karol Watson, dive deeper into evidence-based approaches to assess and manage ASCVD in women. They discuss topics from lifestyle modifications to recent clinical trial data on the use of omega-3 fatty acids for ASCVD event reduction.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Michelle Y. Owens, MD
OB-GYN clinicians can improve how they communicate with their patients about hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn or HDFN. Strategies include encouraging patients to talk about their feelings when learning about this condition and communicating with them in terms that are not overly complex. In this program, Drs. Lee Shulman and Michelle Owens discuss how to break things down for the patient in front of you and explain how to use a read-back approach. This tactic ensures that your patient has absorbed what was discussed and also allows you to identify gaps in her understanding that can be addressed with further counseling.
Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG
Guest: Kenneth J. Moise, Jr., MD
Guest: Christopher Robinson, MD
Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) is a rare disease that occurs due to the incompatibility between fetal and maternal red cell antigens. HDFN can lead to both short- and long-term consequences, including potentially fatal outcomes. In order to better prevent these associated issues, the timely evaluation, recognition, and treatment of HDFN are critical.
Listen in as three leading experts, Drs. Lee Shulman, Kenneth Moise, and Christopher Robinson, join together to discuss new epidemiologic evidence, the underlying pathophysiology of HDFN, health equity, and evolving management strategies you can implement to improve your clinical practice.
Host: David L. Eisenberg, MD, MPH, FACOG
Guest: David J. Portman, MD
A new form of contraception based on vaginal pH modulation is available. In this activity, Dr. Eisenberg reviews the risks and benefits of the hormone-free, user-controlled gel, and Dr. Portman provides his perspective on clinical trial results within the context of the “creeping Pearl Index.”
Host: Prathima Setty, MD
Fertility preservation technologies have become more advanced and more accessible over the past several years. Joining host Dr. Prathima Setty to discuss current options for women to protect their fertility is Dr. Naveed Khan, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Specialist in Leesburg, VA. Dr. Khan practices with Shady Grove Fertility, the nation's largest fertility center, and is also a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.