Research — Beyond the Bubble

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has a very active research program which supports the Divisions of Gynecologic Oncology, Maternal and Fetal Medicine, and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

PUBLICATION - Conception rates in women desiring pregnancy after levonorgestrel 52 mg intrauterine system (Liletta) discontinuation (Bruce R. Carr, Michael A. Thomas, Angelina Gangestad, David L. Eisenberg, Andrea Olariu, and Mitchell D. Creinin)

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PUBLICATION - A novel vaginal pH regulator: results from the phase 3 AMPOWER contraception clinical trial (Michael A. Thomas, B. Todd Chappell, Bassem Maximos, Kelly R. Culwell, Clint Dart , and Brandon Howard)

PUBLICATION - Cervical Stratified Mucin-Producing Intraepithelial Lesion: A Systematic Review of Diagnosis and Management (Wolf, Jennifer L. MD, Billingsley, Caroline C. MD, Kendler, Ady MD, PhD, and Jackson, Amanda L. MD)

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PUBLICATION - A New Minimally Invasive Treatment for Cesarean Scar Pregnancy and Cervical Pregnancy (Aleeza Abbasi, MD)

POSTER - Influence of access to immediate postpartum LARCs on interpregnancy interval (Juliana Bakk, MD, Kriya Patel, BA, Meredith Pensak, MD, and Emily DeFranco, DO)

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PUBLICATION - Adjuvant therapy for early stage, endometrial cancer with lymphovascular space invasion: Is there a role for chemotherapy? ( Anna L. Beavis, Ting-Tai Yen, Rebecca L. Stone, Stephanie L. Wethington, Caitlin Carr, Ji Son, Laura Chambers, Chad M. Michener, Stephanie Ricci, Wesley C. Burkett, Debra L. Richardson, Allison-Stuart Staley, Susie Ahn, Paola A. Gehrig, Diogo Torres, Sean C. Dowdy, Mackenzie W. Sullivan, Susan C. Modesitt, Catherine Watson, Ashely Veade, Jessie Ehrisman, Laura Havrilesky, Angeles Alvarez Secord, Amy Loreen, Kaitlyn Griffin, Amanda Jackson, Akila N. Viswanathan, Leah R.Jager, and Amanda N. Fader)

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POSTER - Association of mode of delivery on infant survival at 22 and 23 weeks of gestation (Heather Czarny, MD, Braxton Forde, MD, Emily DeFranco, DO, Eric S. Hall, PhD and Robert M. Rossi, MD)

PUBLICATION - Salpingectomy versus Tubal Occlusion for Permanent Contraception during Cesarean Delivery: Outcomes and Physician Attitudes (Deborah Levy, MD, Sarah Casey, MD, Gregory Zemtsov, MD, and James L. Whiteside, MD)

POSTER - Salpingectomy versus Tubal Occlusion for Permanent Contraception during Cesarean Delivery: Outcomes and Physician Attitudes (Deborah Levy, MD, Sarah Casey, MD, Gregory Zemtsov, MD, and James L. Whiteside, MD)

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POSTER - PMS2 is the most frequently mutated Lynch Syndrome (LS) Gene in Women With Endometrial Cancer (EC): What is the Role that Low Penetrance LS Genes Play in EC? (Monica Dandapani Levine, Rachel Pearlman, Heather Hampel, Casey Cosgrove, David Cohn, Alexis Chassen, Adrian Suarez, Steven Waggoner, Caroline Billingsley, Kim Resnick, Steve Andrews, Sareena Singh, Eric Jenison, Aine Clements, Robert Neff, Paul J Goodfellow and the Ohio Prevention and Treatment of Endometrial Cancer (OPTEC) Initiative Study Team)

PUBLICATION - Young Adult Males’ Perspectives of Male Hormonal Contraception (Megan R. Sax, MD, Emily G. Hurley, MD, Rocco A. Rossi, MD, MA, Suruchi Thakore, MD, Abhinav Hasija, PhD, and Julie Sroga-Rios, MD)

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PUBLICATION - Regional comparison of self-reported late pregnancy cigarette smoking to mass spectrometry analysis (Eric S. Hall, Jennifer M. McAllister, Elizabeth A. Kelly, Kenneth D. R. Setchell, Vandana Megaraj, Kristine L. Jimenez, Nichole Nidey, James M. Greenberg, and Scott L. Wexelblatt)

PUBLICATION - Food Insecurity in an Urban Pregnancy Cohort (Kirby Sullivan, BS, Meghan St. John, BS, Emily DeFranco, DO, MS, and Elizabeth Kelly, MD, MS)

POSTER - Racial Disparities Among Social Determinants of Health during Pregnancy (Nicole Conrad, BS, Emily DeFranco, DO, MS, and Elizabeth Kelly, MD, MS)

POSTER - Influence of Social Determinants of Health on Breastfeeding Intent (Sarah J. Kopp, BS, Elizabeth A. Kelly, MD, MS, and Emily A. DeFranco DO, MS)

PUBLICATION - Association between mode of delivery and infant survival at 22 and 23 weeks of gestation (Czarny H, Forde B, DeFranco EA, Hall ES, and Rossi RM)

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POSTER - Contemporary changes in utilization of maternal and neonatal interventions for periviable births in the U.S. (Beecham M, Hajdu S, Rossi R, and DeFranco E)

POSTER - Maternal Age-Specific Drivers of Severe Maternal Morbidity (Rebecca Carr, BS, David McKinney, MD, Amy Cherry, BS, and Emily DeFranco DO, MS)

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PUBLICATION - Factors Associated with Occurrence of Stillbirth before 32 Weeks of Gestation in a Contemporary Cohort (Elizabeth E. Brackett, MD, Eric S. Hall, PhD, Emily A. DeFranco, DO, MS, and Robert M. Rossi, MD)

POSTER - Comparison of growth curves for predicting small for gestational age infants among contemporary US populations (James Liu, MD, Kara B Markham, MD, and Emily DeFranco, DO, MS)

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POSTER - Morbidity risk of small for gestational age births by race/ethnicity using popular fetal growth curves (James Liu, MD, Kara B Markham, MD, and Emily DeFranco DO, MS)

POSTER - The Impact of Total Laser Energy During Selective Fetoscopic Laser Photocoagulation on Outcomes of Pregnancies Affected by Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (Claudia M. Mort, B.A., Braxton Forde, M.D., Robert J. Fresch, D.O., Heather Masters, M.D, Mounira Habli, M.D., Emily DeFranco, D.O., David McKinney, M.D., Foong-Yen Lim, M.D. , Jose Peiro, M.D., PhD, Sammy M Tabbah, M.D.)

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PUBLICATION - Pediatric Respiratory and Enteric Virus Acquisition and Immunogenesis in US Mothers and Children Aged 0-2: PREVAIL Cohort Study (Ardythe L Morrow, PhD, Mary A Staat, MD, MPH, Emily A DeFranco, DO, MS, Monica M McNeal, MS, Allison R Cline, RN, BSN, Shannon C Conrey, MS, Elizabeth P Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, Alexandra M Piasecki, MPH, Rachel M Burke, PhD, MPH, Liang Niu, PhD, Aron J Hall, DVM, MSPH, Michael D Bowen, PhD, Susan I Gerber, MD, Gayle E Langley, MD, MPH, Natalie J Thornburg, PhD, Angela P Campbell, MD, PhD, Jan Vinjé, PhD, Umesh D Parashar, MBBS, MPH, and Daniel C Payne, PhD, MSPH)

PUBLICATION - Persistence of Maternal Anti-Rotavirus Immunoglobulin G in the Post–Rotavirus Vaccine Era (Daniel C. Payne, Monica McNeal, Mary Allen Staat, Alexandra M. Piasecki, Allison Cline, Emily DeFranco, Michelle G. Goveia, Umesh D. Parashar, Rachel M. Burke, and Ardythe L. Morrow)

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PUBLICATION - Severe maternal morbidity associated with cerclage use in pregnancy (MacKenzie Lee, Robert M. Rossi, and Emily A. DeFranco)

POSTER - Short interpregnancy interval and risk of severe maternal morbidity in the United States (Emily DeFranco DO, MS)

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PUBLICATION - Time required to complete transvaginal cervical length in women receiving universal cervical length screening for preterm birth prevention (Heather R. Masters, Carri Warshak, Samantha Sinclair, Sara Rountree, and Emily DeFranco)

POSTER - Severe Maternal Morbidity in Pregnancies Complicated by Isolated Congenital Heart Disease (Stephanie Y. Tseng, Shae Anderson, Emily DeFranco, Robert Rossi, Allison Divanovic, and James Cnota)

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PUBLICATION - Universal transvaginal cervical length screening during pregnancy increases the diagnostic incidence of low-lying placenta and placenta previa (Samantha Sinclair, MD, Heather R. Masters, MD, MS, Emily DeFranco, DO, MS, Sara Rountree, RDMS, Carri R. Warshak, MD)

PUBLICATION - Higher dose docosahexaenoic acid supplementation during pregnancy and early preterm birth: A randomised, double-blind, adaptive-design superiority trial (Susan E Carlson, Byron J Gajewski, Christina J Valentine, Elizabeth H Kerling, Carl P Weiner, Michael Cackovic, Catalin S Buhimschi, Lynette K Rogers, Scott A Sands, Alexandra R Brown, Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam, Sarah A Crawford, and Emily A DeFranco)

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PUBLICATION - Breastfeeding Disparities and Their Mediators in an Urban Birth Cohort of Black and White Mothers (Ardythe L. Morrow, Janelle McClain, Shannon C. Conrey, Liang Niu, Alexandra Kinzer, Allison R. Cline, Alexandra M. Piasecki, Emily DeFranco, Laura Ward, Julie Ware, Daniel C. Payne, Mary A. Staat, and Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers)

PUBLICATION - Pediatric Respiratory and Enteric Virus Acquisition and Immunogenesis in US Mothers and Children Aged 0-2: PREVAIL Cohort Study (Ardythe L Morrow, PhD; Mary A Staat, MD, MPH; Emily A DeFranco, DO, MS; Monica M McNeal, MS; Allison R Cline, RN, BSN; Shannon C Conrey, MS; Elizabeth P Schlaudecker, MD, MPH; Alexandra M Piasecki, MPH; Rachel M Burke, PhD, MPH; Liang Niu, PhD; Aron J Hall, DVM, MSPH; Michael D Bowen, PhD; Susan I Gerber, MD; Gayle E Langley, MD, MPH; Natalie J Thornburg, PhD; Angela P Campbell, MD, PhD; Jan Vinjé, PhD; Umesh D Parashar, MBBS, MPH; Daniel C Payne, PhD, MSPH)

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PUBLICATION - Persistence of Maternal Anti-Rotavirus Immunoglobulin G in the Post–Rotavirus Vaccine Era (Daniel C. Payne, Monica McNeal, Mary Allen Staat, Alexandra M. Piasecki, Allison Cline, Emily DeFranco, Michelle G. Goveia, Umesh D. Parashar, Rachel M. Burke, and Ardythe L. Morrow)

PUBLICATION - Adjuvant therapy for early stage, endometrial cancer with lymphovascular space invasion: Is there a role for chemotherapy? (Anna L. Beavis, Ting-Tai Yen, Rebecca L. Stone, Stephanie L. Wethington, Caitlin Carr, Ji Son, Laura Chambers, Chad M. Michener, Stephanie Ricci, Wesley C. Burkett, Debra L. Richardson, Allison-Stuart Staley, Susie Ahn, Paola A. Gehrig, Diogo Torres, Sean C. Dowdy, Mackenzie W. Sullivan, Susan C. Modesitt, Catherine Watson, Ashely Veade, Jessie Ehrisman, Laura Havrilesky, Angeles Alvarez Secord, Amy Loreen, Kaitlyn Griffin, Amanda Jackson, Akila N. Viswanathan, Leah R.Jager, and Amanda N. Fader)

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