We are excited to introduce our new team members!
Welcome to Ola Elsharif and Cherry Xu, both currently in their second year of the Bachelor of Health Sciences program here at McMaster.
We are looking forward to working together and improving the health of women and infants!
Congratulations to Sugee Korale Liyanage and Kiran Ninan for their recent publication “Guidelines on Deferred Cord Clamping and Cord Milking: A Systematic Review” in Pediatrics! This article was also the subject of a commentary in the same edition, written by Douglas Blank and Susan Niermeyer!
Thank you to our wonderful team members for their ongoing commitment to excellence in research and dedication to the team!
This publication can be viewed online here.
The commentary can be viewed online here.
Dr. McDonald is incredibly grateful for her renewal as the Canada Research Chair in Maternal and Infant Health Promotion (Tier 2), awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
We are excited to continue our work on antenatal corticosteroid use! We have submitted the protocol for our study “Long-term outcomes after prenatal exposure to antenatal corticosteroids: A systematic review and meta-analysis” to Prospero for registration on June 24, 2020.
Congratulations to the presenters for their presentations and posters at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s (SOGC) 76th Annual Clinical and Scientific Conference (ACSC)!
Kiran’s oral presentation available here.
Dr. Grabovac’s poster presentation available here.
Dr. Marseu’s poster presentation available here.
We are excited to introduce the three new team members who will joining us!
Welcome to Prarthana Franklin-Luther, who is finishing up her PhD in social sciences with a focus on maternal-child outcomes!
Welcome to Dr. Gabe Shapiro, who completed his PhD in perinatal epidemiology with Bill Fraser and has been continuing to work since that time in perinatal and clinical epidemiology!
Welcome to Margot Ferguson, a McMaster undergraduate who will be starting 3rd year in the fall who is part of the Integrative Science program!
We are looking forward to working together and improving the health of women and infants!
We have an exciting opportunity to undertake Knowledge Translation by partnering with our parent organization, Canadian Premature Babies Foundation (CPBF) for a Live Facebook session on prevention of prematurity with Fabiana Bacchini. Fabiana is a writer who had extremely preterm twins. The video can be accessed on June 26, 2020 at 1:00pm on CPBF’s website, which is linked here.
Dr. Ali Marseu’s work on “Clinician Delphi on mode of delivery in extremely preterm breech singletons” (Dr. A Marseu, Dr. G Moore, Dr. P Santaguida, Dr. A Mukerji, under the supervision of Dr. S McDonald) was accepted as a poster presentation at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s Annual Clinical Scientific Conference (SOGC ACSC)! Congratulations again to Dr. Marseu, who will be joining Kiran Ninan and Dr. Marinela Grabovac as presenters at the 76th SOGC ACSC in June 2020!
We are looking forward to our team’s showcase of their important research!
Congratulations to Dr. Marinela Grabovac and Kiran Ninan whose research was accepted as poster and oral presentations respectively at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s (SOGC) 76th Annual Clinical and Scientific Conference (ACSC)!
Dr. Marinela Grabovac’s work on “Deferred cord clamping in twins: a retrospective cohort study” (Dr. M Grabovac, Dr. M Beltempo, Dr. J Yang, Dr. J Beyene, Dr. A Lodha, Dr. A Grigoriu, Dr. K Barrington, Dr. C O’Quinn, under the supervision of Dr. S McDonald) was accepted as a poster presentation!
Kiran Ninan, a fourth-year Bachelor of Health Sciences Student, will be doing an oral presentation on “What do clinical practice guidelines suggest for deferred cord clamping for preterm and term infants and how evidence-based are they? A systematic review” (Ninan K, Liyanage SK, Ali R, under the supervision of Dr. S McDonald). Congratulations to Kiran Ninan, Sugee Liyanage and Rifaa Ali for their work on this research, which was also short-listed for an award as Best of Three!
Thank you to our wonderful team members for their ongoing dedication to excellence in research and commitment to the team!
We are excited to welcome Yun-Yi Cui to our team! Yun-Yi is a Bachelor of Health Sciences student at McMaster who will be joining us as a Student Research Assistant. We are looking forward to working together and improving the health of women and infants!
