This week, the team held a celebration of the research done to advance the health of women and infants!
It was nice to welcome new team members, see how the team has grown and celebrate team members’ contributions to improving the health of women and infants!
We are excited to learn that McMaster has been ranked the number one research-intensive Canadian university for the second consecutive year! With a total research income of $434.7 per faculty (more than 3 times the national average), we look forward to the future advances McMaster has to offer this year!
For further information, the original Infosource article can be located here.
We are happy to have celebrated World Prematurity Day on Friday November 16th here at Hamilton Health Sciences, and November 17th worldwide! It is an excellent opportunity to celebrate children, moms, dads, and families, and raise awareness about methods of prematurity prevention!
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Reza Arabi Belaghi to the team as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Perinatal Predictive Modeling including analysis of Big Data. He has worked in a wide verity of topics in both theoretical and applied statistics. We look forward to working together to improve the health of women and infants!
We would like to warmly welcome Ling Yang to our team as a student research assistant! Ling will be starting her second year of the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Hons.) program this September. We look forward to working together to improve the health of women and infants!
We would once again like to congratulate Dr. Marinela Grabovac! Dr. Grabovac presented her oral presentation, “What is the safest mode of birth for extremely preterm breech singleton infants who are actively resuscitated? A systematic review and meta-analyses”, which was published in BJOG in November 2017 and short listed for an award, at the Society of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of Canada conference in Victoria, British Columbia. She did a superb job, with a great delivery, impactful slides and effective responses to questions!
Congratulations to Kristen, who recently had a paper, “A clinical carepath for obese pregnant women: A pragmatic pilot cluster randomized controlled trial”, accepted for publication by the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine!
The study found that clinics where the carepath was implemented had an approximately 70% higher overall adherence to guideline recommendations compared to clinics without the carepath.
The paper can be viewed at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14767058.2018.1478957
Congratulations again on the excellent work to improve the health of women and infants!
The team’s publication, “What is the safest mode of birth for extremely preterm breech singleton infants who are actively resuscitated? A systematic review and meta-analyses” (M Grabovac, JN Karim, T Isayama, S Korale Liyanage, SD McDonald. BJOG. 2018 May;125:652-663. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.14938), was deemed by the editor to be of such importance that they subsequently included a debate about it:
Carreno & Chauhan BJOG 2018 “Caesarean section is the safest mode of delivery for extremely preterm breech singleton infants, FOR: Caesarean delivery of extremely preterm breech singletons”
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We appreciate the comments and opinions from Dr. Carreno, Dr. Chauhan, and Dr. Silver. It’s great to see that the team’s research is stirring up intellectual discussion on this important topic!
We are delighted to introduce Ms. Brenda Hayman, who has joined the team as a part time Research Assistant. She comes with a broad background of experience including technical writing and we look forward to working together!
Congratulations to Dr. Grabovac who has another opportunity for Knowledge Translation of research findings with an oral presentation which has been short listed for a possible award at the Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of Canada (SOGC) in June in Victoria on her breech systematic review that showed that cesarean section was associated with 40% lower odds of death and 50% lower odds of severe brain bleeds! Bravo, Dr. Grabovac, for your dedication to improving the health of women and infants!
Dr. McDonald is pleased to contribute to a CIHR Clinician-Investigator Team with Dr. Beth Murray-Davis, co-Principal Investigator (MW, PhD, McMaster), and other co-Principal Investigators Drs. Nir Melamed (MFM, Sunnybrook) and Howard Berger (MFM, St Michael’s).
The CIHR-funded McMaster-University of Toronto team grant includes:
Karizma (RC), Dr. Joel Ray (Mentor), Dr. Haroon Hassan (analyst), Dr. Nir Melamed (co-Principal Investigator), Dr. Beth Murray-Davis (co-Principal Investigator), Dr. Howard Berger (co-Principal Investigator), Dr. Sarah McDonald (Mentor), and 2 of our great research assistants.
