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)!

• • Congratulations to Kiran Ninan (who has been with the team several years, and soon to be an MSc student with the team), Sugee Korale Liyanage (former BHSc/MSc student at U of T med)and Rifaa Ali (2nd year BHSc) for their oral presentation “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, McDonald SD, short-listed for an award as Best of Three!) 

 Kiran’s oral presentation available here.

• • Congratulations to Dr. Marinela Grabovac for her poster “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, Dr. S McDonald).

Dr. Grabovac’s poster presentation available here. 

• • Congratulations to Dr. Ali Marseu, a final year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow, for her poster “Clinician Delphi on mode of delivery in extremely preterm breech singletons”! Thank you to Dr. Lina Santaguida, clinical epidemiologist par excellence for her wise input! (Dr. A Marseu, Dr. G Moore, Dr. P Santaguida, Dr. S McDonald).

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!

A huge congratulations to both Kiran Ninan, a fourth year Bachelor of Health Science student, and Dr. Marinela Grabovac for their excellent oral presentations at the 7th annual Canadian National Perinatal Research Meet (CNPRM) in Banff!

Kiran Ninan presented his oral 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.”

His conference abstract can be found here.

Dr. Marinela Grabovac did an oral presentation on “Deferred cord clamping in twins: a retrospective cohort study”

The conference abstract for her presentation can be found here.

Congratulations again to both Kiran and Dr. Grabovac for their remarkable job at CNPRM. Thank you both for your hard work in improving the health of women and infants!

Congratulations to Dr. Marinela Grabovac for her oral presentation on “Deferred cord clamping in twins: a retrospective cohort study” at the Canadian Neonatal Network – Canadian Preterm Birth Network (CNN-CPTBN) annual meeting! She did a tremendous job at knowledge translation of her research findings. Bravo!