Grand Rounds

On August 28, 2025, Micaela Berry-Smith, BA, Senior Program Manager for Community & Maternal and Child Health Initiatives for the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness (FFBWW), presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Circle of Care: Doulas as Catalysts for Community Wellness and System Transformation”. Berry-Smith is also the associate director of community engagement at the UW-... more

On August 21, 2025, medical students participating in the Shapiro Summer Research Program presented a multi-part Grand Rounds lecture sharing their research projects. Six students presented their projects: Anna Heintz – “Rethinking the 2500: Optimizing ꞵ-hCG Cutoffs for Early Pregnancy Viability” – starts at 2:31Morgan Homme – “Incidence of New Eating Disorders in Young Pati... more

On July 31, 2025, Ryan Luellwitz, DO, clinical associate professor in the Division of Academic Specialists in Ob-Gyn, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Shock Management for the OB/GYN”. In the lecture, Luellwitz discussed the different types and causes of shock as well as how to manage the initial resuscitation for various shock states. Watch the whole lecture here.**by Ob... more

On August 7, 2025, Rebecca Hamm, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Training (AMETHIST@Penn), presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Towards Evidence-Based Induction: Personalized Ris... more

On July 24, 2025, Maura Shirey, RN, NBC-HWC, CPFE, retired nurse and founder of Bodies for Birth, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “From Walking to Walking Handstands: Navigating the Conversation Around Exercise In Pregnancy with Confidence”. In the lecture, Shirey spoke about current practices and knowledge surrounding exercise in pregnancy; current guidelines for prenata... more

On July 17, 2025, Katie Sampene, MD, clinical professor in the Division of Academic Specialists in Ob-Gyn and Director of Obstetric Quality & Safety, and Sumer Wallace, MD, associate professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology and Director of Gynecology Quality & Safety, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Quality Improvement Update”.In the lecture, Sampene and Wallace... more

On June 26, 2025, Adi Hirshberg, MD, director of Obstetrical Services at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Approach to Diagnosis and Management of Postpartum Hypertension”.In the lecture, Hirshberg outlined the evaluation and diagnosis of postpartum hypertension; discussed treatment of varying severity of postpartum hypertens... more