Faculty, trainees, researchers, and more from the UW Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology brought posters and presentations to the 2024 Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Pregnancy Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, this February. Read on for some of their exciting accomplishments! Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellow Jackie Powell, MD, earned the Best Poster of Poster Session 3 with the poster “Improving participation in postpartum remote blood pressure monitoring collaborating with community doulas for Black women”. Associate Professor Kara Hoppe, DO, MS, is senior author on the poster. Co-authors include Tia Murray, BS, Uchenna Jones, RN, Erin Bailey, MD, MS, Kristin Hildebrandt, MSN, RN, Megan Knutson Sinaise, MS.
Scientific Forum: Adverse Obstetric Outcomes Among Physicians – Jackie Powell, MD
Breastfeeding rates among Black participants in a remote hypertension monitoring/community-based doula partnership study - Erin Bailey, MD, MS; Megan Knutson Sinaise, MS; Tia Murray, BS; Uchenna Jones, RN; Kathleen Wannemuehler, PhD; Kara Hoppe, DO, MS
Engaging community doulas with a remote postpartum hypertension program for Black persons: A qualitative study – Elizabeth Albert, MA; Megan Knutson Sinaise, MS; Tia Murray, BS; Nicole Thomas, BSN; Kathleen Wannemuehler, PhD; Susan Passmore, PhD; Kara Hoppe, DO, MS
Understanding Fluid Shifts in Hypertension: Postpartum Point-of-Care Ultrasound of the Inferior Vena Cava and Aorta – Awa Sanneh, MD; Jenna Racine, MD; Amy Godecker, PhD; Kara Hoppe, DO, MS; J. Igor Iruretagoyena, MD, MS
Improving participation in postpartum remote blood pressure monitoring collaborating with community doulas for Black women - Jackie Powell, MD; Tia Murray, BS; Uchenna Jones, RN; Erin Bailey, MD, MS; Kristin Hildebrandt, MSN, RN; Megan Knutson Sinaise, MS; Kara Hoppe, DO, MS
In early November, three Department of Ob-Gyn faculty served as American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology board examiners in Texas!
Janine Rhoades, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine; Steve Rose, MD, professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology; and Igor Iruretagoyena, MD, MS, professor and director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, all served as specialty oral examiners.
It's an exciting department accomplishment to have three faculty serve as specialty board examiners. Thank you all for your work supporting the next generation of ob-gyn physicians!
Faculty, residents, fellows, researchers and more brought numerous posters and presentations to the virtual 2021 Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting at the end of January! Learn more about the wealth of research shared by our colleagues at the conference:
PRESENTATION:
Racial disparities in post-operative pain experience and treatment following cesarean birth
John Poehlmann; Tiffany Green, Katie Antony, Amy Godecker
POSTERS:
Trouble with the curve: Is an ultrasound growth curve needed to predict SGA infants?
Bradley Bosse; Jacquelyn Adams, Melissa Meyer, John Poehlmann, Janine Rhoades, Igor Iruretagoyena
Obtaining accurate blood pressures: A quality improvement initiative to increase obstetric nursing knowledge and confidence
Matt Wagar; Jacquelyn Adams, Amy Godecker, Katie Antony
Prediction of vaginal delivery utilizing intrapartum transperineal ultrasound
Stephanie Peace; Melissa Meyer, Jacquelyn Adams, Katie Antony; Luther Gaston
Comparing 32-week vs 36-week growth ultrasound for prediction of LGA infants in obese gravidae
John Poehlmann; Jacquelyn Adams, Melissa Meyer, Jenna Racine, Janine Rhoades, Igor Iruretagoyena
Impact of a Standardized Post-Cesarean Analgesia Regimen on Postpartum Opioid Use
Melissa Meyer; Katie Antony
The impact of pre-existing maternal anxiety on pain and opioid use following cesarean birth
John Poehlmann; Amy Godecker, Katie Antony
Blood pressure pattern of women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is highly affected by obesity
Narmin Mukhtarova (MFM research intern); Kara Hoppe co-authored
Postpartum blood pressure of Black women is significantly higher compared to non-Black women
Narmin Mukhtarova (MFM research intern); Kara Hoppe co-authored
Did institutional changes and patient behaviors surrounding COVID-19 affect perinatal outcomes?
Jenna Racine; Igor Iruretagoyena, Kara Hoppe
Distance matters. The effect of distance to the hospital on estimated blood loss.
Kara Hoppe; Alexa Lowry
Blood pressure pattern pre-pregnancy through 42-day postpartum of women with preeclampsia, gestational, and chronic hypertension
Narmin Mukhtarova (MFM research intern); Kara Hoppe
Though the meeting was virtual this year, the UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine brought an impressive raft of research to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s 42nd Annual Pregnancy Meeting! Read about some of the incredible posters and presentations they shared at the conference:
Risk calculator for hypertension related postpartum readmission - Jinxin Tao, Yonatan Mintz, Ramsey Larson, Dakota Dalton, Kara Hoppe
(check out the risk calculator, recently published on Dr. Hoppe’s Staying Healthy After Childbirth site!)
A Spatial Approach to Examining Individual and Disparity-Level Factors and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy - Erin Bailey, Maria Kamenestky, Alexa Lowry, Ronald Gangnon, Kara Hoppe
Is isolated small head circumference at 20 weeks predictive of FGR or SGA at delivery? - Brad Bosse, Madeline Wetterhahn, Erin Bailey, Janine Rhoades, J. Igor Iruretagoyena, Jacquelyn Adams
A Spatial Approach to Examining Individual and Disparity-Level Factors and Birth Outcomes - Alexa Lowry, Maria Kamenetsky, Erin Bailey, Ronald Gangnon, Kara Hoppe
Understanding endothelial dysfunction in preterm preeclampsia with severe features: utility of bedside brachial artery Doppler - Jenna Racine, Ryan Pewowaruk, Alejandro Roldan-Alzate, Ian Bird, Jason Austin, Dinesh Shah, J. Igor Iruretagoyena
Diabetes Distress Scores and Black race predicts poorer diabetes control in third trimester - Jennifer Jacobson, Amy Godecker, Jennifer Janik, April Eddy, Jacquelyn Adams
Is an isolated short femur an indication for growth ultrasounds? - Erin Bailey, Brad Bosse, Madeline Wetterhahn, J. Igor Iruretagoyena, Janine Rhoades, Jacquelyn Adams
Predicting small for gestational age infants: is it time to update the Hadlock model? - Joseph Chou, Brad Bosse, Madeline Wetterhahn, Jacquelyn Adams
Do obese women without comorbid conditions need a growth ultrasound during pregnancy? - Madeline Wetterhahn, Kathleen Antony, Brad Bosse, Jacquelyn Adams
Congratulations to all!
Three UW Ob-Gyn faculty served as ABOG subspecialty board examiners in Texas this year!
Dobie Giles, MD, MS, MBA, professor in the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Lisa Barroilhet, MD, MS, associate professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and Igor Iruretagoyena, MD, MS, professor and director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, each served as a board examiner for their respective subspecialties.
It's an exciting department accomplishment to have three faculty serve as subspecialty board examiners. Thank you all for your work supporting the next generation of FPMRS, Gynecologic Oncology, and MFM physicians!
Later this year, the UW Ob-Gyn Finance Committee will undergo a leadership change: Igor Iruretagoyena, MD, MS, professor and director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, will become the new Vice Chair of Finance, effective July 1, 2023. He will follow Dobie Giles, MD, MS, MBA, associate professor in the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, who has been the Vice Chair of Finance since 2017. Please help us congratulate Dr. Iruretagoyena on this new role!
Dr. Iruretagoyena brings a great deal of leadership and operational experience to this role. In addition to leading a complex, active division for eight years, he has been a member of the UW Ob-Gyn Finance Committee since 2014 and the Clinical Operations Committee since 2015. In the last few years, he has also joined the Board of Directors for Generations Fertility Care and the steering committee for the UW Health Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center. These experiences have prepared him to be a highly effective Vice Chair of Finance.
Congratulations, Dr. Iruretagoyena, and sincere thanks to Dr. Giles!
On February 9, 2023, UW Ob-Gyn Professor and Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Communication milestones for the OB/GYN resident”.
In the lecture, Iruretagoyena summarized the new Ob-Gyn milestones from ACGME, defined the different components needed to advance in the milestones, identified tools needed to accomplish the milestones, and outlined the integration of this knowledge as part of residency.
Watch the whole lecture here!
Huge congratulations to UW Ob-Gyn Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD! He was invited to serve as an American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology examiner for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine certifying exams in April 2023.
Iruretagoyena has previously served as an ABOG examiner for the Obstetrics boards. Returning as an examiner for the MFM certifying boards is an incredible honor. Congratulations, Dr. Iruretagoyena!
Jenna Racine, MD, assistant professor in the UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, is the lead author on a new study published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal!
In “Perinatal Outcomes Associated With Institutional Changes Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Racine and co-authors (including Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD, and Kara Hoppe, DO, MS) used a retrospective cohort study of singleton births at one hospital. They compared birth outcomes of a pre-COVID and post-COVID group, finding:
“…significant changes in clinical practice secondary to policy changes and patient behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. As an institution that globally adopted ARRIVE (A Randomized Trial of Induction Versus Expectant Management) practices, we noted fewer inductions, more women presenting in labor and more women delivering at or after 41 weeks. We also noted a shorter length of hospital stay for the mother-baby dyad. Overall, these changes in clinical practice did not affect perinatal outcomes.”
Read the whole study here!
Huge congratulations to UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD! Iruretagoyena was selected to receive a UW Health 2021 Physician Excellence Clinical Practice Award, and was honored at the UW Health Physician Excellence Awards ceremony on November 30.
The Clinical Practice Award, which is nominated by peers, is a tremendous and well-deserved honor. Please help us congratulate Dr. Iruretagoyena!
Huge congratulations to UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD! Iruretagoyena was selected to receive a UW Health Physician Excellence 2021 Clinical Practice Award, and was honored at the UW Health Physician Excellence Awards ceremony on November 30.
The Clinical Practice Award, which is nominated by peers, is a tremendous and well-deserved honor. Please help us congratulate Dr. Iruretagoyena!
We are thrilled to announce that the UW School of Medicine and Public Health CHS Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee voted unanimously to promote UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD to the rank of Professor (CHS). The promotion will be effective July 1, 2022.
Iruretagoyena joined the UW Department of Ob-Gyn faculty in 2011, and became director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2015. Please help us congratulate him on this well-deserved honor!
A recent story on NBC-15 in Madison asked whether to expect a baby boom or baby bust in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, and how pregnancy care and delivery has changed because of the pandemic. UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruetagoyena, MD spoke with reporters about what pregnancy care and delivery look like for families now:
“Dr. Igor Iruretagoyena is a maternal-fetal medicine doctor who works with high-risk pregnancies at Unity-Point Health Meriter. He’s been delivering babies for 17 years and has been a high-risk doctor for almost 10 years. While many women have questions when it comes to labor and delivery, he said most questions revolved around COVID-19 protocols.
“Many women were asking about safety of being in the hospital thinking that the hospital is where most sick people are going to be,” said Dr. Iruretagoyena. “Our message has been very consistent from the get-go as much as we can to make the hospital a safe environment. It has proven to be a safe environment like most of the hospitals.””
Watch the interview here!
Our understanding of how COVID-19 and pregnancy interact has evolved quite a bit over the course of 2020. On this episode of the Women’s Healthcast, UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD discusses COVID and pregnancy – whether pregnant people are at higher risk of severe illness with COVID, if pregnant people are eligible for vaccination, and other things to think about if you’re considering pregnancy during a pandemic.
Listen to “Pregnancy, Vaccines and COVID-19” now.
Did you know the Women’s Healthcast is available on all your favorite podcast platforms? Whether you like to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Podbean, or anywhere else, you can find us! (Just search Women’s Healthcast, and while you’re at it, may as well subscribe!)
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many have questions about whether to try for pregnancy and what risks or complications the pandemic may pose for pregnant people. On Thursday, November 19, UW Ob-Gyn Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director Igor Iruretagoyena, MD spoke with WKOW-27 News in Madison about pregnancy in the time of COVID.
In the segment, he discusses whether pregnant people are at higher risk of severe illness, what we know so far about vertical transmission, and more.
Watch “Pregnant in a Pandemic: What are the Risks?” now.
