
20 May 2023 Resident and Fellow Research & Alumni Day
Resident and Fellow Research and Alumni Day is an annual event where our residents and graduating fellow present their clinical, translational science, and educational research results within their residency and fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
You must register for this in-person event:
Schedule:
Time | Activity |
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7:15am | BREAKFAST |
7:45am | WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS |
8:00am | Yiwen Cui, MD, MFM Fellow O-GlcNAc transferase contributes to sex-specific placental deregulation in gestational diabetes Mentor: Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD |
8:15am | Lindsay McAlarnen, MD GYN ONC Fellow Exosomal FXR1 as a translational mediator in the ovarian cancer microenvironment Mentor:Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, PhD |
8:30am | Rebekah Summey, MD GYN ONC Fellow Exploration and exploitation of hormonal pathways in adult granulosa cell tumors for development of targeted therapeutics Mentors: Elizabeth Hopp, MD and Janet S. Rader, MD |
8:45am | Alex Levy, MD, R4 Is One Superior? Comparison of Early Removal Rates of Intrauterine Device versus Nexplanon Subdermal Implant in Women Ages 16-24 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mentor: Jessica Francis, MD |
9:00am | Rana Aliani, MD R3 Impact of Race, Insurance, and Procedural Timing on Sterilization Method Mentor: Ben Beran, MD |
9:15am | Mary Siracusa, MD R3 Determining Patients’ Preferred Ultrasound Provider During the Preoperative Evaluation of Endometriosis Mentor: Ben Beran, MD |
9:30am | BREAK |
9:45am | Iman Khan, MD R3 Postpartum Care in a Post-COVID Era Mentors: Amy Domeyer, MD and Erika Peterson, MD |
10:00am | Blake Neuburg, MD R3 Inpatient Versus Outpatient Management of Gestational Hypertension or Preeclampsia Without Severe Features Mentor: Anna Palatnik, MD |
10:15am | Ankita Sarawagi, MD R3 Screening rates for intimate partner violence (IPV) in the OBGYN clinic from 2019 to 2022 Mentor: Kim Gecsi, MD |
10:30am | Margaret Bruce, MD R3 Evaluating Modern Contraceptive Methods as Risk Factors for Recurrent UTI’s Mentor: Sumana Koduri, MD |
10:45am | BREAK |
11:00am | The Roland S. Cron Lecture: Nandini Raghuraman, MD, MS Fellowship Program Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Assistant Professor, OB/GYN Washington University School of Medicine "Moving Evidence into Clinical Practice on Labor & Delivery" |
12:00pm | Questions for Dr. Raghuraman |
12:30pm | Lunch |

Featuring The Roland S. Cron Lectureship
Guest Speaker
Nandini Raghuraman, MD MSCI
Fellowship Program Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Assistant Professor, OB/GYN
Washington University School of Medicine
About Dr. Raghuraman
Nandini Raghuraman, MD, MSCI, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Washington University in St Louis and the MFM Fellowship Program Director. She is a NIH-funded physician scientist with expertise in Labor & Delivery clinical trials and implementation science in obstetrics. She has authored over 70 peer reviewed manuscripts and is currently leading a multicenter randomized trial investigating the effect of maternal oxygen supplementation in labor for fetal resuscitation.