Tvina, Alina, MD

Dr. Alina Livshits Tvina joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in August 2022 in our Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine as a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow. She completed her undergraduate education in Medical Science and earned her medical degree from at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. During medical school her research focused on radiological imaging as a tool to predict disease course and therapy response. She then continued to a General Medicine residency and after two years moved to the United States to peruse a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

During residency her passion for research continued, and she participated in multiple research projects, focusing on health disparities in the pregnant population. Her residency thesis focused on environmental factors affecting health inequities and prenatal outcomes, for which she won a best residency project award in 2021. During this project she collaborated with the Institution for Health and Equity at MCW. Other projects Dr Tvina lead focused on high-risk maternal conditions and its effect on maternal-fetal health, including hypertension management postpartum, interventions for smoking secession in pregnancy and diabetic control. This work was featured in peer reviewed obstetric journals and scientific conferences. Her love for research got her to continue training in Maternal Fetal Medicine after residency, where she currently collaborates with the Department of Physiology at MCW to study molecular pathways of preeclampsia and its effect on the fetus.

Throughout her training Dr Tvina remains passionate about teaching and provides lectures to medical students at MCW as part of their OB/GYN curriculum and leads student workshops in obstetrical exams. During her fellowship she also mentors an OB/GYN resident with their residency clinical thesis and serves as a member of the residency research committee as well as on the departmental OB care quality committee. For her contribution to teaching she was honored with induction to the Alpha Omega Alpha society by MCW in 2020.

Dr Tvina published multiple articles in peer reviewed Journals and presented her work at local and international conferences.