Fetal Medicine & Maternal Medicine Doctors near Elmhurst, NY

Biography: Dr. Sheen is the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She entered the field of maternal-fetal medicine after an established career in general obstetrics and gynecology and education, having received her medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine and followed with residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. She then practiced general obstetrics and gynecology and was the Associate Residency Director at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center prior to pursuing her fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Her experience with varying maternal medical and fetal disorders contributed to her interest in pursuing formal training in perinatology. During fellowship, Dr. Sheen continued her work with maternal medical disorders, obstetrics and gynecology education, patient safety and the quality assessment of patient care, besides developing her interests in evaluating fetal anomalies. Her research and interests have included studies of progesterone use in preventing preterm labor in patients with varying medical co-morbidities, radiologic imaging for evaluating pulmonary emboli in pregnancy, postpartum emergency room utilization, epigenetics of diabetes and obesity, as well as patient safety and resident education through simulation/hand-off training.

Biography: Lisa Nathan, MD, MPH is theChief of Obstetrics, Sloane Hospital for Women, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at CUMC. She completed her Ob/Gyn residency training at Montefiore/Einstein and stayed on to work for several years as an academic generalist. During this time, she founded the Global Women's Health Program for the Department with grant support from the Einstein Global Health Center and the U.S. Fulbright African Regional Research Program. Dr. Nathan also founded Einstein's Departmental Health Equity Task Force. The goal of this task force was to create a Departmental culture and workforce that understands the concepts of health disparities and structural racism, recognizes the ways in which society and the health system promote them, and works proactively to dismantle them. In addition to her clinical and administrative duties, Dr Nathan is also active within ACOG, where she is a member of the Safe Motherhood Initiative Steering Committee. She was the Chair of the Maternal Sepsis Bundle workgroup and is a current member of the Health Equity Subcommittee. She also serves as a consultant to the New York City Department of Health, where she serves as the Co-Chair of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee. In this role, she reviews events leading to maternal mortality for the majority of cases occurring in New York City. These reviews form the basis for the development of recommendations for city and state level initiatives to combat the root causes of the high maternal mortality rates in New York City.

Biography: Maria Andrikopoulou MD, PhD is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She joined the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Columbia after completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU Winthrop University Hospital, and fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Andrikopoulou specializes in the care of high-risk pregnancies, including women with medical complications and fetal anomalies. Her primary clinical and research interests include prenatal diagnosis, sonographic evaluation of fetal malformations and fetal echocardiogram. Dr. Andrikopoulou has presented at many national conferences and published several peer-reviewed research manuscripts and book chapters, focusing on clinical obstetrics, fetal ultrasound and perinatal epidemiology. She is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Biography: Blair Johnson Wylie, MD, MPH, is the Founding Director of The Collaborative for Women's Environmental Health at Columbia University and the Virgil G. Damon Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She also serves as the obstetric consultant to Region 1's Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Network (PEHSU). Dr. Wylie received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She studied epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she received her master's in public health. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington Medical Center and a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Wylie's clinical practice encompasses the full range of maternal-fetal medicine, including prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound, high risk obstetric conditions, caring for pregnant women hospitalized during pregnancy, and deliveries. She also offers women and their families consultation about how environmental exposures can impact the health of pregnancy and the developing fetus. In addition to her clinical and administrative roles, Dr. Wylie conducts research with a focus on global maternal/child health, with a particular interest in environmental exposures during pregnancy in international settings, such as smoke from cooking fires, pesticides from subsistence farming, and climate-related factors like heat and air pollution. She has ongoing projects in Ghana, Tanzania, Pakistan and India. She is co-Principal Investigator for Columbia University/Aga Khan University Research Unit in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. She previously chaired the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's Global Health Committee and now chairs the Foundation for SMFM's Queenan Fellowships for Global Health. Additionally, she recently completed a three-year term on the Board for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Biography: Stephanie Purisch, MD is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She joined the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Columbia after completing residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Purisch is the co-director of the Mothers Center Heart Program, which provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary clinical care to women with cardiovascular disease who are pregnant or contemplating pregnancy. Dr. Purisch's primary clinical and research interest is the care of women with medically complicated pregnancies. In addition to cardiac disease in pregnancy, she also has expertise caring for pregnant women with underlying maternal pulmonary, endocrine, rheumatologic, and hematologic diseases.

Biography: Dr. Heather Lipkind is the Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Weill Cornell. After receiving her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College, she went on to complete her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at New York University and fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. She also completed a master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Lipkind previously served as a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Director at the Yale School of Medicine.Dr. Lipkind has clinical experience and research expertise in perinatal epidemiology and birth outcomes. She is passionate about caring for patients. She collaborates on a number of studies focusing on maternal and fetal birth outcomes, including vaccine safety studies with two recent CDC awards examining the receipt of vaccines for COVID-19 in pregnancy. Her research examines associations between hypertension and psychiatric conditions and pregnancy outcomes as well as research with diverse pregnant populations. Dr. Lipkind serves as a Dual-PI for a PCORI project investigating a Community-Based, Family-Centered, Trauma-Informed Approach to Timely Detection and Management of early Postpartum Hypertension in response to the PCORI PFA Improving Postpartum Maternal Outcomes for Populations Experiencing Disparities. She has created programs that help patients understand the association of pregnancy-related health conditions with long-term health outcomes with a focus on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and cardiovascular disease. She is thrilled to be back in New York City.

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Biography: Dr. Ayisha Buckley is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist, as well as an Intensivist. Dr. Buckley focuses on high-risk pregnancy with special interest in severe maternal morbidity, cardio-obstetrics, health equity, global/international health, and medical education.Dr. Buckley earned her medical degree and bachelor's degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine, after completing a highly competitive combined MD/Bachelors program. She graduated magna cum laude and went on to complete her OB/GYN residency at Stony Brook University Medical Center, followed by a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Buckley subsequently completed an additional fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Anesthesia Critical Care.During her residency, she served as a medical student mentor and was honored with the Award for Excellence in Obstetrics as well as several medical students teaching awards, including the Resident Teaching Award. During her MFM Fellowship, she was inducted into the illustrious Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society.Dr. Buckley has been published in peer-reviewed journals and publications on topics like racial and ethnic disparities with the vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC) calculator as well as in the SARS-CoV-2 antibody response among pregnant women. Dr. Buckley is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Biography: Amanda Cassidy, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, CLC joined the team at Columbia University in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2022. Amanda is a board-certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who is trained in providing holistic, client-centered care for women from puberty through the adult lifespan. Her clinical interests include high risk pregnancy, maternal medical conditions, prenatal education, family planning and contraception counseling, the postpartum period, and access to postpartum sterilization. A core tenet of Amanda's comprehensive care is empowering patients to be active and informed members of their own healthcare team via excellent patient education and shared decision making. She is also a Certified Lactation Counseling and helps host weekly postpartum drop-in support groups for the Department of Ob/Gyn. Amanda completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice at Duke University in 2023 and is dedicated to evidence-based practice, nursing leadership, and the translation of research to clinical practice to improve health outcomes and care accessibility. She graduated with a Master of Science in Nursing from Duke University in 2021, and with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University at Vermont in 2017. Prior to her work as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, she was a Registered Nurse on labor and delivery and high-risk obstetrics units at academic medical centers, as well as a Registered Nurse in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Amanda is a member of the National Association for Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health and the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Care Philosophy: I have been privileged to care for generations of women; delivering thousands of babies; treating women with sensitivity while being at the cutting edge of new developments in ob/gyn I treat women of all ages and backgrounds through their reproductive years and beyond,, and have expertise in complications of pregnancy, postpartum depression, hormonal imbalance,, and menopause and osteoporosis management. I believe in a holistic approach to women's health care,including lifestyle modifications.