Women's Health

Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD

Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar

Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.

Guest: Karin J. Blakemore, MD

Guest: Emilie L. Vander Haar

Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can lead to substantial medical challenges for the mother, fetus, and neonate. Diagnosis is often difficult without low platelet counts or frank bleeding. But a mother’s risk for FNAIT can be assessed, and existing and newly emerging therapies can act as preventive measures and improve fetus/neonate outcomes. Join Drs. Karin Blakemore and Emilie Vander Haar as they address many of the issues surrounding the management of FNAIT and offer clear and actionable suggestions for you to bring into your clinical practice.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: Sawsan As-Sanie, MD

Guest: Linda Bradley, MD

Endometriosis is often called a public health crisis for women. The delay in diagnosis can be greater than 10 years, during which time women suffer many physical and psychosocial issues that negatively impact their quality of life. Join Drs. Lee Shulman, Sawsan As-Sanie, and Linda Bradley as they identify strategies to overcome the diagnostic delay and its associated consequences.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: Linda Bradley, MD

Guest: Melissa Simon, MD

Both provider- and patient-related healthcare disparities exist in the diagnosis and management of endometriosis. Many disparities derive from incorrect historical biases, while others are associated with social determinants of health, or SDOH. Join Drs. Lee Shulman, Linda Bradley, and Melissa Simon as they address these issues to help facilitate a patient-centered practice environment for all patients.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: Linda Bradley, MD

Guest: Melissa Simon, MD

The use of validated patient questionnaires, notably the SF-36 and EHP-30 scales, can greatly hasten the suspicion for an endometriosis diagnosis. Coupled with shared decision-making, or SDM, this patient-centered process can help ensure therapeutic adherence. Join Drs. Lee Shulman, Melissa Simon, and Linda Bradley as they discuss how to utilize the SF-36 and EHP-30 questionnaires in clinical practice and explore strategies to facilitate patient-healthcare provider discussions to improve overall short- and long-term patient outcomes.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: Ayman Al-Hendy, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACOG, CCRP

Guest: Sawsan As-Sanie, MD

GnRH antagonists have emerged as a viable first-line (or subsequent-line) medical therapy for the management of endometriosis. They have proven to be effective and safe, and their use avoids the flare response observed with GnRH agonists. Join Drs. Lee Shulman, Ayman Al-Hendy, and Sawsan As-Sanie as they discuss the estrogen threshold hypothesis from the perspective of GnRH antagonists and delve into clinical data supporting the use of GnRH antagonists in the medical management of endometriosis.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: Ayman Al-Hendy, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACOG, CCRP

Guest: James A. Simon, MD, CCD, NCMP, IF, FACOG

While both medical therapy and surgery often play a role in a woman’s journey with endometriosis, it is less clear how to best sequence these approaches to optimize a patient’s outcomes. Under what circumstances should you consider using a GnRH antagonist either before or after conservative surgery? Join Drs. Lee Shulman, Ayman Al-Hendy, and James Simon as they provide their collective thoughts on how best to sequence a GnRH antagonist with conservative surgery when managing endometriosis.

Host: Warner K. Huh, MD

Guest: Kimberly Levinson, MD, MPH

More effective triage tests are essential to improving cervical cancer risk-stratification and thus reducing the potential for unnecessary colposcopies. Enduring consensus cervical cancer screening recommendations, published in 2024, describe specific-use algorithms for p16/Ki-67 dual-staining cytology as an effective triage test, and also offer insight on how this test can best fit into clinical practice. Join Drs. Warner Huh and Kimberly Levinson as they first establish the rationale for using p16/Ki-67 dual-staining cytology and then break down the most salient algorithms for its use as offered in the recent recommendations.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci

This program is no longer available for credit.

Renowned international expert Dr. Roberto Romero joins Dr. Lee Shulman to walk us through maternal anti-fetal rejection. Find out about its pathophysiology, mechanisms of disease, approach to diagnosis, and potential treatment so that you can broaden your understanding and improve the care you provide.

Host: Lee P. Shulman, MD, FACMG, FACOG

Guest: James B. Bussel, MD

This program is no longer available for credit.

Program Chairman:
Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci
Chief, Perinatology Research Branch
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics
Division of Intramural Research
NICHD/NIH/DHHS
Editor-in-Chief for Obstetrics
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

As the platelet equivalent of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) is an uncommon yet complex and life-threatening bleeding disorder that results from incompatibility between mother and baby for platelet-specific antigens. Despite relatively normal platelet function, in the setting of severe thrombocytopenia, intracranial hemorrhage is a consequence. Drs. Shulman and Bussel discuss advances in management strategies and concrete steps you can take to lower the risk and stop the progression of this disorder in your patients.