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 Prof. Rohan D’Souza University of Toronto, Canada |
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| Title: Induction of labour in low-risk women: Is 39 the new 41? | |
| Abstract:
This presentation summarises published evidence on pregnancy outcomes at various stages of gestation in an attempt to determine the best time to induce labour in low-risk women to optimise maternal and fetal/neonatal outcomes, while simultaneously lowering caesarean section rates.
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| Biography:
Rohan is a specialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, Clinician-Investigator
at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology at the University of Toronto and a PhD candidate in Clinical Epidemiology at the
Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
His clinical interests include medical disorders in pregnancy with a focus on cardiac,
endocrinologic, neurologic, renal, hypertensive and rare medical/surgical disorders, as well as the
care of the critically ill pregnant patient.
In 2016 he received the CIHR Women’s Health Research Award for his work on pregnancy
outcomes in women with mechanical heart valves and the International Lee-Lusted Award for
his work on eliciting patient-preferences for health states related to the use of anticoagulants in
pregnancy.
His research interests include the conduct of patient-preference studies and decision analysis
studies in obstetrics; the development of core-outcome sets (COS) for pregnant women with
medical disorders, the creation of prediction rules for various obstetric and medical conditions
and the conduct of clinical trials and observational studies aimed at reducing rates of postpartum
haemorrhage and improving the success of labour induction.
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