This blog is written by student members of the Summer 2021 Prenatal Team. The team consists of Claire Dawson, Dipra Debnanth, Stephanie Ganzi, Leena Ghrayeb, Meghana Kandiraju, Amanda Naccarato, and Harini Pennathur.
Hello! This is the Prenatal team here at CHEPS! We work with Dr. Alex Friedman Peahl, a practicing OB-GYN physician at Michigan Medicine, to improve prenatal care. The current prenatal guidelines involve a large number of prenatal visits, yet the U.S. still leads in maternal mortality rates amongst developed nations. Dr. Peahl highlighted this discrepancy and emphasized the idea that a large number of prenatal visits may not actually improve postpartum outcomes, and that we may need to refocus our efforts away from providing a “one-size fits all” pre-determined care framework and rather toward providing tailored care to our patient population (through telehealth, social work, or other non-traditional services). Continue Reading »