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, is a board-certified perinatologist and chair and professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Gyamfi-Bannerman specializes in caring for women with high-risk pregnancies. Perinatologists, also known as maternal-fetal medicine specialists, care for patients who may have obstetric complications with gestational diabetes, preeclampsia and thrombophilias. She is internationally recognized for her work in this area, with a primary focus on preterm birth, both in prevention and in the use of antenatal corticosteroids, or steroids.
Gyamfi-Bannerman joined UC San Diego School of Medicine in July 2021 as chair and professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences. She finds it rewarding to be part of an academic medical center where leading edge research and clinical care are combined – a place where patients have the opportunity to enroll in clinical trials and receive life-saving treatments.

Dr. Kristin Tully is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, she Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is engaging perinatal patients, family members, and clinicians to understand and address their health needs. Broadly, this work advances health equity by strengthening systems of care to address what individuals need to know, feel, and have happen over time to be safe and well.
Dr. Tully’s program of research leverages community engagement, mixed methods, and human factors engineering to iteratively shape understanding of healthcare strengths/problems and co-develop solutions for effectiveness, sustainability, and spread. She led development of a patented medical device for use with mother-newborn couplets during inpatient postpartum care, the Couplet Care Bassinet. Currently, Dr. Tully represents the UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the National Quality Forum.
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