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Seminar Title: Uncovering fetal genetic disease: a focus on non-immune hydrops fetalis
May 23, 2024 - Dr. Teresa Sparks is an Associate Professor at UCSF who specializes in both Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics. In her clinical practice, Dr. Sparks cares for individuals through the Prenatal Diagnosis Center and the Fetal Treatment Center who are pregnant or considering pregnancy, particularly those that are higher risk due to fetal birth defects, fetal genetic diseases, and maternal genetic as well as non-genetic diseases. Dr. Sparks is the Program Director for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at UCSF and is an active mentor for many post-graduate students, residents, and fellows. In her role as a physician scientist, Dr. Sparks oversees an active NICHD-funded research program focused on non-immune hydrops fetalis, is an Investigator for the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, serves as Co-Director of the NICHD-funded Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR)/K12 Program at UCSF, and serves as the alternate PI for the NICHD-funded Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network award at UCSF. Her overall research goals are to uncover the full breadth of genetic diseases underlying non-immune hydrops fetalis, characterize genotype-phenotype relationships for genetic diseases that present in the fetal period, develop a precision-based approach to care for non-immune hydrops fetalis and other fetal anomalies, and work toward the development of novel in utero treatment approaches for fetal genetic diseases.
The NHGRI Center for Precision Health Research (CPHR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers on research relevant to the use of genomic data and large-scale electronic health record information to improve health. Speakers are selected by CPHR faculty and cover research topics of interest to a wide audience.
Relevant Links:
CPHR Seminar Series: genome.gov/cphr/seminars
Teresa Sparks: https://fetus.ucsf.edu/our-team/teresa-sparks-md/
Seminar Title: Uncovering fetal genetic disease: a focus on non-immune hydrops fetalis
May 23, 2024 - Dr. Teresa Sparks is an Associate Professor at UCSF who specializes in both Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics. In her clinical practice, Dr. Sparks cares for individuals through the Prenatal Diagnosis Center and the Fetal Treatment Center who are pregnant or considering pregnancy, particularly those that are higher risk due to fetal birth defects, fetal genetic diseases, and maternal genetic as well as non-genetic diseases. Dr. Sparks is the Program Director for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at UCSF and is an active mentor for many post-graduate students, residents, and fellows. In her role as a physician scientist, Dr. Sparks oversees an active NICHD-funded research program focused on non-immune hydrops fetalis, is an Investigator for the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, serves as Co-Director of the NICHD-funded Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR)/K12 Program at UCSF, and serves as the alternate PI for the NICHD-funded Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network award at UCSF. Her overall research goals are to uncover the full breadth of genetic diseases underlying non-immune hydrops fetalis, characterize genotype-phenotype relationships for genetic diseases that present in the fetal period, develop a precision-based approach to care for non-immune hydrops fetalis and other fetal anomalies, and work toward the development of novel in utero treatment approaches for fetal genetic diseases.
The NHGRI Center for Precision Health Research (CPHR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers on research relevant to the use of genomic data and large-scale electronic health record information to improve health. Speakers are selected by CPHR faculty and cover research topics of interest to a wide audience.
Relevant Links:
CPHR Seminar Series: genome.gov/cphr/seminars
Teresa Sparks: https://fetus.ucsf.edu/our-team/teresa-sparks-md/
