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Research Seminar: Computational models of pregnancy – from understanding physiology to reducing complications? – Dr. Alys Clark
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Meeting ID: 693 4383 4453
Passcode: 608808
Location:
SHRM 1005 (Design Studio 2), Gordon B. Shrum Building
For most people, pregnancy has a healthy outcome, and each of us is an outcome of a pregnancy. Unfortunately, around 10% of pregnancies have significant complications, the most significant being loss of the pregnancy (or stillbirth). Conditions that contribute to stillbirth like fetal growth restriction also result in increased risk of health complications like cardiovascular disease late in life. Pregnancy is dynamic, with the baby growing from just two cells in a nine-month period, but observation of a pregnancy is infrequent, and low resolution in modern medical terms. I will present data that we have collected and worked with that describes the anatomy and physiology of healthy and not so healthy pregnancies, and how we work to integrate these data into mathematical models of the uterus, placenta and the fetus in pregnancy and open-source efforts to predict physiological function in pregnancy. Finally, I’ll discuss the cumulation of some of these efforts into models that potentially could be used as clinical tools in real time to make decisions regarding management of at-risk pregnancies.
Dr. Alys Clark’s Biography: