OHSU marks 15 years supporting pregnancy research

Multidisciplinary maternal-fetal medicine team works to improve long-term health of mothers, their children

By Angela Yeager December 16, 2024 Portland, Oregon

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Donla Gyalnub, a clinical research assistant, processes blood samples in lab. This is one example of the type of work that the Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit, known informally as the “Pregnancy Research Group,” has done for the past 15 years to assist research studies involving pregnant individuals. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit

Research assistants Olivia Hagen and Lorraine Codding conduct a basal plate tissue sampling and villous tissue sampling of a placenta. This is one example of the type of work that the Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit, known informally as the “Pregnancy Research Group,” has done for the past 15 years to assist research studies involving pregnant individuals. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit

A patient receives intravenous iron therapy for anemia at the OHSU Early Phase Clinical Trial Infusion Unit at the Center for Health and Healing Building 2, 12th floor. This is one example of the type of work that the Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit, known informally as the “Pregnancy Research Group,” has done for the past 15 years to assist research studies involving pregnant individuals. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Monica Rincon, M.D., MCR (OHSU)

Christian Huertas Pagan (OHSU)

Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit

Research assistants Olivia Hagen and Lorraine Codding work in the Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Unit. Known informally as the “Pregnancy Research Group,” their team for the past 15 years assists in research studies involving pregnant individuals. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)