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September 24, 2025

The Contemporary Cardio-Obstetrics Team


The field of Cardio-Obstetrics is focused on mitigating cardiovascular risk among pregnant and post-partum individuals. Due to the complexity of caring for pregnant people with acquired or congenital cardiac disease, patients with these conditions are increasingly managed in multidisciplinary Cardio-Obstetrics teams, which are now considered essential to optimize maternal care in high-risk patients. Cardio-Obstetrics teams are composed of multiple subspecialists and have at least 3 roles: (1) provide preconception counseling and risk stratification to patients with known cardiac disease, (2) organize prenatal and postpartum care for patients who develop or present with cardiac disease during pregnancy, and (3) plan for emergent care for patients whose pregnancy “unmasks”cardiac disease, whether acquired disease or an unknown ACHD. Here we describe our experience at Einstein/Montefiore to aid other institutions in developing their own programs.


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Register for the Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care Fall Learning Session


Our fall meeting will be held virtually on October 22 from 1200 – 1400 and will feature -


1200 – 1300, Dr. Cat Albright, Maternal Fetal Medicine from University of Washington will present on Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy.



Catherine Albright, MD MS is a board-certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist. Her primary focus is on high risk maternal conditions such as maternal cardiac disease and hypertension. Dr. Albright is the director of the Obstetric Hypertension Program and co-director of the Cardio-Obstetrics Program at UW Medical Center - Montlake.


Dr. Albright strives to help women through their complex and often emotional pregnancies by ensuring they understand each step of the process and by actively engaging them, their partners and their families at every visit.


Dr. Albright earned her MD from Columbia then did her OB/Gyn residency, MFM fellowship, and MS in Clinical and Translational research from Brown University. Her clinical and research interests include medical complications, critical care, cardiac disease including adult congenital heart disease, and sepsis in pregnancy, as well as cost-effectiveness analysis.


1300 – 1400, presentation of various QI projects from your colleagues throughout the state


-with discussion throughout


We look forward to meeting with you.

 
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Keith M Cochran

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