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Dr. Jeffrey L. Ecker is a high-risk obstetrician and Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor at Harvard Medical School. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Medical School, he completed his OB/GYN residency at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and fellowships in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrical ultrasound at the University of California in San Francisco.
Dr. Ecker has filled many leadership roles in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, including his past service as Chair of the Committee on Obstetric Practice and current Vice-Chair of the Committee on Genetics. Dr. Ecker is a Founding Member of the Massachusetts Perinatal Quality Collaborative and serves on the Perinatal Advisory Committee for Leapfrog, a national quality measurement organization. Recently, he has helped lead efforts to address care of women and families affected by substance use disorder during pregnancy.
Dr. Ecker's academic and clinical interests include work in the areas of reproductive ethics and quality, equity and safety. In each of those arenas, he works to identify and reduce, if not vanish, disparities in care and outcomes with a goal of providing all with truly equitable care.
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ACOG Committee on Obstetric Practice. Collaborators Wax JR, Ecker JL. Committee Opinion No. 679: Immersion in Water During Labor and Delivery. Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Nov;128(5):e231-e236.
Iezzoni LI, Wint AJ, Smeltzer SC, Ecker JL. Recommendations about Pregnancy from Women with Mobility Disability to Their Peers. Women's Health Issues. 2017 Jan - Feb;27(1):75-82.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine., Kilpatrick SK, Ecker JL. Severe maternal morbidity: screening and review. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep;215(3):B17-22.
Oberg AS, D'Onofrio BM, Rickert ME, Hernandez-Diaz S, Ecker JL, Almqvist C, Larsson H, Lichtenstein P, Bateman BT. Association of Labor Induction With Offspring Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Sep 6;170(9):e160965.
Ecker J, Abuhamad A, Hill W, Bailit J, Bateman BT, Berghella V, Blake-Lamb T, Guille C, Landau R, Minkoff H, Prabhu M, Rosenthal E, Terplan M, Wright TE, Yonkers KA. Substance use disorders in pregnancy: clinical, ethical, and research imperatives of the opioid epidemic: a report of a joint workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American Society of Addiction Medicine. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Jul;221(1):B5-B28. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.03.022. Epub 2019 Mar 27.
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A medida que la vacuna esté disponible para las personas en todo EE.UU., hay muchas preguntas sobre la recepción de la misma durante el embarazo o la lactancia.
根据数据显示,怀孕人群患新型冠状病毒重症的风险更高,而且有新的数据表明,新型冠状病毒疫苗对怀孕人群是安全且有效的,美国疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)以及两家最大规模的妇产科组织——美国妇产科医师学会(ACOG)和母婴医学学会(SMFM)——现在建议所有怀孕人士接种新型冠状病毒疫苗。
استنادًا إلى البيانات التي توضح أن الحوامل معرضات لخطر مرتفع للإصابة الحادة بفيروس كوفيد-19 والبيانات الجديدة التي تظهر أن لقاحات كوفيد-19 آمنة وفعالة أثناء الحمل، توصي حاليًا مراكز السيطرة على الأمراض والوقاية منها بالإضافة إلى أكبر مؤسستين معنيتين بأمراض النساء والولادة جميع الحوامل بتلقي اللقاح.
In February, Jeffrey Ecker, MD, chief of the OB/GYN Department and chair of the Executive Committee on Community Health, has a long-standing commitment to community health. He reflects on the importance of community health for Mass General today and the role it has played in the OB/GYN Department.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Jeff Ecker, chief of Obstetrics/Gynecology, as the new chair of the Executive Committee on Community Health (ECOCH).