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The Deborah Kelly Center for Clinical Research (DKC) works to help investigators within the OB/GYN Department and beyond to provide the evidence to help clinicians understand the implications of our health care practices and make decisions in women’s healthcare based on the best evidence available and informed by the priorities of our patients.
The Deborah Kelly Center for Clinical Research serves as the core for clinical research within the department by:
Researchers in the DKC have published across a wide range of journals. Below is a selection of our latest publications.
Group members of the Deborah Kelly Center (DKC) are dedicated to the mission of increasing exemplary obstetrical and gynecologic outcomes through research-based initiatives in women’s health care.
Trevin (pronounced Tre-veen) Lau, MD
The state-of-the-art research conducted in the OB/GYN Department is focused on improving obstetric and gynecologic care for women across the lifespan.
Find information on OB/GYN residency, fellowship and other continuing medical education opportunities.
Information for health care professionals about the latest OB/GYN breakthroughs, research and clinical advances from Mass General.
A new team research effort seeks to shed light on how mothers pass immunity to their babies during pregnancy and lactation.
Many new parents are currently experiencing the significant shortage of infant formula that will likely take months before it is fully resolved. But in the meantime, parents and caregivers still need to find safe and healthy human milk or formula to feed their babies.
Allison Bryant Mantha, MD, MPH, helped to develop a proposal aimed at closing the gap in obstetric outcomes (including maternal morbidity, rate of cesarean deliveries among first time mothers and breastfeeding) for women at risk of adverse outcomes.
It is difficult to advise a woman about the safety of medications in pregnancy since there might be long-term drug effects of which we are unaware. Each woman has to weigh the benefits versus the risks.
After a trip to the Philippines, Blake Rainie Slack, CNM, was so inspired by the national policy work in women’s and family health being done by the midwives there that she decided to change careers when she returned to the US. She has now been a midwife for 13 years.
When Colleen became pregnant in 2020, every twinge of pain filled her with anxiety. She had been cared for by a local midwife during her first pregnancy, but wanted extra reassurance given what she had been through. Find out how Mass General was there for her.
OB/GYN Advances is an update for health care professionals from specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital on research and clinical advances in obstetrics and gynecology.