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Ending preventable stillbirth: A gift for all women
Author(s) -
Stringer Elizabeth M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/ijgo.12227
Subject(s) - medicine , obstetrics and gynaecology , family medicine , specialty , public health , obstetrics , pregnancy , nursing , genetics , biology
wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijgo | 237 © 2017 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Dr Stringer received her BS from Davidson College and her MD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. On completion of her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alabama Hospitals, she moved to Lusaka, Zambia, where she spent more than a decade engaged in clinical and operational research focused on improving the lives of pregnant women infected with HIV. In 2012, she and her family returned to the USA, where she completed a sub-specialty clinical fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at UNC. In 2015, she joined the UNC OBGYN faculty as Associate Professor. Throughout her career, Dr Stringer has conducted research at the intersection of obstetrics and public health. While in Zambia, she worked with local public health officials to implement a program to prevent motherto-child HIV transmission, which had served over 1.6 million women at the time of her return to the USA. She also conducted clinical trials in contraception, AIDS therapeutics in women, and neonatal circumcision. Although Dr Stringer now lives in North Carolina, she maintains strong ties to her colleagues at the University of Zambia and its affiliated University Teaching Hospital. She practices clinical Maternal Fetal Medicine at UNC and also conducts domestic obstetrics research. Dr Stringer serves on the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine’s Global Health Committee and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. She also serves on the combined board of American International Schools of Tangier and Marrakesh, Morocco.