Yair Blumenfeld
Academic Appointments
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Obstetrics Clinic 770 Welch Rd Ste 201 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 498-4069 Fax (650) 498-2583Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Obstetrics
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
Administrative Appointments
- Obstetrics Practice Committee, ACOG (2009 - 2011)
- District IX, Junior Fellow Chair, ACOG (2008 - 2009)
- Associate Member Representative, SMFM (2008 - 2009)
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Clinical Fellow, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Stanford University (2008)
Professional Education
| Fellowship: | Stanford University, Maternal-Fetal Medicine (2009) |
| Residency: | Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY (2006) |
| Internship: | Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY (2003) |
| Medical Education: | Sackler School of Medicine, Israel (2002) |
Scientific Focus
Research Interests
prenatal diagnosis, genetics, clinical obstetrics
Publications
- Microfluidic digital PCR enables rapid prenatal diagnosis of fetal aneuploidy. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2009; (5): 543.e1-7
- Prematurity Prevention - The Role of Acute Tocolysis Curr Opin Obstet & Gynecol. 2009; (136-41)
- Noninvasive diagnosis of fetal aneuploidy by shotgun sequencing DNA from maternal blood. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008; (42): 16266-71
- Single- versus double-layer uterine incision closure and uterine rupture. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2006; (10): 639-43
- Fetal urinoma as a sign of a dysplastic kidney. Pediatr Nephrol. 2003; (1): 65-7
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