Sarah Laughon Curriculum Vitae

Investigator, Epidemiology Branch
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
National Institutes of Health
Building 6100, Room 7B03
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: 301-435-6935
Fax: 301-402-2084
laughonsk@mail.nih.gov

Faculty, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Washington Hospital Center
Women’s and Infants’ Services
106 Irving Street, NW Suite 3800
Washington, D.C. 20010
Phone: 202-877-6604
Fax: 202-877-8695
Sarah.K.Laughon@medstar.net

Education:

2011	Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health
2009	M.S., Clinical Research, Clinical Research Training Program, University of Pittsburgh
2009	Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Magee-Womens Hospital
2004	Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2000	M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
1996	M.S., Anatomy, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
1995	B.S., Biology, Duke University

Academic and Professional Experience:

Research Fellow – Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 2011 – 2012

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2010 – Present

Faculty, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, 2009 – Present

Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Magee-Womens Hospital, 2006 – 2009

Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University Bellevue Hospital, 2005 – 2006

Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University Tisch Hospital, 2004 – 2006

Licensure:

State: District of Columbia
License No: MD038060
Initial Date: 6/3/2009
Renewal/Expiration Date: 12/31/2012

State: Maryland License
No: D0070243
Initial Date: 2/3/2010
Renewal/Expiration Date: 9/30/2012

Certification:

Board Certification: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date of Certification: 11/10/2006
Date of Re-certification: 12/31/2013

Specialty Board: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date of Certification: 04/18/2012
Date of Re-certification: 12/31/2013

Honors and Awards:

First Place Fellow Poster Presentation, for Elevated first trimester uric acid is associated with the development of gestational diabetes. Magee-Womens Hospital Research Day, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.

Irene McLenahan Young Investigator Award. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2008.

Summer Institute in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology. Jointly sponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the Canadian Institute for Health Research, 2008.

Second Place Poster Presentation for, Prior cesarean and the risk for placenta previa on second-trimester ultrasonography. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists District IV Meeting, 2003.

Organon Research Scholarship Award: Awarded for resident research presentation, Prior cesarean and the risk for placenta previa on second-trimester ultrasonography. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.

Honorary Emergency Medicine Resident Award: selected by the emergency medicine residents as the best off-service resident rotating through the E.D. that year), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

Professional Societies:

Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research
Student Member, 2010 – Present

Society for Epidemiologic Research
Student Member, 2011 – Present

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Associate Member, 2007 – Present

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Fellow, 2008 – Present
Junior Fellow, 2001 – 2007

Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Individual Fellow, 2005 – Present

Scientific Review Service:

Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer

American Journal of Hypertension
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
American Journal of Perinatology Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Pediatrics

Extramural Grant Review

NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Research, 2009.

Meeting Abstract Reviewer

The Annual Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research Meeting, 2011-2012. The Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research Meeting, 2012.

University Service:

Member, Bellevue Quality and Assurance Issues Committee, New York University, 2005 – 2006.

Mentor for Nurse Practitioner, New York University Tisch Hospital, 2005 – 2006.

Mentor, Dean's Committee on Women Mentoring Program, New York University School of Medicine, 2005 – 2006.

Member, Bellevue Pharmacy Committee, New York University, 2005 – 2006.

Student member – Admissions committee, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, 1999 – 2000.

Teaching Activities:

Clerkship Directorship

Associate Director of Medical Student Clerkship, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University, New York, 2005 – 2006. Number of students: 20-30 per rotation.

Teaching Recognition/Awards

Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics/Solvay Scholars Program, 2006.

Golden Tarheel Student Teaching Award, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

Lectures for DESPR Summer Course

2011	Normal Labor

Lectures for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellows

2012	Hematologic Disorders in Pregnancy
2011	Hematologic Disorders in Pregnancy
2010	Chorioamnionitis in Intact Membranes (Preterm Labor)
2009	Disorders of the Fetal Chest

Lectures for Residents and Medical Students

2010	Normal and Abnormal Labor
2009	Intrauterine Growth Restriction
2006	Preterm Labor
2005	Benign Breast Disease
2005	Ectopic Pregnancy

Mentoring:

NIH Summer Student Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship

2012	Jennifer O’Loughlin, MD student, The Commonwealth Medical College Project title: The effects of maternal psychiatric illness on length of gestation.
2011	Sahel Hazrati, MPH student, George Mason University Project title: Increased neonatal respiratory morbidity in pregnancies complicated by gestational and pregestational diabetes.

NIH Intramural Research Training Award Fellows (IRTAs)

2012	Stefanie Hinkle, PhD, Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow. Project title: The association of parity with birth weight in consecutive pregnancies.
2011 – 2012	Gaurav Ghosh, BS, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma. IRTA Post-Baccalaureate Fellow. Subsequent position: Medical student, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University. Project title: Racial/ethnic differences in pregnancy related hypertensive disease among nulliparous women.

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Residents Current Fellows

2012	Jasbir Singh, MD Project title: Racial disparities in labor induction.
2012	Julia Timofeev, MD Project title: Advanced maternal age and adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents Current Residents

2012	Stacia Crochet, MD Project title: Correlation of the spot urine protein-to-creatinine ratio with the 24 hour urine protein assessment.

Students

2009	Roberto Aguila Ceron, guest intern from the American Fellows Program comentored with Dr. Buck Louis. Project title: Epidemiologic survey of maternal pregnancy morbidities. Adapted the NCHS birth certificate into a version for El Salvador in order for with plans for interventions and ultimate improvement in maternal and neonatal outcomes.
2008	Traci Provins, college student and intern at the Magee-Womens Research Institute High School Summer Program Project title: Can early uric acid levels predict metabolic and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and does it relate to maternal BMI?
2008	Anne McGinty, high school student and intern at the Magee-Womens Research Institute High School Summer Program Project title: Does high uric acid early in pregnancy harm babies?
2008	Valerie Alstadt, high school student and intern at the Magee-Womens Research Institute High School Summer Program Project title: Can high circulating uric acid levels early in pregnancy predict increases in blood pressure during pregnancy?

Intramural Research Support:

Current

Measurement of Biospecimens in the Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction (EAGeR)
Trial. Co-PI with Mumford.
2012 – 2014, total contract amount $ 2,102,020.

NICHD Fetal Growth Studies. PI: Buck Louis (2011 – present). Previous PI: J. Zhang (20082011). Role: Co-Investigator from 2010 – present.
2008 – 2013, total contract amount $31,291,048 (R&D funding originally under J. Zhang).

Air Quality and Women’s Reproductive Health. PI: Mendola. Role: Co-Investigator. 2011, total contract amount $494,458.

Reproductive effects of in utero exposure to Chernobyl fallout in an iodine deficient region of
Ukraine. PI: Hatch. Role: Co-Investigator.
2011 – 2013, total $120,550.

Consortium on Safe Labor. Co-PI with Grewal (2012 – present); Previous PI: Grewal (2011 –
2012), J. Zhang (2006-2011). Previous role: Co-Investigator (2009 – 2012).
2006 – 2010, total contract amount $3,279,991 (R&D funding originally under J. Zhang).

A Database to Examine the Association of the Occurrence and Timing of Adverse Pregnancy
Outcomes among Consecutive Pregnancies. PI: Albert. Role: Co-Investigator.
2009-2010, total $451,000.

Grants:

NTD Laboratories Clinical Research Grant
Association between pregnancy-associated plasma protein A, free-beta subunit human chorionic gonadotropin and adverse pregnancy outcomes in twin gestations.
Dates of Project Period: 2005-2006
Role on Project: Principal Investigator
Total Dollar Amount: $2500

Invited Talks and Seminars:

Is the Friedman Curve Obsolete? The 25th Annual Rochester Regional Perinatal Conference, Rochester Academy of Medicine, Rochester, New York, May 2012.

Timing of Delivery: Current Practice and Existing Data Gaps. The 25th Annual Rochester Regional Perinatal Conference, Rochester Academy of Medicine, Rochester, New York, May 2012.

Is the Friedman Curve Obsolete? North Carolina Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 2012.

Cervical Length Measurement. Washington Hospital Center Sonology Conference, Washington, D.C, September 2011.

Caffeine and Pregnancy. Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University Grand Rounds, Washington, D.C., May 2011.

Caffeine and Pregnancy. Wake Forest University Grand Rounds, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, May 2008.

Media Images of Ob-Gyns: Where are Medical Students Getting their Cues for Professional Behavior? (Chuang AW, Laughon SK, Manriquez M), Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Faculty Development Seminar, Maui, Hawaii, January 2008.

Teamwork in Medicine: Lessons Learned from the Business World. (Buckley A, Laughon SK, Tasillo D), Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Faculty Development Seminar, Maui, Hawaii, January 2008.

What You Always Wanted to Ask Your Gynecologist But Never Did. Initiative for Women with Disabilities, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, November 2005.

Presentations at Scientific Meetings:

(*First author a Fellow, Resident, or Student.)

Oral Presentations:

Bowers K, Laughon SK, Kim SD, Mumford S, Brite J, Zhang C. Medical History of Depression and Risk for Gestational Diabetes - Findings From a Large Population-Based Cohort in the United States. Annual Society for Epidemiologic Research Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2012.
Bowers K, Laughon SK, Kim SD, Mumford S, Brite J, Zhang C. Medical History of Depression and Risk for Gestational Diabetes - Findings From a Large Population-Based Cohort in the United States. Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2012.
Laughon SK, Hazrati S, Bowers K, Zhang C, Grewal U. Increased Neonatal Respiratory Morbidity Associated With Gestational and Pregestational Diabetes. Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, Dallas, TX, February 2012.

Poster Presentations:

Laughon SK on behalf of the NICHD Fetal Growth Study. Characterization of abnormal fetal growth patterns in relation to pregnancy complications using data from the NICHD Fetal Growth Study. International Fetal Growth Conference, Birmingham, UK, September 2012.
Mendola P, Laughon SK, Männistö TI, Zhang J, Leishear K, Reddy U, Chen Z. Pregnancy complications associated with asthma. American College of Epidemiology, Chicago, IL, September 2012. Best Poster Award winner.
Laughon SK, McClain A, Sundaram R, Buck Louis GM. Maternal serum lipids and length of gestation. Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2012.
*Ghosh G, Laughon SK, Mendola P, Chen Z, Mannisto T, Xie Y, Grewal J. Racial/ethnic differences in pregnancy related hypertensive disease among nulliparous women. Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2012.
Bowers K, Laughon SK, Kiely M, Brite J, Zhang C. Gestational diabetes, pre-pregnancy obesity, and pregnancy weight gain and excess fetal growth: variations by race/ethnicity. Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 2012.
Aliaga S, Laughon SK, Long DL, Herring AH, Laughon MM, Boggess K, Reddy UM, Zhang J. Center variation in non-spontaneous late preterm births. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2012.
Mendola P, Laughon SK, Grewal J, Zhang J. Complications of labor and delivery among U.S. women with asthma, Consortium on Safe Labor. International Society for
Environmental Epidemiology Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 2011.
Laughon SK, Zhang J, Grewal J, Sundaram R, Beaver J, Reddy UM. Induction of labor in contemporary obstetrical practice. Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, June 2011.
Laughon SK, Zhang J, Troendle J, Sun L, Reddy UM. Simplifying the Bishop score. Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 2011.
Branch DW, Laughon SK, Troendle J, Beaver J, Zhang J. Current labor outcomes compared to those when “I Want to Hold Your Hand Was # 1.” Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 2011.
Sciscione A, Zhang J, Laughon SK, Reddy U, Hoffman M. The duration of labor induction and maternal and neonatal outcomes. Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 2011.
Laughon SK, Reddy UM, Sun L, Zhang J. Precursors for late preterm birth in singleton gestations. Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research, Seattle, WA, June 2010.
Laughon SK, Powers RW, Roberts JM, Parana S, Catov J. Caffeine is associated with insulin resistance in mid-gestation. Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 2010.
Laughon SK, Catov J, Powers RW, Roberts JM, Gandley RE. First trimester uric acid and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Society for Gynecologic Investigation Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2009.
Laughon SK, Catov J, Bech BH, Olsen J. High coffee intake is associated with increased risk for gestational diabetes in nonsmokers. Society for Gynecologic Investigation Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2009.
Laughon SK, Catov J, Provins T, Roberts JM, Gandley RE. First trimester hyperuricemia predicts development of gestational diabetes. Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, San Diego, CA, February 2009; Magee-Womens Hospital Research Day, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2009 – Awarded Best Fellow Poster Presentation.
Laughon SK, Catov J, Roberts JM. Uric acid concentrations are associated with insulin resistance in normotensive pregnant women. Society for Gynecologic Investigation Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2008.
Laughon SK, Curtin JP, Liu M. A randomized, controlled trial comparing a traditional lecture to a life experience source during a third year obstetrics and gynecology clerkship. Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics/Creog Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2007.
Laughon SK, Bender S, Saltzman DH, Rhea D, Rebarber A. Monitoring peak plasma anti-factor Xa activity across singleton gestations in thrombophilic patients treated with low molecular weight heparins (LMWH). Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
Laughon SK, Rebarber A, Saltzman DH, Fink L, Rolnitzky L. The association between pregnancy-associated plasma protein A, free-beta subunit human chorionic gonadotropin and adverse pregnancy outcomes in twin gestations. Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting, Miami, FL, February 2006.
Laughon SK, Wolfe HM, Visco AG. Prior Cesarean and the Risk for Placenta Previa on Second-Trimester Ultrasonography. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists District IV Meeting Poster Presentation, awarded 2nd place. San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2003.

Publications: