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Video Text Alternative: NICHD Spotlight: Dr. Catherine Spong Describing her Medical Background

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NICHD Spotlight
Describing her medical background

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GRAPHIC SLIDE: Catherine Spong, M.D.

Dr. Spong on camera.		 Dr. Catherine Spong: I'm an obstetrician/gynecologist with subspecialty training in maternal fetal medicine, meaning I take care of women who have high-risk pregnancies, which can include anything from advanced maternal age to multi-fetal gestation to hypertension in pregnancy or diabetes in pregnancy. I am currently the Director of the Division of Extramural Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. And I also see patients one day a week at an outside hospital.
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