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Brenna L. Hughes, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, United States

Dr. Hughes is Professor with tenure, Chief of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Vice Chair for Quality and Obstetrics at Duke School of Medicine. She specializes in Maternal Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Infectious Diseases. In addition to training in Obstetric and Gynecology, Hughes completed dual fellowships at Magee-Womens Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh, in Maternal Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Infectious Diseases. She also earned a Master of Science degree in Clinical Research at that time. She was a scholar for the Brown NICHD K12 Career Development award in Women’s Reproductive Health Research. She then obtained funding from the NICHD in the form of an individual K23 award focused on examining the impact of pregnancy on the risk of HIV acquisition and was awarded a Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Excellence in Research award for this work.She is currently the Duke Center Principal Investigator for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Clinical Trials Network, participating in all clinical trials run by the Network. She was the PI for two major randomized clinical trials aimed at prevention of congenital cytomegalovirus infection with funding from NICHD and CDC, respectively and has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. She has served on multiple committees for the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM), Publications Committee the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and is currently a member of the SMFM Board of Directors. She has served on numerous study sections for NIH and CDC. She is Co-chair for the ACOG COVID task force, Chair of the SMFM Emerging Infectious Diseases task force, and is the only obstetrician serving on the NIH COVID treatment guidelines panel. She has been named a regional Castle Connolly Best Doctors in America.

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