Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, United States
Dr. Ashley Battarbee currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at The University of Alabama in Birmingham. Her medical training began after she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Biology from Southwestern University in 2000. She completed medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2004 where she was named AOA and Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Northwestern University in 2008. She subsequently completed Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019, during which time she also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research.
Dr. Battarbee's primary clinical and research focus is the management of diabetes in pregnancy with the overarching goal of improving both short-term pregnancy outcomes and long-term maternal and child health. To that end she is currently the PI of a multi-center randomized clinical trial evaluating the optimal method of glycemic management after antenatal corticosteroids in pregnancy and serves as site-PI for multiple other clinical trials of diabetes in pregnancy. Since joining UAB, she has established the Diabetes in Pregnancy Program for which she serves as the Director and also serves as a member of the UAB IRB and SMFM Publications Committee. Over the next few years she looks forward to conducting a randomized clinical trial of continuous glucose monitoring for management of type 2 diabetes in pregnancy.
(27) Relationship between metformin use and preterm preeclampsia in pregnancies with type 2 diabetes
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM