MFM Fellow
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
Jennifer Cate completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2021 and is now a second year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at Duke University Hospital. She is interested in patient safety and quality improvement and the important incorporation of equity within the scope of patient safety and quality improvement. Her patient safety and quality improvement experience spans beyond her time in fellowship and includes work on the Surgical Care Improvement Project as an undergraduate intern, as a referral analyst pre-matriculation on the Delivery System Reform Incentive Program, as the ACOG Junior Fellow on the Council for Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care and as the Chair of the Committee to Support Vaginal Birth at Yale New Haven Hospital.
As a fellow, she is currently spearheading multiple quality improvement research projects including equitable substance use screening strategies on labor and delivery, improvement in postpartum diabetes screening, and optimization of COVID vaccination in pregnancy. She is furthering her experience in patient safety and quality improvement as a fellow member of the SMFM Patient Safety and Quality Committee and is the current lead of the substance use screening in pregnancy work group developing quality metrics and evidence based implementation guidelines for substance use screening in pregnancy.
In addition to her interest in patient safety and QI, her other research interests include labor and delivery management including evidence based strategies to reduce unindicated cesarean deliveries, previable PPROM and infectious disease and allergy management in pregnancy.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM