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Beth Leong Pineles, M.D., Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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Attending Physician, Gynecology, PENN Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Attending Physician, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Medical Center of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
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Attending Physician, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Attending Physician, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
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Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
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Director, Penn Medicine Placenta Accreta Spectrum Center of Excellence
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Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB)
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Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology
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3d University of California, Irvine, CA, 2005.
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64 University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2013.
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64 University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2015.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

8f High-risk pregnancy, preterm labor, chronic disease in pregnancy, placenta accreta spectrum disorders, fetal growth restriction
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Description of Other Expertise

37 Pregnancy-related guideline development
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Description of Research Expertise

8a Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy, placenta accreta spectrum disorders, deimplementation, perinatal epidemiology
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Selected Publications

fb Pineles BL, Goodman KE, Pineles L: In-hospital mortality in a cohort of hospitalized pregnant and nonpregnant patients with COVID-19. Ann Internal Med 174(8):1186-1188, Aug 2021.

127 Pineles BL, Stephens A, M. Narendran L, Tigner A, Leidlein C, Pedroza C, Mendez-Figueroa H, Sibai BM: The relationship between delivery and the PaO 2 /FiO 2 ratio in COVID-19: a cohort study. BJOG 129(3):493-499, Feb 2021.

127 Pineles B, Mani A, Sura L, Rossignol C, Weiss MD, Goetzl L: Neuronal exosome proteins: novel biomarkers for predicting neonatal response to therapeutic hypothermia. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 107(1): 60-64, Jan 2022.

cd Pineles BL, Alamo IC, Farooq N, Green J, Blackwell SC, Sibai BM, Parchem JG: Racial-ethnic disparities and pregnancy outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 infection in a 7c universally-tested cohort in Houston, Texas. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 254:329-330, Nov 2020.

119 Pineles BL, Harris AD, Goodman KE: Adverse Maternal and Delivery Outcomes in Children and Very Young (Age ≤13 Years) US Adolescents Compared With Older Adolescents and Adults. JAMA 328: 1766-1768, Nov 2022.

f6 Firoz T, Pineles B, Navrange N, Grimshaw A, Oladapo O, Chou D: Non-communicable diseases and maternal health: a scoping review. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 22(1):787, Oct 2022.

13e Pineles BL, Coselli J, Ghorayeb T, Fishel Bartal M, Zvavanjanja RC, Blackwell SC, Papanna R, Sibai BM: Leaving the Placenta In Situ in Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders: A Single-Center Case Series. Am J Perinatol 41(S 01):e420-e429, May 2024.

125 Pineles BL, Mendez-Figueroa H, Chauhan SP: Diagnosis of fetal growth restriction in a cohort of small-for-gestational-age neonates at term: neonatal and maternal outcomes. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM 4(5): 100672, Sept 2022.

129 Pineles BL, Stephens A, Narendran LM, Tigner MA, Leidlein C, Pedroza C, Mendez-Figueroa H, Sibai BM: The relationship between delivery and the PaO(2) /FiO(2) ratio in COVID-19: a cohort study. BJOG 129(3): 493-499, Feb 2022.

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