Dr. Barbara Marie O'brien MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Maternal & Fetal Medicine
101 Dudley St Providence RI, 02905About
Dr. Barbara O'brien is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. O'brien specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. O'brien can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr O'brien can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma MD
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MFM/geneticist view on prenatal management of twins.
- Uses of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynecology.
- Linking topography to tonotopy in the mouse auditory thalamocortical circuit.
- Laser ablation of placental vessels in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome: a paradigm for endoscopic fetal surgery.
- Long-term morbidity after fetal endoscopic surgery for severe twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
- Evaluation of patient education materials: the example of circulating cell free DNA testing for aneuploidy.
- The clinical utility of DNA-based screening for fetal aneuploidy by primary obstetrical care providers in the general pregnancy population.
- Nuchal translucency measurement in the era of prenatal screening for aneuploidy using cell free (cf)DNA.
- Separate transcriptionally regulated pathways specify distinct classes of sister dendrites in a nociceptive neuron.
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