The Quiet Epidemic: Causes and Classification of Preterm Birth

Thomas F. McElrath, Associate Professor of Obstetrics at Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician, Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital

This webinar is designed to:

• Discuss the definitions and rates of prematurity.
• Review current causes of prematurity in a very clinical fashion with an emphasis on the underlying biology.
• Consider out work on reclassifying the causes of prematurity into two main ‘super’ categories.

This webinar was held April 27, 2012 at 11am EST.

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