Sonia Hassan, M.D.
Associate Dean of Maternal, Perinatal and Child Health
1241 Scott Hall
Phone: 313-577-2694
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Assistant's Name: Sarah Coalson
Sonia Hassan, M.D., is director of the Center for Advanced Obstetrical Care and Research at the Perinatology Research Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, housed at Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Detroit Medical Center.In addition, she is director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship for the Perinatology Research Branch, Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, and associate director of the Combined Maternal-Fetal Medicine-Medical Genetics Fellowship.
A professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Dr. Hassan is the principal investigator for the North American Fetal Therapy Network at Wayne State University.
Dr. Hassan, a native of Michigan, received her medical degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She performed her internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and completed a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Wayne State University and Hutzel Hospital.
Dr. Hassan is the lead author of a groundbreaking clinical study published earlier this year that detailed a new method for preventing premature birth in millions of women. The study showed that the rate of early preterm delivery (delivery at less than 33 weeks of gestation) can be reduced by 45 percent simply by treating the women at risk with a low-cost gel of natural progesterone from mid-trimester until term.
Her past awards include the Children’s Research Center of Michigan Research Award for Fetal Growth Impairment and Maternal Microchimersim, the Young Investigator's Award and the Certificate of Merit Award from the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the J. Bay Jacobs American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation Travel Award from the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, the 2008 Academic Achievement Award, and the 2009 and 2010 Research Excellence Awards from the Wayne State University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She was Chair of the Prematurity Interest Group of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2009 and 2010.
The author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications relating to maternal-fetal medicine, Dr. Hassan’s interests include the uterine cervix and cervical biology in premature labor, the use of progesterone in the prevention of preterm birth, the uterine cervix transcriptome, intra-uterine infection and its association with a sonographic short cervix, cervical insufficiency and labor at term, and longitudinal studies of biomarkers to predict adverse pregnancy outcome.
A professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Dr. Hassan is the principal investigator for the North American Fetal Therapy Network at Wayne State University.
Dr. Hassan, a native of Michigan, received her medical degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She performed her internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and completed a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Wayne State University and Hutzel Hospital.
Dr. Hassan is the lead author of a groundbreaking clinical study published earlier this year that detailed a new method for preventing premature birth in millions of women. The study showed that the rate of early preterm delivery (delivery at less than 33 weeks of gestation) can be reduced by 45 percent simply by treating the women at risk with a low-cost gel of natural progesterone from mid-trimester until term.
Her past awards include the Children’s Research Center of Michigan Research Award for Fetal Growth Impairment and Maternal Microchimersim, the Young Investigator's Award and the Certificate of Merit Award from the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the J. Bay Jacobs American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation Travel Award from the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, the 2008 Academic Achievement Award, and the 2009 and 2010 Research Excellence Awards from the Wayne State University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She was Chair of the Prematurity Interest Group of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2009 and 2010.
The author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications relating to maternal-fetal medicine, Dr. Hassan’s interests include the uterine cervix and cervical biology in premature labor, the use of progesterone in the prevention of preterm birth, the uterine cervix transcriptome, intra-uterine infection and its association with a sonographic short cervix, cervical insufficiency and labor at term, and longitudinal studies of biomarkers to predict adverse pregnancy outcome.