Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19

Dr. Joshua Copel is lauded for
congenital heart block research

Yale School of Medicine researcher Dr. Joshua A. Copel recently received the Dru Carlson Award for Research in Ultrasound and Genetics from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) at their 27th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Copel, who is a professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Pediatrics, will also assume the presidency of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) at its annual meeting in New York in March. He is in the middle of a six-year term on the AIUM executive committee: as president-elect 2005-2007, as president 2007-2009 and as immediate past president 2009-2011. He has also served as treasurer of the AIUM.

Copel, who is vice chair and director of Obstetric-Gynecologic Ultrasound at Yale, is an expert in high-risk pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis, fetal surgery, amniocentesis, and first-trimester screening and chorionic villus sampling. Copel's research aims to increase the number of abnormal babies identified through less-invasive and less-costly detection methods.

He won the Dru Carlson Award at last week's SMFM meeting for his research abstract "Prospective Cardiac Monitoring in Fetuses at Risk of Congenital Heart Block: The PR interval and Dexamethasone Evaluation (PRIDE) Study." The SMFM program committee presents the award for the abstract with the best ultrasound or genetics research at the annual meeting. It was established in memory of Dr. Dru Carlson, a member of SMFM who was known for her expertise in ultrasound and genetics research. The Los Angeles physician passed away in 2003 from breast cancer.

The AIUM is a multidisciplinary association dedicated to advancing the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine through professional and public education, research, development of guidelines and accreditation. The group has promoted the safe and effective use of ultrasound in clinical medicine for 50 years.

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