Other offices held: Associate professor, University of Minnesota

Education and training: Medical School, Christian Medical College Vellore, India; Residency in Ob/Gyn, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India; Reproductive endocrinology fellowship, University of Minnesota

Overview/research interests: Clinical outcomes research, simulation and education, labor and delivery, fetal head impaction, shoulder dystocia and postpartum hemorrhage.

Current research activities and funding

• Have been funded by the Red Fund in 2014, 2015 and 2017
• Impacted Fetal Head at Second-Stage Cesarean Section: Simulation and Outcomes (RED fund project, ongoing)
• Shoulder Dystocia Simulation: Does It Improve Outcomes?
• Risk Scoring For Shoulder Dystocia
• Prophylactic Wound Vac Therapy to Decrease Wound Infections After Cesarean Sections In Obese Women
• Pubic Symphysis Diastasis: Vaginal Delivery vs Cesarean Section
• Postpartum Hemorrhage and Secondary Interventions
• Optimizing the Use of the Bakri Balloon for Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Timing of Blood Transfusion in Postpartum Hemorrhage. Does It Change Outcomes?