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Mounira A. Habli, MD

Title

Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist, Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati

Assistant Director of Clinical Research, Good Samaritan Hospital

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Good Samaritan Hospital

Appointment

Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Email

mounira.habli@cchmc.org

Fax

513-636-2735

Credentials

BS: Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon
MS: Masters Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Translational Research, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2010
MD: American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1998
MFM: University of Cincinnati Maternal Fetal Medicine, 2009.

Position History

1998 - 2002: Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency (four years), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

2002 - 2004: Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency (two years), Riverside Regional Medical Center, Affiliated Medical College of Virginia, Newport News, Virginia.

2004 - 2006: Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency (two years), Darmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.

2006 - 2009: Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship (three years), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Awards and Honors

Young Investigator Award at the North American Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy, San Diego, CA, 2007
Best Resident Teaching Award at Dartmouth Medical School, 2006
Most Colorful Resident Award at Riverside Regional Medical Center, 2004
Best Pathology Award at Riverside Regional Medical Center, 2004
Best Resident Teaching Award at Medical College of Virginia, 2004
Best Research Award at Riverside Regional Medical Center, 2003
Best Pathology Award at Riverside Regional Medical Center, 2003
Harir's Honor List at the American University of Beirut, 1994

Research

Modification of the Wigglesworth model of Intrauterine growth restriction in mice as the animal model
Invitro assessment of Insulin like growth factors and adenoviral associated gene expression of insulin like growth factor-I in a rat tophoblast cell line (RCHO-1)

Publications, Most Recent

Bombrys AE, Barton JR, Nowacki E, Habli M, Pinder L, How H, Sibai B. Expectant management of severe preeclampsia at <27 weeks gestation: Maternal and perinatal outcomes according to gestational age by weeks at onset of expectant management. Am J Obstet Gynecol, in press.

Habli M, Bombrys A, Barton J, How HY, Sibai BM. Etiology and Management of Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy-Postpartum: Role of Echocardiography. Am J Obstet Gynecol, in press.

Habli M, Crombleholme T, Livingston J, Herman J, Lim FY, Michelfelder E. Acute effects of fetoscopic laser photocoagulation on recipient cardiac function in twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Am J Obstet Gynecol, in press.

Habli M, Lewis D. Premature Rupture of Membranes. Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology, in press.

Habli M, O'Brien T, Nowack E, Khoury S, Barton J, Sibai BM. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Prognostic Factors for Long Term Maternal Outcome. Am J Obstet Gynecol, in press.

Habli M, Livingston J, Harmon J, Lim FY, Polzin W, Crombleholme T. The Outcome of Twin-Twin Transfusion syndrome Complicated with Placental Insufficiency. Am J Obstet Gynecol, in press.

Lubow JM, How HY, Habli M, Maxwell R, Sibai BM. Indications for delivery and short-term neonatal outcomes in late preterm as compared with term births. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Jan 9.

Bombrys AE, Neiger R, Hawkins S, Sonek J, Croom C, McKenna D, Ventolini G, Habli M, How H, Sibai B. Pregnancy outcome in isolated single umbilical artery. Am J Perinatol. 2008 Apr;25(4):239-42.

Habli M, Richard L, Qian C, Sibai B. Neonatal Outcomes in Pregnancies with Preeclampsia or Gestational Hypertension and in Normotensive Pregnancies Delivered at 35, 36, or 37 Weeks. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Oct;197(4):406.e1-7.

Paulson JD, Habli M, Alizade A, Borromeo R. The Treatment of Mild Endometriosis with Laser Laparoscopy: A Two-step Treatment Analysis of Patients Whose Primary Therapy was Successful. JSLS. 2006;10(1):30-6.

Presentations, Most Recent

Mounira Habli, Jijnesh Parvadia, Fernando Vuletin, Foong Yen Lim, Timothy Crombleholme. Site Specific Intra-Placental Gene Transfer Corrects Fetal Growth Restriction in a Novel Mouse Model of Placental Insufficiency (PI). American Society of Gene Therapy, Boston, 2008.

Mounira Habli, Thomas O’Brien, Elizabeth Nowack, Santosh Likki, Saeb Khoury, John R. Barton, Baha Sibai. Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM): Prognostic factors for long term maternal outcome. International Society of Hypertension in pregnancy, Washington, DC, 2008.

Mounira Habli MD, Levine Richard MD, PhD, Cong Qian MD, Baha Sibai MD. Neonatal Outcomes in Pregnancies with Preeclampsia or Gestational Hypertension and in Normotensive Pregnancies Delivered at 35, 36, or 37 Weeks. North American Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy, San Diego, 2007.

Mounira Habli MD, Levine Richard MD, PhD, Cong Qian MD, Baha Sibai MD. Neonatal Outcomes in Pregnancies with Preeclampsia or Gestational Hypertension and in Normotensive Pregnancies Delivered at 38, 39, or >40 Weeks. North American Society of Hypertension in pregnancy, San Diego, 2007.