Study: Pre-pregnancy weight loss may reduce maternal complications and provide long-term benefits to offspring

Ann Arbor — Women with obesity before and during pregnancy are at risk of more complications than leaner women, including hypertension, gestational diabetes and increased need for Caesarian delivery.  Their children also have an increased risk of obesity and other metabolic problems. Some of the risk in children may be due to programming of the…

New professorship honors two Taubman scholars

Taubman Emerging Scholar Kanakadurga Singer, MD, has been designated as the inaugural Valerie Castle Opipari, MD Professor at Michigan Medicine. This new professorship honors Dr. Opipari, a pediatric oncologist-hematologist and the first woman chair of Michigan Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, a post she held from 2003-2018.  As a physician-researcher, Dr. Opipari also is a founding…