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    NMCSD Intern Presents Study on Severe Maternal Morbidity

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    Photo By Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob L. Greenberg | 200731-N-DA693-1002 SAN DIEGO (July 31, 2020) Lt. Shara Fuller, a first-year intern...... read more read more

    SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES

    07.31.2020

    Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob L. Greenberg 

    Naval Medical Center San Diego

    SAN DIEGO –Lt. Shara Fuller, a first-year intern assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), presented a series of civilian, research studies about severe maternal morbidity in African-American women to her colleagues July 31.
    The evidence-based medicine lecture, “Are African-American Women More Likely to Suffer from Severe Maternal Morbidity or Mortality than White Women,” shed light on disparities in healthcare outcomes between African-American women and white women.
    The scientific review found that African-American women are 3.4 times more likely to suffer severe maternal morbidity or mortality than white women.
    “This is the first lecture of our general medical education series,” said Capt. Kelly Elmore, NMCSD’s Director of Healthcare Business and a board-certified OB-GYN. “It sets the direction and focus on decreasing disparities in women’s health and improving the partnership in the health of our diverse, military population. New interns [at NMCSD] come in July and typically spend six months in their medical specialty and six months rotating through various departments to become well-rounded providers. Their presence brings energy and new ideas which ignite our residency training programs.”
    Elmore said that by bringing forth research and addressing it, military providers can work to eradicate systemic racism within the healthcare field.
    Military training facilities, unlike many civilian healthcare organizations, are not required to record the race or ethnicity of dependents or beneficiaries. Most of the data Fuller presented was gathered from state-level agencies across the nation.
    “We hope to create research projects in the military to see how our data [on the subject of severe maternal morbidity] relates to the civilian sector,” said Elmore.
    Fuller posited that training providers on the topic of implicit bias, as well as better educating mothers who have been identified as ‘at risk,’ would help alleviate the inherent issue at hand.
    More data, casework and studies can be found via PubMed (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov).
    NMCSD’s mission is to prepare service members to deploy in support of operational forces, deliver high quality healthcare services and shape the future of military medicine through education, training and research. NMCSD employs more than 6,000 active duty military personnel, civilians and contractors in Southern California to provide patients with world-class care anytime, anywhere.
    Visit navy.mil/local/sd/ or facebook.com/NMCSD for more information.

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    Date Taken: 07.31.2020
    Date Posted: 08.06.2020 11:18
    Story ID: 375057
    Location: SAN DIEGO, CA, US

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