Coagulation Defects in Pregnancy and Postpartum near Kettering, OH

Biography: Dr. Hiett served as director of maternal-fetal medicine and genetics at St. Vincent Women's Hospital in Indianapolis for 19 years. He received his M.D. degree and completed his OB/GYN residency at the University of Kentucky. He completed a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia. He is board certified in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Hiett is a registrantof the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound, Obstetrics and Gynecology.His research interests include prenatal and gynecological ultrasound, preeclampsia, and medical complications of pregnancy. Dr. Hiett currently serves on the board of the Fetal Medicine Foundation. Read Dr. Hiett's publications.

Biography: Dr. Sonek earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Chicago and completed both his residency and his Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at the Ohio State University. He serves on the clinical faculty at both Ohio State and Wright State University. Dr. Sonek's special interest and calling is diagnostic ultrasound. He earned his RDMS (Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer) in Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neuro Sonography. A part of his fellowship was spent at the Harris Birthright Centre for Fetal Medicine in London, UK, where he received advanced training in prenatal diagnosis and treatment under the tutelage of Professor Kypros Nicolaides. The relationship he developed there helped him prove a finding involving Down syndrome for which he gained international recognition. He linked absence of severely reduced development of the fetal nasal bones with Down syndrome between 11 to 13 weeks gestation. Dr. Sonek once again gained worldwide recognition for developing a new first trimester marker called the Fronto-Maxillary Facial Angle. This technique measures the angle of the fetus' face in the first trimester and provides a risk assessment as to whether the fetus may have Down syndrome. Dr. Sonek is a member of a number of national and international societies in OB/GYN, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and ultrasonography. He is also President and Chairman of the Board for the Fetal Medicine Foundation USA. A non-profit charitable organization which began in July 2006 it is the global leader in First Trimester training and accreditation. The foundation works very closely with the original Fetal Medicine Foundation in London founded by Kypros Nicolaides. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the UK and an Honorary Member of the OB/GYN Society in the Czech Republic. A national prize for outstanding work in diagnostic ultrasound and genetics is awarded in Dr. Sonek's name on an annual basis in the Czech Republic. Along with maintaining a very busy private practice in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, he is also involved in resident education and national and international courses in ultrasonography. Dr. Sonek is married, has two daughters, and resides in Beavercreek, OH.

Biography: David McKenna, MD is a 1992 graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH. He completed his residency in in 1996 in Obstetrics and Gynecology, with the U.S. Air Force at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University in Dayton, OH. He received his fellowship training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine from 1996-8, at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. While on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1998-2004, he was on the faculty at Wright State University attaining the rank of Associate Professor. He also worked part-time with Perinatal Partners while in the Air Force. Upon completing his Air Force duty, he was on faculty with the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, North Carolina for one year before returning to Dayton to join Perinatal Partners in 2005. Areas of special interest include the diagnosis and management of preterm labor, preeclampsia, obstetrical and gynecological sonography, neurosonography, prenatal diagnosis, clinical obstetrics and resident education. In 2010 Dr. McKenna began the new Advanced Fetal Therapy program at Miami Valley Hospital (MVH). He is excited to be able to offer advanced in-utero fetal procedures for our regions patients. Since 2010 he has been the Principal investigator at MVH for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine network, which focuses research on improving the outcomes for pregnant women and premature babies. Dr. McKenna is currently a clinical faculty member at Wright State University and serves as Medical Director of The Perinatal Intensive Care Unit at MVH. He also serves on various local and state projects dedicated to improving the outcomes for pregnant women and premature infants, and decreasing disparity in healthcare and infant mortality. Dr. McKenna and his wife have three children and reside in Beavercreek, OH. Interests include cycling, snowboarding and skiing, the Boston Red Sox, and the University of Notre Dame football. Dr. McKenna is currently accepting high-risk patients. Please call 937-208-8088 for further information. Read Dr. McKenna's publications.