Dr. Katherine Park Himes MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Maternal & Fetal Medicine
300 Halket St Suite 0610 Pittsburgh PA, 15213Rating
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About
Dr. Katherine Himes is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Himes specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Himes can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Himes can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 2002
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Severe obesity, gestational weight gain, and adverse birth outcomes.
- Maternal serum folate species in early pregnancy and lower genital tract inflammatory milieu.
- Generalized disruption of inherited genomic imprints leads to wide-ranging placental defects and dysregulated fetal growth.
- Gestational weight gain in twin pregnancies and maternal and child health: a systematic review.
- Validity of birth certificate-derived maternal weight data.
- Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy body mass index: a population-based study to inform prepregnancy weight loss counseling.
- Loss of inherited genomic imprints in mice leads to severe disruption in placental lipid metabolism.
- An ultrasound-based fetal weight reference for twins.
- Partial Loss of Genomic Imprinting Reveals Important Roles for Kcnq1 and Peg10 Imprinted Domains in Placental Development.
- Maternal Obesity and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Are Associated with Components of Child Cognition.
- Maternal obesity and gestational weight gain are risk factors for infant death.
- Child academic achievement in association with pre-pregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain.
- Predictor characteristics necessary for building a clinically useful risk prediction model: a simulation study.
- Low Gestational Weight Gain and Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Obese and Severely Obese Women.
- Patterns of Gestational Weight Gain in Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes
- Pregnancy
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
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