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Research by the CSMB
CSMB's research and scholarship have contributed immeasurably to understanding multifetal pregnancy. Some of the many professional contributions that the CSMB has contributed are:
- Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation & Perinatal Outcome—A landmark, 700-page, illustrated volume published in New York and London in 1996 by the Parthenon Publishing Group; received an unprecedented 17 reviews, universally highly laudatory.
- "The Northwestern University Multihospital Twin Study"—Launched and maintained the longest series of studies looking at a sample from 13 Chicago-area hospitals; 18 research papers published since 1980; study continues today.
- "The Twinsburg Archives"—A compiled, photographic record of more than 6,000 images of identical twins.
- Gynecology and Obstetrics—Wrote the definitive chapters on prenatal care and delivery for this six-volume, international textbook published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA; now in its third revision since the original material was published in the 1985 edition.
- "Multiple Pregnancy: New Insights"—Edited a special issue with 14 articles in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, November 1997.
- "Preterm Birth: Etiology, Mechanisms and Prevention"—Presented paper at an invited conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (October 1997).
- International Seminars—Created and chaired workshops on multiple pregnancy at seminars held in collaboration with the International Society for Twin Studies in Amsterdam (1986); Chicago (1988); Rome (1989); Berlin (1991); Helsingborg, Sweden (1993); Tel Aviv (1994) and Zakopane, Poland (1996).
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