Rosemary Reiss

Rosemary Reiss, MD directs the Center for Fetal Medicine and Prenatal Genetics, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and is Assistant Professor at HMS. After residency at Yale, she completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Ohio State University, staying on their faculty until moving to Boston in 2000. Her training in the US was punctuated by extended visits to British NHS hospitals, opportunities to observe a different model of health care provision. Seventeen years of work in prenatal diagnosis, including service on medical ethics committees, has provided constant exposure to ethical dilemmas faced both by anxious couples making decisions about fetal problems, and by the professionals who provide them with information and support. She was stimulated to more formal study of biomedical ethics by the recent development of new molecular genetic techniques that markedly expand the scope of prenatal diagnoses and preconception testing, and will require new paradigms for policy-making and genetic counseling in light of their potential to disclose mild, variable or adult-onset disorders.

Leadership Title

• Co-Director, Obstetric Ultrasound
• Director, Center for Fetal Medicine and Prenatal Genetics

Specialties

• Obstetrics/Gynecology

Clinical Interests

• Autoimmune Disease In Pregnancy
• Chorionic Villus Sampling
• Fetal Abnormalities
• High-Risk Pregnancy
• Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Obstetrical Ultrasound
• Prenatal Diagnosis

Education

Medical School

• New York University School of Medicine

Residency

• Yale University School of Medicine, 1981 - 1984

Board Certifications

• Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1987
• Maternal and Fetal Medicine, 1988

Fellowship

• Ohio State University Medical Center, 1984 - 1986

Publications

• Should embryos with autosomal monosomy by preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy be transferred?: Implications for embryo selection from a systematic literature review of autosomal monosomy survivors.
  Authors: Authors: Bunnell ME, Wilkins-Haug L, Reiss R.
  Prenat Diagn 2017-12-01

• Sex chromosome aneuploidy detection by noninvasive prenatal testing: helpful or hazardous?
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, Discenza M, Foster J, Dobson L, Wilkins-Haug L.
  Prenat Diagn 2017-05-01

• Recurrent enlarged nuchal translucency: first trimester presentation of a familial 15q26?qter deletion.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss R, Ahern D, Sandstrom M, Wilkins-Haug L.
  Am J Med Genet A 2015-03-01

• Outcomes of pregnancies with a low-lying placenta diagnosed on second-trimester sonography.
  Authors: Authors: Heller HT, Mullen KM, Gordon RW, Reiss RE, Benson CB.
  J Ultrasound Med 2014-04-01

• Absent fetal nasal bone: what does it mean for the euploid fetus?
  Authors: Authors: Dukhovny S, Wilkins-Haug L, Shipp TD, Benson CB, Kaimal AJ, Reiss R.
  J Ultrasound Med 2013-12-01

• Still a screening test: more attention needed to noninvasive prenatal test false-positive rates.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, Cherry AM.
  Am J Obstet Gynecol 2013-08-01

• Brain abnormalities in patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.
  Authors: Authors: Gardiner K, Chitayat D, Choufani S, Shuman C, Blaser S, Terespolsky D, Farrell S, Reiss R, Wodak S, Pu S, Ray PN, Baskin B, Weksberg R.
  Am J Med Genet A 2012-06-01

• Monochorionic diamniotic twin gestations discordant for markedly enlarged nuchal translucency.
  Authors: Authors: Edlow AG, Reiss R, Benson CB, Gerrol P, Wilkins-Haug L.
  Prenat Diagn 2011-03-01

• Apert syndrome: what prenatal radiographic findings should prompt its consideration?
  Authors: Authors: Quintero-Rivera F, Robson CD, Reiss RE, Levine D, Benson C, Mulliken JB, Kimonis VE.
  Prenat Diagn 2006-10-01

• Intracranial anomalies detected by imaging studies in 30 patients with Apert syndrome.
  Authors: Authors: Quintero-Rivera F, Robson CD, Reiss RE, Levine D, Benson CB, Mulliken JB, Kimonis VE.
  Am J Med Genet A 2006-06-15

• Functional urinary tract obstruction developing in fetuses with isolated gastroschisis.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, Landon MB, Jayanthi VR, Caniano DA, Mutabagani K, O'Shaughnessy RW.
  Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2000-03-01

• Evaluation of the TEOM method for measurement of ambient particulate mass in urban areas.
  Authors: Authors: Allen G, Sioutas C, Koutrakis P, Reiss R, Lurmann FW, Roberts PT.
  J Air Waste Manag Assoc 1997-06-01

• Ease and accuracy of evaluation of fetal hands during obstetrical ultrasonography: a prospective study.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, Foy PM, Mendiratta V, Kelly M, Gabbe SG.
  J Ultrasound Med 1995-11-01

• Measurement of organic acids, aldehydes, and ketones in residential environments and their relation to ozone.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss R, Ryan PB, Tibbetts SJ, Koutrakis P.
  J Air Waste Manag Assoc 1995-10-01

• Lupus anticoagulant syndrome.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE.
  J Ultrasound Med 1990-12-01

• Successful pregnancy despite placental cystine crystals in a woman with nephropathic cystinosis.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, Kuwabara T, Smith ML, Gahl WA.
  N Engl J Med 1988-07-28

• Retrospective comparison of blood pressure course during preeclamptic and matched control pregnancies.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, O'Shaughnessy RW, Quilligan TJ, Zuspan FP.
  Am J Obstet Gynecol 1987-04-01

• Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome in pregnancy: two case studies.
  Authors: Authors: Reiss RE, Copel JA, Roberts NS, Hobbins JC.
  Am J Obstet Gynecol 1985-11-01