Cardio-Obstetrics Program
Cardio-Obstetrics Program
At the University of Michigan Health, our Cardio-Obstetrics team works with women to create personal plans for care during pregnancy, labor and birth, as well as during the postpartum period.
Our Approach
Our team includes maternal-fetal medicine specialists, cardiologists, congenital heart disease specialists, anesthesiologists, obstetric pharmacists and nursing specialists.
We bring together experts from across disciplines to provide the best care for you during your pregnancy. For some women, that will mean consultation with our experts to allow for care closer to home and for others that will involve in-person care by our multidisciplinary care team to help you have the best possible outcome for you.
For high-risk patients, we can provide women with state-of-the-art care at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, and newborns with heart problems can be treated in the Congenital Heart Center in C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. This care is all coordinated through Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital whose obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, obstetric and cardiac anesthesiologists, nurses and pharmacists all work together to care for you and your family.
Who We Treat
We care for women who enter pregnancy with many types of heart disease:
- Women with disease of the heart valves such as bicuspid aortic valve, aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, or with mechanical heart valves
- Women who were born with a heart anomaly such as Tetralogy of Fallot, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, or congenital heart block
- Women with a history of heart failure, cardiomyopathy, or prior peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
- Women with abnormal heart rhythms, arrhythmias
- Women with a history of heart attacks
- Women with pulmonary hypertension
We also care for women who develop heart disease during pregnancy including:
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
- Preeclampsia with severe features
Appointment Information
To make an appointment with our Cardio-Obstetrics team, contact Obstetrics and Gynecology at Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital at 734-763-6295.
Research
We are always working to learn how to provide women and their families with the best care possible. We are currently enrolling women with heart disease in our Biorepository for Understanding Maternal and Pediatric health (BUMP) cohort. We are also working with colleagues across the institution to better understand how hypertensive disorders of pregnancy develop and affect women during delivery and over their lifetimes.
Locations
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Cardiology Clinic | Frankel Cardiovascular Center 1425 E Ann St
Floor 3 Reception C
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5856Get Directions -
Women's Clinic Maternal Fetal Medicine | Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital 1540 E Hospital Dr
Floor 9
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-4276Get Directions
Doctors
Ashley Megan Bartell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Timothy Brett Cotts, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine
Melinda Baughman Davis, MD
Clinical Professor
Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine
Michael Robert Joynt, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine
Elizabeth Suzanne Langen, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Mark Douglas Norris, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Angela Marie Quain, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pediatric Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics
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