"From Risk to Discovery: Rethinking Congenital Syphilis Prevention, Diagnosis, and Clinical Impact" 

Speaker:

Emily Adhikari, M.D.
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

About Emily Adhikari:

Dr. Adhikari holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and Spanish from Rice University in Houston. She completed two years of medical school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock before embarking on a year-long Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship at UT Southwestern, where she earned her medical degree. She then received obstetrics and gynecology residency training at Parkland Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident. She then obtained fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine, with a focus on infectious diseases affecting pregnant women, at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Adhikari's research focuses on fighting infectious diseases in pregnancy, reducing the primary cesarean delivery rate, and understanding opioid-use disorder among pregnant women.

She currently serves as Medical Director of Perinatal Infectious Diseases at Parkland Health, where she collaborates with hospital and Dallas County leaders to coordinate infectious disease surveillance and treatment for women with HIV and syphilis, as well as emerging pathogens and viruses. She also leads Parkland's efforts at screening and treatment of pregnant women with opioid-use disorder in pregnancy.