Dr. Padmashree “Champa” Chaudhury Woodham is a Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, MFM Fellowship Program Director at the Medical College of Georgia, and Director of the Regional Perinatal Center at Wellstar MCG Health. She earned her MD from Emory University, where she also completed her OB-GYN residency. She completed her MFM fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill. Board certified in both OB-GYN and MFM, Dr. Woodham spent a decade at Mercer School of Medicine as Director of MFM, taking on multiple leadership roles and earning honors like the ACOG/CREOG National Faculty Award. She was also the 2022-2023 President of the Georgia OBGYN Society. Dr. Woodham provides specialized high-risk obstetric care, including EXIT procedures and fetal shunt placements. Her research focuses on predictive markers for preeclampsia and improved methods for identifying growth restriction on fetal ultrasound.
New advancements can only be fully realized when clinicians, lawmakers, and patients come together. Biomarker tests not only have the potential to improve patient outcomes and address health equity, they can also decrease expenses for financially vulnerable medical systems.