Associate Professor
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Permian Basin
Name: Christopher Atsaboghena Enakpene, MD, MS, FACOG.
Clinical Associate Professor,
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Permian Basin, Texas 79763.
Office phone: 4326201125
Mobile phone: 347 217 5127.
Fax: 4326201127
Official email: christopher.a.enakpene@ttuhsc.edu
Personal email: cenakpene@gmail.com
Clinical expertise in:
a. Medical complications of pregnancy such as diabetes, chronic hypertension, neurological disorders, connective tissues diseases, pulmonary disorders, autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular diseases, psychiatric disease and infection such as pyelonephritis, hepatitis B & C, respiratory tract infection, cholecystitis.
b. Obstetric and surgical complications such as preterm labor, pregnancy induced hypertension/preeclampsia/eclampsia, multiple gestation, placental abnormalities, antepartum and postpartum complications.
c. Genetic and fetal anomalies such as fetal aneuploidy, invasive diagnostic testing with chorionic villi sampling and amniocentesis, fetal structural anomalies.
d. Complex obstetric surgeries like; placenta accreta spectrum surgery and fertility sparing surgery; cesarean hysterectomy and conservative surgery respectively, and fertility sparing surgery for large uterine large uterine fibroids like cesarean myomectomy for large uterine fibroids that adversely impact safe delivery and maternal safety.
Research interest in:
Strategic interventions to prevent preterm delivery, screening, diagnsosis and management of diabetes in pregnancy, fetal growth abnormality, chromosomal and genetic disorders of pregnancy, and multiple gestations.
Bech study on the sequencing of adipose tissues from women with gestational diabetes to predict future metabolic syndrome.
