UCONN Health
Dr. Kristen Lee Moriarty M.D. (UConn Health MFM Fellow) - previously studied Chemistry at La Salle University, Philadelphia, and graduated Maxima Cum Laude. She attended medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) and tutored Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, served as an Anatomy Scholar, and was a multidisciplinary Academic Coach. She completed her OBGYN residency at the University of Connecticut, where she served as Administrative Chief Resident. She received the Dr. James Egan Award for Outstanding Obstetric Research Project in 2022. She is now a current second fellow in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Connecticut. She has worked on several research projects, presented at various meetings, and published her projects in high-impact journals, such as Placenta. She was awarded the 2024 Back to Bedside ACGME grant for her project, "Bringing Residents, Fellows, and Nurses Back to the Bedside to Support a Mother’s Road to Recovery: Interdisciplinary Trauma-Informed Care Curriculum for Perinatal Care." Her fellowship thesis project centers on investigating the early onset preeclampsia phenotype through transplacental gene therapy of IGF-1 in a naturally occurring hypertensive mouse line (BPH-5). She was selected for the 2024 Perinatal Research Society NIH-Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition Young Investigator Grant Writing Workshop. Her current research focus centers on perinatal trauma, preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction, and transplacental gene therapy.
