Jennifer R. Niebyl
Jennifer R. Niebyl is a Canadian obstetrics and gynecology researcher and professor. She has made contributions to the understanding of drugs in pregnancy and lactation.
Early life and education
Niebyl was born prematurely in 1942 in Montreal, Canada, due to high risks in her mother's pregnancy, who had already suffered five miscarriages.Niebyl completed her undergraduate degree and earned a Bachelors of Science in the nursing program at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After McGill, she attended the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, earning her M.D. in 1967. She specialized in obstetrics and gynecology and, after struggling to find somewhere to accept her due to her gender, she was accepted and performed her residency from 1968 to 1970 at Cornell University-New York Hospital, in Ithaca, New York, and then from 1970 to 1973 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Career
In 1982, Johns Hopkins promoted Niebyl as the director of the division of maternal-fetal medicine. Niebyl specializes in high risk obstetrics, focusing on medical drug use in pregnancy, tocolytic agents for preterm labor, nutrition in pregnancy, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, and folic acid for prevention of birth defect. According to Niebyl, she studied medicine in order to "make the decisions that can really help people" and "to be in charge of the decision-making process for the health care of women."Niebyl is currently employed at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, where she is a professor and heads the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Niebyl is one of the first few women in the United States to ever become the head of this type of department. Niebyl is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Memberships and affiliations
Niebyl is a member of:- The Society for Gynecologic Investigation
- The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medince
- The American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society
- The Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
- Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
- The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Food and Drug Administration Fertility and Maternal Health Drugs Advisory Committee
- U.S. Pharmacopeia Obstetrics and Gynecology Expert Committee
- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Committee on Obstetrics: Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- The Education Commission
- Health Care Commission
Select bibliography
Niebyl has written many scientific articles, review articles, and chapters.Books
- Drug Use in Pregnancy
- ''Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies''
Contributions
Teratology and Drugs in Pregnancy Conception and Prenatal Development Strategies to Treat Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy- ''Drugs and Environmental Agents in Pregnancy and Lactation: Embryology, Teratology, Epidemiology''
Journals
- The American Journal of Perinatology
- ''Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation''
Other
- ''Perspectives on Hyperemesis Gravidarum''