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Nasim
Nasim Sobhani, MD, MAS

Assistant Professor 

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Contact Information

Department Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
Address 490 Illinois St, Box 0132
San Francisco CA 94158

Research/Clinical Interests

  • Diabetes in pregnancy
  • Maternal cardiac disease
  • Hypertensive disease of pregnancy
  • Placentally-mediated complications of pregnancy
  • Monochorionic twin pregnancies
  • Diabetes in pregnancy
  • Maternal cardiac disease
  • Hypertensive disease of pregnancy
  • Placentally-mediated complications of pregnancy
  • Monochorionic twin pregnancies

Eduction/Training

Princeton University BA Psychology, Neuroscience 2009
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School MD Medicine 2013
University of Washington Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology 2017
University of California, San Francisco Fellowship Maternal-Fetal Medicine 2020

Selected Publications 

  • Sobhani NC, Killion M, Patzek S. Use of open-source automated insulin delivery systems in pregnancies with type 1 diabetes. J Diabetes Sci Technol 2023; In Press.
  • Sobhani NC, Corbetta-Rastelli CM, Agarwal A, D'Alton ME, Friedman AM, Wen T. Delivery trends and obstetric outcomes in patients with Fontan circulation. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 5;5(5):100921. PMID: 36882127
  • Compadre AJ, Kohi M, Lokken RP, Blissett S, Harris IS, Lucero J, Rosenstein MG, Sobhani NC. Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Submassive Pulmonary Embolism in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy. JACC Case Rep 2020;2(12):1899-1904. PMID: 34317077
  • Sobhani NC, Schultz H, Kheiwa A, Killion M, Parikh NI, Harris IS, Gonzalez JM, Agarwal A. Contraceptive choices in the immediate postpartum period in women with cardiac disease. Am J Cardiol. 2019;123(8):1364-1369. PMID: 30712772
  • Sobhani NC, Shulman R, Tran EE, Gonzalez JM. Early onset severe hypertensive disease in pregnancy and screening for antiphospholipid syndrome. AJP Rep 2020;10(1):e32-e36. PMID: 32140289
  • Wen T, Schmidt CN, Sobhani NC, Guglielminotti J, Miller EC, Sutton D, Lahtermaher Y, D'Alton ME, Friedman AM. Trends and outcomes for deliveries with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from 2000 to 2018: A repeated cross-sectional study. BJOG 2022;129(7):1050-1060. PMID: 34865302
  • Sobhani NC, Mernoff R, Abraha M, Okorie CN, Marquez-Magana L, Gaw SL, Robinson JF. Integrated analysis of transcriptomic datasets to identify placental biomarkers of spontaneous preterm birth. Placenta 2022;122:66-73. PMID: 35462239
  • Sobhani NC, Cassidy AG, Qi Z, Yu J, Chetty S, Norton ME. Gross morphologic appearance of chorionic villi and the risk of chromosomal abnormalities. Reprod Sci 2021;28(2):570-574. PMID: 32989629
  • Sobhani NC, Sparks TN, Gosnell KA, Rand L, Gonzalez JM, Feldstein VA. Outcomes of monochorionic, diamniotic twin pregnancies with prenatally diagnosed intertwin weight discordance. Am J Perinatol 2021;38(7):649-656. PMID: 33321536
  • Sobhani NC, Avvad-Portari E, Nascimento ACM, Machado HN, Lobato DSS, Pereira JP, Esquivel MS, Vasconcelos ZC, Zin AA, Tsui I, Adachi K, Brickley EB, Fisher SJ, Nielsen-Saines K, Brasil P, Moreira ME, Gaw SL. Discordant Zika virus findings in twin pregnancies complicated by antenatal zika virus exposure: a prospective cohort. J Infect Dis 2020;221(11):1838-1845. PMID: 31773163

Selected Presentations

  • Sobhani NC, Goemans SL, Nguyen A, Richley M, Gabby L, Han CS, Ramos GA. Perinatal outcomes and time-in-range on continuous glucose monitoring for type 1 diabetes. Oral presentation at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine's 43rd Annual Pregnancy Meeting (2023).
  • Sobhani NC, Kannan A, Tantoco N, Patzek S. Do pregnancy outcomes differ by mode of insulin delivery for type 1 diabetes mellitus? Oral presentation at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine's 42nd Annual Pregnancy Meeting (2022).
  • Sobhani NC, Liu B, Corbetta-Rastelli C, Angarwal A, D'Alton M, Friedman AM, Wen T. Trends in Fontan pregnancies, mode of delivery, and risk for obstetrical complications. Oral presentation at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine's 42nd Annual Pregnancy Meeting (2022).