Rachel D. Seaman, MD

Dr. Seaman is a board-certified Obstetrician specializing in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She is committed to providing evidence-based, collaborative care for patients with complex medical conditions in pregnancy, treating each patient with the same attention, advocacy and compassion she would want for a member of her own family.

Clinical Interests

Complex delivery planning and obstetric surgery, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, cardio-obstetrics

Education

Organizations

Board Certification

Honors and awards

2022

Resident Award for Excellence in Obstetrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

2019

Αlpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Eastern Virginia Medical School

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Research interests

Obstetric quality and safety, diagnostic accuracy in obstetric care, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, adult congenital heart disease in pregnancy

Seaman RD, Salmanian B, Shamshirsaz AA, Espinoza J, Sanz-Cortes M, Donepudi R, Johnson R, Krispin E, Sun R, Belfort MA, Nassr AA. Pregnancy outcomes following early fetoscopic laser photocoagulation for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome at 16 weeks' gestation. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM. 2023;5(1):100771

Seaman RD, Kopkin RH, Turrentine MA. Erythromycin vs azithromycin for treatment of preterm prelabor rupture of membranes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2022;226(6):794-801.e1

Salmanian B, Shainker SA, Hecht JL, Modest AM, Castro EC, Seaman RD, Meshinchiasl N, Hessami K, Brown A, Tounsi S, Shamshirsaz AA, Fox KA, Clark SL, Belfort MA, Shamshirsaz AA. The Society for Pediatric Pathology Task Force grading system for placenta accreta spectrum and its correlation with clinical outcomes. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2022;226(5):720.e1-720.e6

Ayyar A, Seaman RD, Guntupalli K, Tolcher MC. Management of a novel autoimmune disease, COPA syndrome, in pregnancy. Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2022;2022:4865985

Porche LM, Sinkovskaya E, Seaman RD, Galadima H, Romary L, Philips J, Abuhamad A. Fetal myocardial performance index in the third trimester of pregnancy: feasibility and reproducibility of conventional spectral Doppler versus spectral tissue Doppler technique. American Journal of Perinatology. 2021;38(3):296-303

Espinoza J, Furtun BY, Kailin JA, Altman CA, Seaman RD, Belfort MA, Shamshirsaz AA, Nassr AA, Sanz Cortes M, Donepudi RV, Espinoza AF, Corroenne R, Lee W. Umbilical artery Doppler patterns and right ventricular outflow abnormalities in twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2021;40(1):71-78

Seaman RD, Cassady CI, Yepez Donado MC, Espinoza J, Shamshirsaz AA, Nassr AA, Whitehead WE, Belfort MA, Sanz Cortes M. Postoperative imaging following fetal open myelomeningocele repair: the clinical utility of magnetic resonance imaging and sonographic amniotic fluid volumes in detecting suspected hysterotomy scar dehiscence. Prenatal Diagnosis. 2020;40(1):66-70

Berman D, Braig Z, Simms B, Anderson T, Dougherty K, Marcinkowski K, Seaman R. Efficacy of medical student surgery journal club. Journal of Surgical Education. 2019;76(1):83-88