| Mahsa Yazdy
 Dr. Mahsa Yazdy is the current Principal Investigator (PI) and the Director of the Massachusetts Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Dr. Yazdy joined the Center in 2016, bringing with her over 10 years of experience in birth defects research. Her areas of interest in the field of birth defects research are how medications and environmental exposures during pregnancy impact the risk of birth defects. Her recent publications focused on birth defects as a consequence of Zika virus infection in pregnancy, opioid and other medication use during pregnancy, and assisted reproduction. In her role as PI and Director, she oversees the Center’s data analyses phase of the NBDPS, the participation in the BD-STEPS, and sets the research agenda of the Center. Dr. Yazdy works closely with two Co-Principal Investigators: Allen Mitchell, MD, Director Emeritus of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, and Martha Werler, DSc, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, at Boston University School of Public Health.
Selected NBDPS Publications:
Yazdy, M. M., Werler, M. M., Feldkamp, M. L., Shaw, G. M., Mosley, B. S., Vieira, V. M. and NBDPS (2015), Spatial analysis of gastroschisis in the national birth defects prevention study. Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 103: 544-553. doi: 10.1002/bdra.23375 |
