Vincenzo Berghella

Vincenzo Berghella, M.D.
Vincenzo Berghella is originally from Pescara, Italy, from where he moved after High School to attend Manhattanville College, New York, USA. He did medical school at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU), in Philadelphia; Ob-Gyn Residency at New York Downtown Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) Fellowship at TJU, in Philadelphia, where he remained and is Director of the MFM Division and Fellowship Program.

Vincenzo Berghella (VB) is has authored over 600 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, is the editor or co-editor of medical textbooks such as ‘Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines’ (in 4th edition), ‘Maternal Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines’ (in 4th edition), ‘Evidence Based Labor and Delivery’, ‘Obstetrics: normal and abnormal pregnancies’, and ‘Operative Obstetrics.’ He is also author of over 45 other medical and non-medical (e.g. Happiness: the scientific path to achieving well-being) books (see www.amazon.com). VB has been a member and leader (chairman) of several Committees of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is an Oral Examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and is Past-President of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). He is Editor in chief of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Maternal-Fetal Medicine (AJOG MFM) (Founding Editor), Associate Editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG), Deputy Editor at UpToDate, and Associate Editor for the Cochrane Review. He works as a clinician (about 50% of the time) at TJU, educator, and clinical researcher. His research interests are in high-risk pregnancy, in particular but not limited to prediction and prevention of preterm birth, and management of labor and delivery.