
Jennifer Banayan, MD is an associate professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine where she practices obstetric anesthesia. She completed her anesthesia residency and cardiothoracic fellowship at University of Chicago. Her scholarly activity and educational contributions have been related to the intersection of her two clinical interests in cardiac and obstetric anesthesiology. Her academic career centers on maternal safety with a specific focus on maternal mortality, cardiac disease in the parturient, maternal resuscitation, and increasing provider utilization of focused cardiac ultrasound in the obstetric patient. She is editor of the APSF Newsletter.