Waters Installed as Inaugural Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine - ubmd.com

Thaddeus P. Waters, MD, is installed arsenic the inaugural Amol S. Lele, MD, Professor and Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine by UB President Satish K. Tripathi, left, and Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, right, dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Published November 22, 2022

UB President Satish K. Tripathi and Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, UB’s vice president for wellness sciences and dean of the Jacobs School, presided implicit the Nov. 16 ceremony.

“To supply the highest prime aesculapian education, the Jacobs School indispensable recruit, clasp and beforehand the champion module and learners. New recruits similar Dr. Waters are integral to the maturation and the aboriginal of however we attraction for our community,” Brashear said. “We person sought — and hired — the brightest and the best. Dr. Waters is different exceptional summation to our school.”

“His probe and objective interests successful gestational diabetes and premature births — among different areas — align with our university’s committedness to the greater good,” Brashear added. “In short, helium exemplifies the benignant of module subordinate we question to assistance america execute our imaginativeness of excellence for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and for UB.”

“Here astatine UB, we are intentionally focused connected attracting the precise champion faculty. Dr. Waters intelligibly embodies this module excellence,” Tripathi said. “As we proceed to pull exemplary module members to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, we are achieving caller levels of excellence successful aesculapian education, objective grooming and research.”

“I presumption myself arsenic a custodian and a caretaker of this presumption and I anticipation each time that I bash justness and grant to her representation and legacy,” Waters said.

Waters, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, completed his aesculapian grade and residency astatine Drexel University College of Medicine successful Philadelphia and his fellowship successful maternal-fetal medicine astatine MetroHealth Medical Center successful Cleveland. He holds a bachelor’s grade successful English lit from Washington and Lee University. 

He besides serves arsenic the aesculapian manager for maternal-fetal medicine and the determination perinatal programme astatine Oishei Children’s Hospital. 

Waters antecedently served arsenic manager of maternal-fetal medicine, manager of labour and delivery and co-director of the Perinatal Center astatine Rush University successful Chicago.

He is simply a subordinate of the International Society of Ultrasound successful Obstetrics and Gynecology, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, American Institute of Ultrasound successful Medicine and American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 

The precocious Amol S. Lele, MD, was held successful the highest respect by her patients, trainees and the galore aesculapian professionals with whom she collaborated. Throughout her career, she was recognized for her beardown commitment to medicine. 

Multiple times, residents she trained voted her arsenic “educator of the year.” In 2013, the Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network honored her astatine its Great Baby Beginnings lawsuit for her dedication to children and for the acquisition and mentoring she provided. Lele was besides honored arsenic Physician of the Year by the Association of Asian American Physicians.

“Amol S. Lele was a superb and beloved subordinate of our UB faculty,” Brashear said. “She was a prof who was some thoughtful and thorough with the countless students she educated, and she was a doc who was arsenic profoundly passionate with her patients arsenic she was respected successful her field.”

“I cognize I talk for her colleagues, friends and erstwhile students erstwhile I accidental however overmuch Amol is missed by each who were fortunate to cognize her,” Brashear added. “We are humbled to person this accidental to transportation connected Amol’s meaningful bequest of work successful her name.”

Lele’s husband, Shashikant B. Lele, MD, objective prof emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology; and their children, girl Rajal Lele Young, an attorney; and lad Kedar S. Lele, DDS ’98, a pediatric dentist; were connected manus for the ceremony.

Thaddeus P. Waters, MD, gives the lecture aft being installed arsenic the Amol S. Lele, MD, Professor and Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Following his installation, Waters gave the lecture “Will This Time Be Different? The Promise, Challenges and Limitations of Technology successful Obstetrics, From the External Fetal Monitor to Noninvasive Prenatal Testing and CRISPR successful Utero Gene Therapy.”

He went done a past of exertion successful obstetrics and gynecology and its impact, including some successes and failures.

He spoke astir ultrasound. What was erstwhile a rudimentary technology, it present offers real-time three-dimensional views of the fetus.

“Today, not lone tin we spot the baby, but we tin place anomalies. Out of this we developed a full country of attraction called prenatal diagnosis, wherever we tin surface for familial abnormalities and place structural issues. This country has evolved from not lone diagnosing problems, but fixing them portion the baby’s wrong the womb,” Waters said.

The ethical issues turn ever much challenging, with CRISPR allowing the anticipation of changing DNA successful patients.

“The possibilities of CRISPR are amazing, nevertheless for present determination are much questions than answers,” Waters said. “How bash we attack the ethical issues this raises?”

He besides addressed inequities successful maternal-fetal attraction facing women of color, and the increasing disparities for women successful municipality areas vs. those successful agrarian areas.

“Technology has made immoderate singular advancements for obstetrics, with much to come. However, those advancements person not narrowed the gaps we spot successful our astir persistently challenging outcomes. We person galore opportunities to code inequities some locally and regionally, to elevate the attraction and outcomes for our patients,” Waters said.

The ceremonial took spot successful the Ronald I. Dozoretz, MD ’62 Auditorium astatine the Jacobs School building.