Jennifer L. Pfau, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Biography
Dr. Jennifer Pfau (Clinical Associate Professor) joined the Department of Family Medicine in 2008 and served as the Maternal Child Health Director from 2016-2024, leading a team of thirty family doctors working on Labor and Delivery, the Postpartum Unit, and the Newborn Nursery. She is currently the Interim Director of Postpartum and Newborn Care for the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Pfau is passionate about medical education and mentorship. She is core faculty and a resident advisor in the Family Medicine Residency Program. She precepts residents at the NeighborHealth clinic in East Boston, working with a primarily Spanish-speaking immigrant/underserved patient population. Dr. Pfau is also the Associate Program Director for the Preventive Medicine Residency Program (co-founder, Community Prevention and Maternal Health Equity Track). Dr. Pfau has an interest in global health and has volunteered in Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Lesotho and Cambodia.
Expertise in maternal/child health:
1) Maternal Child Health Director (Department of Family Medicine) 2016-2024, currently the Interim Director of Postpartum and Newborn Care (Department of Family Medicine)
2) ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) Certified Instructor and Advisory Faculty
3) NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) Certified Instructor and Instructor Mentor
4) Centering Pregnancy: Level II/Advanced Facilitation training
5) Past Course Director for the 4th year medical student Maternal Child Health elective
Education
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, MD
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, BS
Publications
- Published on 4/30/2021
Choi Y, Hoffman J, Alarcon L, Pfau J, Bolourchi M. Neonatal arrhythmias in Turner syndrome: a case report and review of the literature. Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2021 Apr; 5(4):ytab160. PMID: 34124555.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/1/2007
Quadros PS, Pfau JL, Wagner CK. Distribution of progesterone receptor immunoreactivity in the fetal and neonatal rat forebrain. J Comp Neurol. 2007 Sep 1; 504(1):42-56. PMID: 17614295.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/22/2007
Barks JD, Liu YQ, Shangguan Y, Li J, Pfau J, Silverstein FS. Impact of indolent inflammation on neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in mice. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2008 Feb; 26(1):57-65. PMID: 17923368.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/26/2003
Wagner CK, Xu J, Pfau JL, Quadros PS, De Vries GJ, Arnold AP. Neonatal mice possessing an Sry transgene show a masculinized pattern of progesterone receptor expression in the brain independent of sex chromosome status. Endocrinology. 2004 Mar; 145(3):1046-9. PMID: 14645115.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/1/2002
Quadros PS, Pfau JL, Goldstein AY, De Vries GJ, Wagner CK. Sex differences in progesterone receptor expression: a potential mechanism for estradiol-mediated sexual differentiation. Endocrinology. 2002 Oct; 143(10):3727-39. PMID: 12239082.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/5/2001
Wagner CK, Pfau JL, De Vries GJ, Merchenthaler IJ. Sex differences in progesterone receptor immunoreactivity in neonatal mouse brain depend on estrogen receptor alpha expression. J Neurobiol. 2001 Jun 5; 47(3):176-82. PMID: 11333399.
Read at: PubMed