![Headshot photo of a smiling white male faculty member with glasses, Dr. Yair Blumenfeld, Professor of OBGYN at Stanford University.](https://biox.stanford.edu/files/styles/profile_thumbnail/public/yair_blumenfeld_profile.webp?orig=png)
Dr. Yair Blumenfeld is a Professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine & Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is management of high-risk pregnancies in the outpatient and inpatient settings, including comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care. He serves as the fetal therapy domain lead for the Dunlevie Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center for Discovery, Innovation and Clinical Impact, as well as the Director of Fetal Therapy at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He has been involved in multidisciplinary clinical and translational research for over 15 years at Stanford, with a focus on clinical obstetrics, prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy, and prematurity. He is particularly interested in novel technologies and device development to improve treatment of these areas. Dr. Blumenfeld has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, he is a reviewer for multiple obstetrics and gynecology journals, and is on the editorial board of the journal Prenatal Diagnosis. His research is supported by multiple funding mechanisms including by the Institutes of Health.