The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
College of Medicine
395 W. 12th Ave., 5th Floor
Columbus, OH, 43210
kartik.venkatesh@osumc.edu
Dr. Venkatesh is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, maternal-fetal medicine specialist and PhD epidemiologist who specializes in providing evidence-based care to mothers with high-risk pregnancies. He understands that a high-risk pregnancy can be anxiety-provoking for mothers and their families, and he always prioritizes doing all he can to make the experience positive, inclusive and natural for his patients.
Dr. Venkatesh has just as much passion and drive for his research and has authored more than 150 scientific manuscripts focused on diabetes in pregnancy, adverse pregnancy outcomes and perinatal infectious diseases. He is the director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Perinatal Epidemiology Program, which leads public health research programs to better serve mothers and infants affected by high-risk pregnancies. Dr. Venkatesh is director of the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center's Diabetes in Pregnancy Program. The program, one of the nation's oldest and largest integrated diabetes prenatal care programs, serves more than 800 pregnant individuals with diabetes and their families across Ohio every year.
He is currently serving as the principal investigator on three federally funded studies, including a National Institutes of Health-funded study to examine the impact of maternal cardiometabolic health on long-term child neurodevelopment. Another study, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is focused on addressing the needs of Medicaid-insured pregnant individuals with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes. In addition, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded study is analyzing whether metformin is non-inferior to insulin for prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes and safe through two years postpartum.
Research interests
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Reproductive infectious diseases
- Perinatal epidemiology
- Clinical predictive models in obstetrics
- Disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes
Education
- Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- PhD: Brown University
- Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School
- Fellowship: Maternal Fetal Medicine and Global Women’s Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Board Certifications
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Maternal Fetal Medicine
Honors and Awards
- Quilligan Scholar, The Pregnancy Foundation and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Young Investigator Award, Perinatal Research Society, 2019
Professional Activities
- Board Examiner, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG)
- Editorial Board, Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Chair, Pregnancy and Diabetes Guidelines, World Health Organization (WHO)