Email

Positions

Assistant Professor

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, United States

PhD from Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

Websites

Selected Publications

• Seferovic MD, Turley M, Valentine GC, Rac M, Castro ECC, Major AM, Sanchez B, Eppes C, Sanz-Cortes M, Dunn J, Kautz TF, Versalovic J, Muldrew KL, Stout T, Belfort MA, Demmler-Harrison G, Aagaard KM. " Clinical Importance of Placental Testing among Suspected Cases of Congenital Zika Syndrome " Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Feb ; 7 (20(3))
  Pubmed PMID: 30736425.
• Seferovic M, Sánchez-San Martín C, Tardif SD, Rutherford J, Castro ECC, Li T, Hodara VL, Parodi LM, Giavedoni L, Layne-Colon D, Tamhankar M, Yagi S, Martyn C, Reyes K, Suter MA, Aagaard KM, Chiu CY, Patterson JL. " Experimental Zika Virus Infection in the Pregnant Common Marmoset Induces Spontaneous Fetal Loss and Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities " Sci Rep. 2018 May ;
  Pubmed PMID: 29717225.
• Seferovic MD, Beamish CA, Mosser RE, Townsend SE, Pappan K, Poitout V, Aagaard K, Gannon M. " Increases in bioactive lipids accompany early metabolic changes associated with β-cell expansion in response to short-term high fat diet " Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Aug ;
  Pubmed PMID: 30106624.
• Valentine GC, Seferovic MD, Fowler SW, Major AM, Gorchakov R, Berry R, Swennes AG, Murray KO, Suter MA, Aagaard KM. " Timing of gestational exposure to Zika virus is associated with postnatal growth restriction in a murine model " Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Oct ;
  Pubmed PMID: 29902449.
• Dudley DM, Van Rompay KK, Coffey LL, Ardeshir A, Keesler RI, Bliss-Moreau E, Grigsby PL, Steinbach RJ, Hirsch AJ, MacAllister RP, Pecoraro HL, Colgin LM, Hodge T, Streblow DN, Tardif S, Patterson JL, Tamhankar M, Seferovic M, Aagaard KM, et al.. " Miscarriage and stillbirth following maternal Zika virus infection in nonhuman primates " Nat Med. 2018 Aug ;
  Pubmed PMID: 29967348.
• Aagaard KM, Lahon A, Suter MA, Arya RP, Seferovic MD, Vogt MB, Hu M, Stossi F, Mancini MA, Harris RA, Kahr M, Eppes C, Rac M, Belfort MA, Park CS, Lacorazza D, Rico-Hesse R. " Primary Human Placental Trophoblasts are Permissive for Zika Virus (ZIKV) Replication " Sci Rep. 2017 Jan ;
  Pubmed PMID: 28128342.
• Chu DM, Ma J, Prince AL, Antony KM, Seferovic MD, Aagaard KM. " Maturation of the infant microbiome community structure and function across multiple body sites and in relation to mode of delivery " Nat Med. 2017 Mar ;
  Pubmed PMID: 28112736.
• Eppes C, Rac M, Dunn J, Versalovic J, Murray KO, Suter MA, Sanz Cortes M, Espinoza J, Seferovic MD, Lee W, Hotez P, Mastrobattista J, Clark SL, Belfort MA, Aagaard KM. " Testing for Zika virus infection in pregnancy: key concepts to deal with an emerging epidemic " Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2017 Mar ;
  Pubmed PMID: 28126366.
• Seferovic MD, Gupta MB. " Increased Umbilical Cord PAI-1 Levels in Placental Insufficiency Are Associated with Fetal Hypoxia and Angiogenesis " Dis Markers. 2016 Jan ;
  Pubmed PMID: 26903689.
• Gonzalez-Rodriguez P, Cantu J, O'Neil D, Seferovic MD, Goodspeed DM, Suter MA, Aagaard KM. " Alterations in expression of imprinted genes from the H19/IGF2 loci in a multigenerational model of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) " Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 May ;
  Pubmed PMID: 26880735.
• Seferovic MD, Goodspeed DM, Chu DM, Krannich LA, Gonzalez-Rodriguez PJ, Cox JE, Aagaard KM. " Heritable IUGR and adult metabolic syndrome are reversible and associated with alterations in the metabolome following dietary supplementation of 1-carbon intermediates " FASEB J. 2015 Jun ;
  Pubmed PMID: 25757570.
• Hantoushzadeh S., Shamshirsaz AA, Aleyasin A, Seferovic MD, et al.. " Maternal Death Due to COVID-19 Disease " Am J Obstet Gynecol.. 2020 Jul ; 109
  Pubmed PMID: 32360108.