Catherine Bigelow, MD
My specialties:
- Maternal and fetal medicine (high-risk pregnancy)
Professional interests:
- Maternal morbidity and well-being
- Pre-term birth, prevention and management
- Prenatal ultrasound and fetal diagnosis
- Global Health
- Clinical Research
My practice philosophy is o educate patients & families while providing the best care for a healthy mom & baby. I'm passionate about pregnancy, mothers, music and travel. I love to sing and have participated in choral music for 20 years. My husband and I have the travel bug and are currently on a quest to visit all of the National Parks in the United States!
I love treating patients with complex conditions and the challenge of a new patient, made more challenging by pregnancy physiology. Obstetrics is so unique, unlike any other field in medicine. Maternal-fetal medicine is as much art as it is science - every patient is a little bit different and needs to be considered individually. I don't shy away from hard conversations - the counseling that no one else wants to do. Part of the beauty of being a high-risk obstetrician is getting to partner with women to achieve the best outcome.
I started kickboxing and yoga in the past 1-2 years. I'm also trying to eat a more plant-based diet, to help curb my carbon footprint, which feels great!
I'm the most proud of designing, implementing and executing a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial as my fellowship thesis, studying the use of propranolol for induction of labor in nulliparous women.
A few of my personal achievements include running the Boston half-marathon as a chief resident. Visiting all 50 states before the age of 30. Successfully participating in choral music throughout all of my medical training.
Credentials
- MD
Board-certified specialties
- Maternal and fetal medicine (high-risk pregnancy)
Personal interests
- Baking
- Singing
- Skiing
- Travel
Educational institutions
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Memberships
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- American College of Medical Genetics & Genomics
- American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Internships
- Brigham & Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital
Residencies
- Brigham & Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowships
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Years of experience
- 10
Additional languages spoken
- Spanish
Hospital affiliations
- The Mother Baby Center at Abbott Northwestern and Children's Minnesota
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Major health plans we accept
- Allina Health | Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
- HealthPartners
- Medica
- PreferredOne*
- SelectCare/LaborCare
- UCare
- UnitedHealthcare
Other health plans we accept
- Medicaid/Medicare*
- Aetna
- America's PPO
- First Health/Coventry
- CIGNA
- Humana
- Hennepin Health (formerly Metropolitan Health Plan)
- PrimeWest
- South Country Health Alliance
- United Behavioral Health
- Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)