When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy.
The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue perinatal and placental pathology, was on a third-trimester stillbirth. “There was nothing wrong with the baby, it was a beautiful baby,” she recalled. We’re not done, she remembers her teacher telling her, go find the placenta.
