Meet Sonia Hassan:

Detroit News Michiganian of the Year. Crain's Health Care Hero. March of Dimes' Prematurity Prevention Hero. Director of the WSU Perinatal Initiative. Project Site Manager for the Perinatology Research Branch. Director of Mayor Mike Duggan's Preterm Birth Reduction Plan. Co-chair of the Michigan Infant Mortality Advisory Committee. Fellow of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. Member of the Society for Reproductive Investigation and the National Arab-American Medical Association. Noted presenter and media expert on the topic of preterm birth. … And a faculty member in the School of Medicine.

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