Manuel Porto, MD

Professor and Chairman
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
E-mail: mporto@uci.edu
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Dr. Porto received his M.D. degree from Rutgers Medical School (now Robert Wood Johnson of Medicine), completed his internship and residency in OB/GYN at L.A. County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and his fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at U.C. Irvine & Long Beach Memorial Medical Centers. He is board certified in both Obstetrics & Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine. He currently serves as Professor & Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California Irvine and also directs the UCI Center for Fetal Evaluation.

          Dr. Porto was listed in Orange Coast Magazine as one of Orange County's Top Doctors (2000), and was selected by his peers to be included in the Best Doctors in America: National Edition (1992-93, 1994-95, and 1998), as well as the Pacific Region (1996-97). He was one of only three Orange County based obstetricians selected by over 11,000 physicians surveyed for this listing. Dr. Porto was also listed in Good Housekeeping magazine's Best Doctors for Women, 1997.

Research Interests

The author of 10 book chapters and over 80 research articles and abstracts, he is also co-editor of the current textbook Diagnostic Obstetrical Ultrasound. His research interests focus in the areas of fetal diagnosis and therapy, antepartum fetal testing, recurrent pregnancy loss, multifetal pregnancies and preterm birth prevention.

Education
Degree	Major	University	Year
Fellowship	Maternal Fetal Medicine	University of California, Irvine/Long Beach Memorial Hospital	1986
Internship/ Residency	Obstetrics and Gynecology	LA County Harbor General	1979
M.D.	Medicine	Rutgers Medical School	1975
B.S.	Biology/Psychology	State University of New York	1971

Selected Publications

Tio M, Tewari K, Balderston KD, Milliken JC, Porto M. Emergency mitral valve replacement in the setting of severe pulmonary hypertension and acute cardiovascular decompensation following evacuation of twins at 15 weeks gestation. Am J of OB/GYN, accepted December, 1997.

Wadhwa PD, Porto M, Chicz-DeMet A, Sandman CA. Maternal CRH levels in the early third trimester predict length of gestation in human pregnancy. Am J OB/GYN, 179:1079-1085, 1998.

Sandman CA, Wadhwa PD, Chicz-DeMet A, Porto M, Garite Tj. Maternal corticotropin-releasing hormone and habituation in the human fetus. Developmental Psychobiology 34:163-173, 1999.

Sandman CA, Wadhwa PD, Glynn L, Chicz-DeMet A, Porto M, Garite TJ. Corticotrophin-releasing hormone and fetal responses in human pregnancy. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 897:66-75, 1999.