Rodney A. McLaren, Jr is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine faculty attending and an Assistant Professor of Ob/Gyn at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He is the Director of MFM Outpatient Care and an active IRB member on the Hickok board at TJU. His clinical and research interests are high-risk pregnancies, in particular diabetes in pregnancy. He has established the Jefferson Diabetes in Pregnancy Program, a multidisciplinary program with Endocrinology at TJU, which will begin accepting new patients November 2023.