Positions

Assistant Professor

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine/Fetal Intervention
Baylor College of Medicine
Austin, Texas United States

Addresses

Texas Children's Hospital (Clinic)

9835 North Lake Creek Parkway
Austin, TX 78717
United States

Education

BA from Thomas Aquinas College

05/2011 - Santa Paula, California United States

MS from University of Mary

04/2022 - Bismark, North Dakota United States

Bioethics

MD from Texas A&M Health Science Center

06/2015 - Bryan, Texas United States

Residency at Saint Louis University School of Medicine

06/2019 - St. Louis, Missouri United States

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clinical Fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

06/2022 - Houston, Texas United States

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

07/2024 - Houston, Texas United States

Fetal Intervention

Certifications

Board Certification, Obstetrics and Gynecology

#9035322 (01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023)

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Board Eligible, Maternal-Fetal Medicine

#9035322 (01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023)

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Professional Statement

Dr. Buskmiller is a board-certified OB/GYN and a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine physician practicing in fetal intervention full-time at Texas Children's Hospital North Austin campus.

Her research interests focus on device innovation in fetal surgery. Fetal intervention has very few instruments as a field, and most tools are co-opted from neighboring fields in medicine and surgery. Her interests in optimizing patients’ experiences prompts her to study on clinical outcomes related to surgery, ultrasound, and device design. With collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine, she holds a patent in vaginal stent design and is currently working on optimizing tools for fetal surgery.

Her clinical focus is on fetal diagnosis, fetal surgery, and perinatal palliative care. She has a masters degree in ethics and a personal interest in device design and clinical optimization of care, including psychosocial and palliative aspects of fetal intervention. Her research in fetal anomalies, fetal interventions, and reproductive loss spans a decade of research, beginning in 2013 with a nationwide survey of maternity group homes. She is developing a brief tool to screen for complicated grief after reproductive loss in partnership with IU and the Institute for Reproductive Grief Care. Dr. Buskmiller regularly contributes to ethical literature and collaborates with a wide variety of co-authors for robust perspectives.

Throughout her career, Dr. Buskmiller has engaged in public speaking to scientific and lay audiences, and has also developed peer review skills in ethical and medical literature.

Selected Publications

• C Buskmiller, BC Calhoun "A Scoping Review of Perinatal Palliative Care: Allowing Parents to Be Parents." Am J Perinatol. 2021 Dec 2; Pubmed PMID: 34856607
• D Petersen, C Buskmiller "Dyspareunia From Large Retained Fetal Bone Diagnosed by Pelvic Ultrasound." J Ultrasound Med. 2017 Oct;36(10):2187. Pubmed PMID: 28556357
• C Buskmiller, H Rosenberg, S Sen "Hemoperitoneum after Ovulation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia." Case Rep Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Jan 16;2019:7201650. Pubmed PMID: 30792931
• C Buskmiller, E P Bergh, C Brock, J Miller, A Baschat, H Galan, N Behrendt, M Habli, J L Peiro, S Snowise, J Fisher, C Macpherson, E Thom, C Pedroza, A Johnson, S Blackwell, R Papanna "Interventions to prevent preterm delivery in women with short cervix before fetoscopic laser surgery for twin-twin transfusion syndrome." Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Feb;59(2):169-176. Pubmed PMID: 34129709

Memberships

American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Fellow (08/2022)

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Member (07/2022)

International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society

Member (08/2022)

Languages

Spanish