About

Heather A. Reed, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery and holds leadership roles including Assistant Program Director of the Residency and Clerkship Director. Dr. Reed earned her medical degree from Wake Forest University in 2005 and completed her residency at the University of Arizona in 2009. She is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Her clinical specialties include general obstetrics and gynecology, with clinical services provided such as annual exams, birth control, laparoscopic procedures, prenatal care, sexual dysfunction, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Research topics

• Humanities
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Cognitive psychology
• Surgery
• Medicine
• Public administration
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Business
• Internal medicine
• Public relations
• Law

Selected publications

• The Emirates Main Belt Infrared Spectrometer (EMBIRS) onboard the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt

  2025-07-09

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  The Emirates Main Belt Infrared Spectrometer (EMBIRS), one of four remote sensing instruments onboard the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), is designed to collect data on six main-belt asteroid flybys, ending with proximity operations at 269 Justitia. EMBIRS will measure the emitted spectral radiance of these asteroids providing constraints on the thermophysical properties and spectral character/composition of these asteroids. In combination with the other instruments on the EMA payload, EMBIRS will address the key goals of the mission, specifically evaluating the origins and evolution of water-rich asteroids and their resource potential. EMBIRS measurements address several mission science objectives, including mapping the silicate mineralogy of compositionally diverse, water-rich asteroids, supporting the evaluation of their geologic history, and characterizing the temperature and thermophysical properties of multiple asteroids to assess their formation, surface evolution, and volatile histories.The EMBIRS instrument is an interferometric thermal infrared spectrometer developed and provided by Northern Arizona University (NAU) and Arizona State University (ASU) in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for inclusion on the United Arab Emirates Space Agency’s EMA mission. It builds on a long heritage of thermal infrared spectrometers designed, built, and managed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility. EMBIRS is most directly akin to the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS) on the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM). EMBIRS is a build to print of EMIRS except for minor modifications to the mechanical and thermal interfaces (Figures 1 & 2). EMBIRS is 53x29x32 cm, has a mass of ~12.7 kg, and requires 21 W during operational activities. EMBIRS collects spectral data from 6-40+ µm at 10 and 20 cm-1 spectral sampling. This instrument utilizes an on-axis deuterated L-alanine doped triglycine sulfate (DLaTGS) detector and a scan mirror to make infrared radiance measurements of the asteroids during flybys and 269 Justitia proximity operations.Under the current concept of operations, EMBIRS achieves complete global coverage (daytime and nighttime observations) of 269 Justitia within 8 weeks of observing with pixel sizes of

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• Topical Negative Pressure Wound Therapy to Prevent Wound Complications Following Cesarean Delivery in High-Risk Obstetric Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  Obstetric Anesthesia Digest · 2024-05-22

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  ( Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol . 2023;63:516–520) The prevalence of cesarean deliveries (CD) has surged in recent decades, paralleling an uptick in medical complications during pregnancy linked to delayed childbearing and rising obesity rates. Consequently, post-CD wound complications have become a significant health concern. Mitigating these complications is a priority, with various wound vacuum systems available. While concerns persist about their effectiveness compared to standard treatments, some evidence suggests modest benefits, particularly in nonobstetric settings. The PICO wound vacuum system has shown promise for clean, noninfected surgical wounds, including cesarean incisions, though data is mainly from small trials or retrospective cohorts. Our study explores the use of PICO in preventing wound infections and breakdown in women with risk factors for complications postcesarean delivery.

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• Let's Eat Healthy: Amplifying Nutrition Education Through Collaboration

  Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior · 2024-07-26

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• Impact of a P-zero Pharmacy Preparation Program on First Year Pharmacy Student Performance

  American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education · 2023-08-01

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  To address declining student academic performance, the P-zero (P0) pharmacy preparation program was created to orient and prepare students to the PharmD program. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of the P0 Program on student preparedness and performance in their first semester of pharmacy school.

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• The First Observations of Deimos from the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Flybys

  2023-02-26

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  The origins of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos remain enigmatic. Over the past decades a range of spacecraft have observed Phobos and Deimos in order to constrain their origin and evolutionary history, with proposals for their origins ranging from captured asteroids, to coalesced material from a giant impact on Mars. However, given the orbits these spacecraft and the orbits of Phobos and Deimos, Phobos has garnered the majority of the attention. Now thanks to the unique orbit of the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Hope spacecraft and a minor correction to its nominal science orbit, EMM has a unique opportunity to examine Deimos in great detail while fully retaining the originally designed mission to capture the variability in the martian atmosphere and exosphere.Following a minor orbital adjustment maneuver campaign beginning in August 2022, EMM will encounter Deimos multiple times, progressively observing the martian moon at lower and lower distances beginning in early 2023. These flybys culminate in the closest approach of ~150 km, observing the mostly illuminated, far side of Deimos. All three EMM instruments, the Emirates eXploration Imager (EXI), the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS), and the Emirates Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EMUS) have observation sequences tailored to these flybys, collecting the highest resolution multispectral visible imaging data, thermal infrared surface temperatures and emission spectra, and ultraviolet spectra.  When combined these instrument observations will provide key insights into the composition, morphology, and surface physical properties of the least studied martian moon, Deimos.

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• Topical negative pressure wound therapy to prevent wound complications following caesarean delivery in high‐risk obstetric patients: A randomised controlled trial

  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology · 2023 · 3 citations

  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Internal medicine

  BACKGROUND AND AIMS: We investigated whether the use of a prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system in women undergoing caesarean would decrease wound complications in a high-risk population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A randomised controlled trial was performed. Women with risk factors for wound complications undergoing caesarean delivery were randomised to a standard dressing or NPWT placed over their caesarean wound. We standardised the closure of the subcutaneous fat and skin layers, both with Vicryl. Patients were followed for wound complications for up to 6 weeks after their caesareans. The incidence of wound complications was the primary outcome. The single-use NPWT system, PICO, was provided by Smith and Nephew for use in this trial. The trial was registered on clinicaltrials.gov, # NCT03082664. RESULTS: We report here on 154 women randomised to either a standard dressing or to the NPWT. Wound complication rates were equivalent between groups, with 19.4 and 19.7% (P = 0.43) of women with follow-up information available experiencing wound complications. CONCLUSION: We found no difference in wound complications in women with risk factors treated with a prophylactic NPWT system or standard wound dressing at the time of caesarean birth.

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• Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"

  2021-01-02

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• Trapped by a first hypothesis: How rudeness leads to anchoring.

  Journal of Applied Psychology · 2021 · 17 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Humanities
  • Psychology

  In this article we explore the effect of encounters with rudeness on the tendency to engage in anchoring, one of the most robust and widespread cognitive biases. Integrating the self-immersion framework with the selective accessibility model (SAM), we propose that rudeness-induced negative arousal will narrow individuals' perspectives in a way that will make anchoring more likely. Additionally, we posit that perspective taking and information elaboration will attenuate the effect of rudeness on both negative arousal and subsequent anchoring. Across four experimental studies, we test the impact of exposure to rudeness on anchoring as manifested in a variety of tasks (medical diagnosis, judgment tasks, and negotiation). In a pilot study, we find that rudeness is associated with anchoring among a group of medical students making a medical diagnosis. In Study 1, we show that negative arousal mediates the effect of rudeness on anchoring among medical residents treating a patient, and that perspective taking moderates these effects. Study 2 replicates the results of Study 1 using a common anchoring task, and Study 3 builds on these results by replicating them in a negotiation setting and testing information elaboration as a boundary condition. Across the four studies, we find consistent evidence that rudeness-induced negative arousal leads to anchoring, and that these effects can be mitigated by perspective taking and information elaboration. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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• Author response for "The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises"

  2021-02-01

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• The perfect storm in the midst of a pandemic: the use of information within an institution's concurrent crises

  Online Information Review · 2021 · 25 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Public relations

  Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the types of information that were shared by the institution, and faculty/staff responses to the information shared, with the goal of providing recommendations for other institutions facing concurrent crises. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-methods case study examines a public university's experiences managing the Covid-19 pandemic crisis while simultaneously navigating financial challenges that had been building over time. Using data from university-wide mediated communications and a survey of on-campus stakeholders during the Covid-19 pandemic and university retrenchment process, this paper explores institutional communication, stakeholder response to organizational communication and faculty/staff reactions to information in the midst of concurrent crises. Findings The study found that the university used instructing and advising information within its messages from its top administrator but fell short of incorporating empathy for its stakeholders in its initial responses. Research limitations/implications Using the situational crisis communication theory (Coombs, 2019), which recommends the use of an ethical base response to crises, implications are provided for other organizations facing concurrent crises during the Covid-19 pandemic, to also incorporate empathy in their messages to stakeholders whose livelihoods are being affected, across multiple platforms. Originality/value Weathering the Covid-19 pandemic and long-term financial pitfalls have proven to be a disruptive phenomenon for higher education institutions. This research expands understanding of institutional communication and stakeholder reactions in a higher education institution facing both the Covid-19 crisis and a retrenchment. Peer review The peer-review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-09-2020-0415 .

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Frequent coauthors

• Matthew F. Ryan

  8 shared

• Sean Kiley

  Mayo Clinic in Florida

  8 shared

• Chris Giordano

  8 shared

• Peggy White

  8 shared

• Shannan Young

  5 shared

• Chris Jeppesen

  University of Cambridge

  4 shared

• Faryal Shareef

  Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases

  4 shared

• Richard Amini

  University of Arizona

  4 shared

Labs

• Heather A Reed LabPI

Education

• Educational Specialist degree in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, Higher Education and Student Affairs

  The University of Iowa

  2018

• Masters of Science , College Student Personnel

  Western Illinois University

  2004

• Bachelor of Arts , English

  Truman State University

  2002