Assistant professer
Showa medical university koto toyosu hospital / Obestetrics and Gynecology, Japan
Risa Arai, MD is an obstetrician and gynecologist at Showa University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Arai specializes in maternal-fetal medicine, with a particular focus on preterm birth and the optimization of antenatal corticosteroid therapy in very low birth weight infants.
Her clinical and research interests center on improving neonatal outcomes through evidence-based perinatal care and the appropriate use of antenatal interventions.
At SMFM 2026, she will present her research titled “Two antenatal corticosteroid doses are necessary to decrease neonatal mortality in VLBW infants.”