Loralei Thornburg is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester, where she did both Obstetrics and Gynecology residency and Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship. She now serves as both the division and fellowship director. A native of western Michigan, she went to medical school at Wayne State in Detroit. She teaches annually at the SMFM/Banner Obstetrical Critical Care course, including both lecture and simulation- which focus on optimizing care for pregnant patient with critical illness and events. She has the only neurology in pregnancy book that includes a multidisciplinary authorship across the broad range of specialists needed to care for neurologic disease in pregnancy. She lives with her husband, an internist, as well as 2 children, a leopard gecko, and a rabbit.