Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM)
Academic Year 2025-2026
About the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship
The mission of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at BIDMC is to create leaders with robust clinical training, a world-class education and a broad range of individual opportunities in clinical innovation, research, advocacy and quality improvement in an innovative and progressive work environment. We aim to train individuals to become superb clinicians, leaders in the field of maternal-fetal medicine, productive researchers and inspiring teachers while providing compassion and humanism to patients.
The goals of our fellowship program are to:
- Ensure that graduating fellows are capable of practicing the breadth and depth of clinical maternal-fetal medicine. They will graduate, knowing how to provide expert maternal-fetal medicine consultation for antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and preconception care.
- Train physicians to perform complicated deliveries, excelling in obstetric ultrasound diagnosis and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
- Ensure excellence in the evaluation and treatment of complicated medical disorders of pregnancy in the outpatient and inpatient setting.
- Foster participation in multidisciplinary conferences during their tenure, as well as conduct research projects and develop innovative approaches to clinical care with the guidance of faculty mentors.
The fellowship curriculum consists of 12 months of protected research time and 24 months of clinical, including ultrasound, labor and delivery, antepartum, prenatal genetic, infectious disease, critical care and fetal cardiology. Fellows may also participate in OB/GYN medical education weekly perinatology conferences and other educational opportunities.
Fellowship Leadership & Teaching Faculty
Meet the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship leadership, faculty and staff.
Melissa Spiel, DO, Fellowship Program Director
Chloe Zera, MD, MPH, Division Chief, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Ai-ris Collier, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Uma Deshmukh, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Cassandra Duffy, MD, MPH, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Millie Ferres, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Megha Gupta, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Linda Kleeman, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Sarah Little, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Kolawole "Yinka" Oyelese, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Julian Robinson, MD, MBA Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Scott Shainker, DO, Director, New England Center for Placental Disorders
Brett Young, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Meet Our Fellows
Meet our current fellows in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship.

Daniela Febres-Cordero, MD
PGY7
Residency
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Medical School
Tufts University School of Medicine

Ethan Litman, MD
PGY7
Residency
George Washington University
Medical School
Albany Medical College
Apply to the MFM Fellowship- Dates TBD.
Please email Dayana Valerio at dvaleri1@bidmc.harvard.edu for any questions regarding our fellowship.