Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM)

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
PGY5

Residency
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Medical School
Tufts University School of Medicine

Ethan Litman, MD
PGY5

Residency
George Washington University

Medical School
Albany Medical College

Bridget Donovan, MD
PGY7

Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Medical School
Harvard Medical School

Apply to the MFM Fellowship

Applicants interested in this combined 4-year training pathway must submit their application by April 28, 2025. Please email Dayana Valerio at dvaleri1@bidmc.harvard.edu to be considered. 

Application Requirements: To be considered for this fellowship, please submit the following materials to our program directors, Dr. Melissa Spiel and Dr. Millie Anne

Ferrés, via Dayana Valerio at dvaleri1@bidmc.harvard.edu by April 28, 2025 (BOLD DATE). 

·    Curriculum Vitae 

·    Three letters of recommendation 

·    United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores 

·    CREOG scores

·    Personal statement 

Eligibility: Candidates must be eligible for medical licensure in Massachusetts and be board eligible or board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Candidates must be US citizens.

Interviews will be held May 2025.