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
• Taylor S. Freret, MD Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Kolawole "Yinka" Oyelese, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Scott Shainker, DO, Director, New England Center for Placental Disorders
• Brett Young, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Dr. Sarah Little, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Julian Robinson, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Nigel I. Madden, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Ingrid A. Liff, 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

April 27, 2026: Deadline for applications to be included in the first notification.

May 18, 2026: Single notification date for interviews.

May 26, 2026: Initial deadline to accept or decline interviews.

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Matching Dates

June 24, 2026:
Match Opens

July 15, 2026: 
Ranking Opens

September 19, 2026:
Ranking Closes

September 23, 2026:
Match Day

Please email Dayana Valerio at dvaleri1@bidmc.harvard.edu for any questions regarding our fellowship.