Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship
Mission & Vision
The mission of our Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program is to provide quality training for leaders in maternal-fetal medicine. Specifically, we aim to recruit the most promising obstetrics and gynecology residency graduates, providing education and training over a period of three years with the goal of ensuring that each fellow graduates as a highly competent MFM practitioner, ready for a career in academic medicine, community-based practice or research. We strive to achieve these objectives within the context of a secure and nurturing learning environment that promotes excellence in critical-care obstetrics, perinatal ultrasonography, prenatal diagnosis and obstetric surgical training, as well as inpatient and outpatient obstetric management.
Our comprehensive program exposes fellows to all aspects of this subspecialty, including fetal diagnosis and therapy, genetics, maternal complications of pregnancy, obstetric complications, and basic science, clinical and translational research. Our academic environment, clinical and research faculty, diverse patient population and the breadth of complicated pregnancies will provide graduating fellows with a comprehensive foundation of clinical and research experience necessary to launch a successful career in MFM. Our training program is organized so graduates will meet Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine educational objectives and competencies for subspecialty board certification and successful practice in MFM.
Mission & Vision
The mission of our Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program is to provide quality training for leaders in maternal-fetal medicine. Specifically, we aim to recruit the most promising obstetrics and gynecology residency graduates, providing education and training over a period of three years with the goal of ensuring that each fellow graduates as a highly competent MFM practitioner, ready for a career in academic medicine, community-based practice or research. We strive to achieve these objectives within the context of a secure and nurturing learning environment that promotes excellence in critical-care obstetrics, perinatal ultrasonography, prenatal diagnosis and obstetric surgical training, as well as inpatient and outpatient obstetric management.
Our comprehensive program exposes fellows to all aspects of this subspecialty, including fetal diagnosis and therapy, genetics, maternal complications of pregnancy, obstetric complications, and basic science, clinical and translational research. Our academic environment, clinical and research faculty, diverse patient population and the breadth of complicated pregnancies will provide graduating fellows with a comprehensive foundation of clinical and research experience necessary to launch a successful career in MFM. Our training program is organized so graduates will meet Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine educational objectives and competencies for subspecialty board certification and successful practice in MFM.
Program Director’s Welcome
We appreciate your interest in our program and look forward to showing you all of what makes us so proud of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program and the UM Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Program Director’s Welcome
We appreciate your interest in our program and look forward to showing you all of what makes us so proud of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program and the UM Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Fellows have a breadth of opportunities that can be focused on individual interests, including biostatistics and epidemiology; critical care; fetal echocardiogram; genetics and infectious disease. Our fetal therapy program continues to expand and fellows have exposure to advanced procedures. Fellows are all trained in amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling.
Our program is based at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, in addition to the UHealth Tower, a University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility and various UHealth clinics. Jackson Memorial Hospital is a tertiary care referral center for high-risk pregnancies in South Florida, and the surrounding domestic and international regions.
The surroundings in which you train are an important aspect of selecting a fellowship program and Miami is a unique and wonderful place to both work and live. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come discover for yourself why patients, physicians and students from across the country and around the world are drawn to Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. We look forward to receiving your application and in training prominent academic leaders in our subspecialty.
-Anna Sfakianaki, MD, MPH
Description
Fellows have a breadth of opportunities that can be focused on individual interests, including biostatistics and epidemiology; critical care; fetal echocardiogram; genetics and infectious disease. Our fetal therapy program continues to expand and fellows have exposure to advanced procedures. Fellows are all trained in amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling.
Our program is based at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, in addition to the UHealth Tower, a University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility and various UHealth clinics. Jackson Memorial Hospital is a tertiary care referral center for high-risk pregnancies in South Florida, and the surrounding domestic and international regions.
The surroundings in which you train are an important aspect of selecting a fellowship program and Miami is a unique and wonderful place to both work and live. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come discover for yourself why patients, physicians and students from across the country and around the world are drawn to Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. We look forward to receiving your application and in training prominent academic leaders in our subspecialty.
-Anna Sfakianaki, MD, MPH
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
2
Duration of Fellowship?
3 years
Clinical Experience
Overview
Our Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program is academically oriented, with formal conferences, chapter reviews, journal clubs, maternal/fetal case reviews and lectures, as well as informal rounds. In addition, one-third of the fellowship is devoted to clinical/basic science research. During the three-year tenure, the fellow will complete all of the requirements of the ABOG Division of MFM.
Additionally, research is an integral part of our program and fellows will actively engage in research activities throughout all three years.
Year 1
Year 1 of the MFM fellowship is comprised of clinical experience with rotations in high risk outpatient clinics, ultrasound, in-patient high-risk obstetrics, SICU, and genetics as well as one month in research with specific opportunities to develop research questions and meet with faculty mentors.
Year 2
Year 2 is devoted to additional clinical experience in these areas as well as 8 months of dedicated research rotations.
Year 3
Year 3 is focused on both clinical and research with experiences individualized to the specific fellow needs to prepare for future endeavors.
Your Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Faculty
Gene Burkett, MD
Professor Emeritus, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Cristina Colon, MD
Assistant Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Lunthita Duthely, EdD
Research Assistant Professor, Reproductive Sciences
Arumugam Jayakumar, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Reproductive Sciences
Chima Ndubizu, MD
Assistant Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Michael J. Paidas, MD
Professor and Chair, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
JoNell Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN
Chief of Women’s HIV Services and Professor, Reproductive Sciences
Vice Chair, Reproductive Sciences
Alfredo Rodriguez, MD
Assistant Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rodrigo Ruano, MD, PhD
Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Division Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Anna Sfakianaki, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program