We are committed to providing the highest level of obstetric care, prenatal consultations and ultrasound services, medical education and training, and advancing the care of women and birthing people before, during and after pregnancy through outstanding clinical care and groundbreaking clinical and translational research.
Specialized programs include Prematurity Prevention, Reproductive Genetics, Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy, Perinatal Diabetes and Placenta Accreta care.
The Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) division provides diagnostic and consultative services focused on high-risk obstetrics at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Chester County Hospital, Princeton Medical Center, and Penn Medicine Cherry Hill. Division members are experienced physicians who are trained in sonography and fetal diagnostic imaging and assessment, as well as complex maternal medical issues. Our ultrasound units offer a full range of ultrasound services, including antepartum testing (e.g., non-stress tests, biophysical profiles), Down Syndrome and other genetic screening tests, medically indicated 3D ultrasound, fetal echocardiography, and ultrasound-guided procedures.
The division members are also skilled in the management of pregnancies complicated by fetal abnormalities, including growth disorders, inherited diseases including genetic and syndromic disorders, and structural malformations. Division members are affiliated with the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and provide the prenatal diagnosis and obstetric management for patients who need either fetal treatment or neonatal surgical management.
The MFM division at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania maintains a small practice that provides prenatal care for high-risk pregnancies including women with medical and obstetric complications, including maternal cardiac disease, organ transplants, cancer, and congenital malformations.
Division faculty are fully involved in the supervision and staffing of the Labor and Delivery unit, and a division member is either present on the labor floor or available 24 hours a day for assistance with the intrapartum management of high-risk pregnancies. MFM faculty staff the antepartum service.
Clinical and research interests of the MFM division encompass the entire field of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. The division is one of 13 sites in the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network and one of six March of Dimes Prematurity Research Centers.
Active Clinical Trials
For a complete listing of all active clinical trials, please visit: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinical Trials
Current Lines of Active Investigation in the MFM Research Program include:
- Prevention and treatment of hypertension in pregnancy and the impact on immediate and long-term maternal health
- Care delivery management in patients with diabetes
- Decreasing maternal morbidity and racial disparities through various interventions
- Remote fetal monitoring and the impact on racial disparities
- The impact of preeclampsia and the other adverse pregnancy outcomes on future cardiovascular health
- Vaginal microbiome and metabolome and the impact on preterm birth
- Placental extracellular vesicles and pregnancy outcomes
- Remote blood pressure monitoring
- Standardizing the management of induction of labor to decrease racial disparities in cesarean delivery rates
- Outpatient cervical ripening to decrease cesarean rates
- Placental imaging and prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
- Implementation and evaluation of a cardiovascular risk assessment algorithm for pregnancy and postpartum
Faculty
Lisa D. Levine, MD, MSCE
Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Health System
3400 Spruce Street, 2nd Floor Silverstein Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Jamie A. Bastek, MD, MSCE
Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Robert H. Debbs, DO, FACOG
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lorraine Dugoff, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Celeste P. Durnwald, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Kristin D. Gerson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Rebecca F. Hamm, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital
Adi Hirshberg, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Matthew K. Janssen, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Daphne Landau, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dominic A. Marchiano, MD, M.Ed
Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jennifer McCoy, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Samuel Parry, MD
Franklin Payne Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Beth Pineles, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hayley Solomon Quant, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nadav L. Schwartz, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Harish M. Sehdev, MD
Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Laura A. Smith, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
David J. Vettori, DO
Medical Director of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Inspira Division
Eileen Y. Wang, MD
Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology