Our mission:

• To provide the highest caliber health care and patient services available to women in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina
• To serve the community through advanced biomedical research and outreach educational programs benefiting our women patients
• To educate medical students, residents, fellows, and community faculty on issues regarding all aspects of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health, and preventive health care measures

The following services are offered by the EVMS Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology:

Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

The Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine provides obstetric consultation and care limited to high-risk pregnancies. Services provided by the division include ultrasound for fetal diagnosis and therapy, genetic counseling and diagnosis, and antepartum fetal management. Obstetric care is available for pregnancies complicated by diabetes, hypertension, cardiac disease, and other disorders. The division also staffs the region's maternal transport service at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

The Center for Advanced Fetal Therapy

The Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetics Program, staffed by certified genetic counselors, provides a wide array of services, including cancer risk assessment, counseling for preimplantation genetic diagnosis, chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling, DNA enzyme analysis, and umbilical cord stem cell collection.

Specialized ultrasound technologies and certified ultrasonographers provide high-tech ultrasound imaging for prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformations (defects), and complex gynecologic pathology.

Diabetes in Pregnancy Program

The Diabetes in Pregnancy Program provides a unique multidisciplinary approach to the obstetrical and medical care of women with diabetes. Certified diabetes educators (available 24 hours a day) and a perinatal dietitian offering nutritional counseling have extensive experience in caring for pregnant women. The program’s goal is to ensure that women with diabetes have healthy pregnancy outcomes for both mother and child.

Nutritional Counseling

Professional perinatal dietitians offer nutritional counseling that provides individualized dietary management when clinically indicated.

HIV in Pregnancy Program

The HIV in Pregnancy Program utilizes the latest therapies for HIV in the antepartum and intrapartum period. Since the inception of this multidisciplinary and unique program in 1992, the perinatal transmission rate (from mother to baby) of HIV in the Hampton Roads region has dropped dramatically from 50 percent (one of the highest in the nation) to 0 percent in 2000 (nationally reported average 2-5 percent).

Antepartum Fetal Management

Antepartum Fetal Management for high-risk pregnancies is provided at several fetal diagnostic units. These are located in close proximity to labor and delivery suites and provide a wide array of tests including nonstress tests, contraction stress tests, and biophysical profiles.

Maternal Transport Program

The Maternal Transport Program, one of the busiest on the East Coast, provides unsurpassed care to high-risk pregnant women to approximately 600 women annually who are transported to our tertiary care centers via ambulance or helicopter from the southeastern Virginia, eastern shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina regions. Our team provides round-the-clock coverage for these obstetrical emergencies.

Teenage Pregnancy Program

The Teenage Pregnancy Program specializes in the needs of the pregnant adolescent.

Perinatal Research Program

The MFM Perinatal Research Program currently has a number of ongoing prospective clinical trials in a wide variety of clinical areas of research, including perinatal ultrasound, genetics, infectious disease in pregnancy and peripartum, and diabetes in pregnancy.

Division of Reproductive Medicine

The Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine is world renowned for its success in treating all types of endocrine and fertility problems. Services provided by the Institute include endocrine and infertility and endocrine evaluation, ovulation induction, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and sperm and pre-embryo cryopreservation.

Specialized reproductive surgery is available with experience in laser surgery, microsurgery, hysteroscopy (office and inpatient), as well as treatment for congenital anomalies and endometriosis. Consultation services are available for pelvic pain, heavy menstrual flow, and other gynecologic problems.

Other advanced reproductive services provided include gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT), zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT), pre-embryo cryopreservation and a variety of micromanipulative procedures to assist fertilization, such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and to assist implantation, such as assisted hatching. In addition, the division includes a very successful donor egg program and offers pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.