Patient Services: Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

The division offers a unique and wide range of expertise and services in high-risk obstetrics (perinatology):

• The Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetics Program staffed by several board-certified genetic counselors. The program 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 and enzyme analysis, and umbilical cord stem cell collection.
   
• Specialized ultrasound technologies and certified ultrasonographers provide state-of-the-art ultrasound imaging for prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformations (defects), complex gynecologic pathology, and other problems.
   
• The Diabetes in Pregnancy Program provides a unique multidisciplinary approach to the obstetrical and medical care for women with diabetes. The health care team is comprised of physicians with special training in caring for high-risk pregnancies, a certified perinatal dietitian and several certified diabetes educators who are also experienced perinatal nurses.
   
• Individualized nutritional counseling by a certified perinatal dietitian is available when clinically indicated.
   
• The HIV in Pregnancy Program is dedicated to the care of pregnant women who are HIV-positive. Patients referred to the program are eligible to participate in protocols utilizing the newest therapies for HIV in the antepartum and intrapartum periods.
   
• The Teenage Pregnancy Program specializes in the needs of the adolescent who is pregnant.
   
• 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 surveillance tests including nonstress tests, contraction stress tests, and biophysical profiles.
   
• The Maternal Transport Program provides the most advanced inpatient and supportive care to patients who are transported to tertiary care centers via ambulance or helicopter from the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina regions.
   
• The MFM Perinatal Research Program currently has more than nine ongoing prospective clinical trials in a wide variety of clinical areas of research including perinatal ultrasound, genetics, infectious disease, and diabetes in pregnancy.

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