Your High-Risk Obstetrician

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Phone: (650) 498-4069,
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Fax: (650) 498-2583
Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pmAll high-risk obstetrics patients are cared for by an attending maternal-fetal medicine specialist.
 
Maternal-Fetal medicine specialists are obstetrician/gynecologists (OB/GYNs) who have completed a three-year fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine to care for women with high-risk pregnancies. They are sometimes referred to as “MFMs” or perinatologists.
 
Part of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital mission as a teaching hospital is to train health care providers. In addition to seeing your high-risk obstetrician during your clinic visits, you may also meet:

• Maternal-Fetal medicine fellows - Licensed physicians who have completed four years of OB/GYN residency. They are doing a three year fellowship to specialize in maternal-fetal medicine.
  
  
• OB/GYN residents - Licensed physicians who work closely with our attending physicians to continue their medical training in obstetrics and gynecology. After completing their four years of residency, they are certified as OB/GYN generalists.
  
  
• Medical students – Students studying to become doctors.
  
  
• Nursing students – Students studying to become nurses.

Your high-risk obstetrician always has overall responsibility for your care and supervises the fellows, residents and students.
 
Please note that we cannot honor requests to exclude male or female physicians from seeing you during your clinic visits. 

 

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