Our Services

Maternal Fetal Medicine (High Risk Pregnancy)

Maternal Fetal Medicine provides special care and delivery when serious illness or increased pregnancy risk affect women and/or their unborn children. We can provide consultation, specific services, or care and delivery when combined maternal fetal medicine and intensive neonatal care, including immediate neonatal surgery, are necessary.

Did You Know?

• Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Penn State Women's Health has been providing maternal fetal resources throughout central Pennsylvania for more than 25 years
• We have more than 50 years combined practice experience as maternal-fetal medicine specialists certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• We are members of the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine, providing us with an ongoing network of the latest in diagnostic advances, practice protocols and new research for pregnancies with unusual or especially difficult clinical problems 
• Pre-pregnancy counseling for high-risk medical or obstetric conditions
• Genetic diagnostic services: counseling, chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, specialized laboratory diagnostics
• Targeted fetal ultrasound imaging
• Selected maternal surgical procedures including: umbilical cord blood sampling, intrauterine fetal transfusion, fetal thoracic and bladder catheter placement, active management of twin transfusion syndrome
• Shared care for pregnancies complicated by chronic maternal diseases including: Insulin dependent diabetes, hypertension, hyperthyroidism, auto-immune diseases, bleeding/clotting disorders
• Second opinion for complicated pregnancies

Maternal Fetal Medicine Team

• John T. Repke, M.D.
  Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  Preeclampsia, hypertension, preterm labor, prenatal diagnosis, medical complications of pregnancy
• Serdar H. Ural, M.D.
  Associate Professor, Director, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Medical Director of Labor and Delivery
  Prenatal diagnosis, obstetrical ultrasound, perinatal consultation, Amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling
• Anthony Ambrose, M.D.
  Associate Professor
  Genetic diagnoses, hypertension, diabetes, auto-immune diseases
• John J. Botti, M.D.
  Professor, Director of Perinatal Outreach
  Exercise during pregnancy, maternal medical diseases & perinatal infections
• Wendy L. Glatfelter, M.S.
  Genetic Counselor
• Patricia Myers, RN
• Pam Macrina, RN
• Judy Grubb
  Division Secretary

Locations

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
3 North Prenatal Testing Unit
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033 
Clinic Hours: 9:30 am to 4:00pm daily, except Thursday is 9:30am to 12 noon.
Scheduling and referrals: (717) 531-7373
Office: (717) 531-8142        
Fax:  (717) 531-0117