For Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialists

MFM Built In, Not Added On.

Most MFM specialists spend their careers in one of three roles: university systems slowed by bureaucracy, radiology-only scan reading, or consult services with limited influence. At Hera, MFM is the foundation of care, not a referral destination. You’ll shape protocols, lead care for complex patients across the network, and have the impact on women and families who need you the most.

24.7%

Preterm birth reduction driven by MFM protocol

3,474

Births across the network all shaped by MFM protocol

SMFM

Late breaking study presented at the 2025 annual meeting

Nevada

MFM leads the build in supporting maternal deserts
Why MFM Physicians Choose Hera

You Trained to Lead Complex Care. Find a Model Built Around Your Expertise.

University MFM buries your impact in bureaucracy. Radiology-only roles reduce you to reading scans. Community consult models treat MFM as a cost center, not a driver of outcomes. Hera puts your expertise to work where it matters most: leading care, shaping protocols, and changing outcomes

Embedded from day one

Daily huddles with OB teams, protocol ownership, and direct involvement in every complex patient, not just the referrals that make it to you

Every complex case is yours to influence

3,474 births across the network means your protocols, your simulation drills, and your decisions touch every high-risk pregnancy, not just the consults that get routed to you

A real research pipeline with publication support

Structured data warehouse, outcomes tracking, and active SMFM presence; your work gets submitted and presented

Protocols that travel across the network

What you build at one site becomes the standard across all Hera practices; your guidelines have network reach

Physician governance, not administrative hierarchy

Career advancement tied to grant cycles and departmental hierarchy, not patient outcomes

Autonomy to run your practice as an independent clinic

Schedules set at the practice level, patient care over patient quotas

Full-spectrum MFM expertise on the patient’s care team

You read the scan, sit in the huddle, write the protocol, and follow the patient through delivery. The point of MFM training is the whole patient, not the image
A Better Way to Practice MFM

More than Benefits. A Better Model.

These aren’t perks; they’re structural advantages that make Hera the highest impact place for MFM specialists to practice.
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Full OB/MFM Integration

You don’t wait for referrals. You’re embedded in the OB practice, in the building, in the huddles, in the protocols. MFM is the core of how Hera delivers care, not an add-on service line.
  • Only fully integrated OB/MFM model in Nevada
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Outcomes Data You Can Actually Publish

Hera’s data warehouse captures structured outcome data across every birth, every protocol, every complication. It’s designed for research not just billing.
  • SMFM 2025 late-breaking study pregnancy risk assessment
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Simulation Training You Lead

Hera’s maternal-fetal medicine simulation program is MFM designed and MFM led. You train the OBs and L&D nursing teams together. Your protocols become their reflexes before a crisis happens.
  • 16-min emergency c-section, HELLP + abruption, simulation-trained team
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National Protocol Influence

What you develop doesn’t stay at one site. Hera’s protocol engine deploys validated MFM guidelines across the entire network. As Hera expands nationally, your clinical decisions are scaled with it.
  • Protocols validated by network-wide outcomes data, not single-site
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MFM Clinical Council You Govern

Hera’s physician governance includes a dedicated MFM council. You set standards, approve protocols, and shape how the specialty is practiced across the entire network. This isn’t advisory, it has authority.
  • Former SMFM leadership on the founding physician team
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Support of Maternal Deserts in NV

Hera supports maternal deserts in Nevada. MFM specialists joining now help design the care model; you’re not inheriting someone else’s system, you’re building yours.
  • Ongoing expansion of MFM roles across NV in 2026
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION

This is What Research Outside the University Looks like Without Bureaucracy

You don’t need to be at a university to publish. Hera’s data infrastructure and SMFM presence make active research possible without the grant cycles, department politics, or teaching load that comes with university medicine.

Structured data from day one

Every birth, complication, and protocol outcome is captured in a research-ready warehouse, no retrospective chart review

Active SMFM presence and submission support

Hera has presented late-breaking research at SMFM. A proven abstract to presentation process exists.

Network-scale sample size

Multi-site data across thousands of births gives you statistical power that single-practice research can never reach

Peer review built into the culture

Protocol changes require evidence review by the MFM council; your research goes through a rigorous internal process before it reaches journals
From Dr. Brian Iriye – SMFM Lifetime Achievement Award
“The thing that drew me to Hera wasn’t a title or a department, it was a platform where what I know about high-risk pregnancy could actually reach every OB we work with, not just the fellows I trained.”
Dr. Brian Iriye, MD, MFM Specialist, High Risk Pregnancy Center

Recent Publications & Presentations

PRESENTED
SMFM 2025

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Methodology

Late-breaking research presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting.

SMFM 2025

February 2025

PUBLISHED
24.7%

Reduction in Preterm Births

Integrated care model demonstrated significant improvements in pregnancy outcomes.

World Prematurity Day

November 2025

CLINICAL IMPACT
15%

Reduction in Infant Mortality

Nevada 2021–2023 cohort demonstrated improved outcomes compared with national trends.

Cohort Nevada

2021–2023

IN PROGRESS
HELLP Syndrome

Emergency Response Simulation Protocol

Evaluating simulation-based training to improve emergency recognition and response.

Submission Planned

2026

Clinical Community

The Best MFM Peers You’ve Had Since Fellowship

Hera’s physician governance structure means you’re not practicing in isolation. The MFM council gives you regular, structured contact with the most experienced maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the network and authority to shape how the specialty is practiced.

Physician Governance Structure

National MFM clinical council

Sets protocol standards, approves research submissions, and guides the MFM care model across all Hera markets

Local practice councils

Site-level physician leadership with real authority over scheduling, staffing, and local protocol adaptation

Quarterly outcomes review

Network-wide data reviewed by physician councils; protocol changes driven by evidence, not administrative preference
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SMFM Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Brian Iriye

The highest recognition in maternal-fetal medicine awarded to Hera’s own. Reserved for physicians who have profoundly advanced MFM through research, patient care, and education. Dr. Iriye is the only recipient in recent history practicing outside a university.
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I left my university position because I wanted to see my protocols actually used at scale, not sit in a filing cabinet. At Hera, the protocol I wrote for preterm labor screening is now running across four practices. That’s what impact feels like.

MFM Specialist — High Risk Pregnancy Center

Joined from university medicine, 2023
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The simulation program changed how I think about team training. I designed the HELLP scenario we run every quarter. When the real thing happened, the nursing team didn’t hesitate, they’d already done it.

MFM Specialist — Reno location

High Risk Pregnancy Center
Open Positions

Where We’re Growing Now

Hera is growing across our Nevada and Arizona footprint. If you want to join a team of experts and deliver care for meaningful cases in a top-tier practice environment, these roles are for you.

Role Location Status
OB/GYN – Full-time, employed
Complete Care ObGyn
Las Vegas, NV Actively hiring
Maternal – fetal medicine specialist
High Risk Pregnancy Center
Reno, NV Actively hiring
OB hospitalist – overnight & weekend coverage
Hera Network Hospital Partners
Henderson, NV Actively hiring
OB/GYN – expansion market (2026)
Hera Centers of Excellence
New Markets Upcoming

Not seeing the right fit? Send us your CV, we’re always looking for exceptional physicians.
THE PRACTICE MODEL

What Your Day Looks like at Hera

Meaningful cases. Real collaboration. Zero administrative burden.

100%

Payer management handled

Credentialing, prior auths, and contract negotiations managed by Hera’s central team

3-4

OB sites per MFM physician

Structured coverage model; embedded collaboration without unsustainable call burden

Quarterly

MFM council meetings

Protocol review, outcomes data, research submissions and structured time for work that matters

24/7

OB hospitalist backup

Simulation trained hospitalist coverage means you’re not carrying the on-call burden alone

Nevada

Growing openings in 2026

Evolving geography means new MFM roles; choose your NV market and help design the care model

Malpractice

Fully covered

Tail coverage included, Hera handles it so you don’t carry it into your next role

Ready to Practice MFM at Its Highest Level?

Talk directly with Dr. Brian Iriye or another Hera MFM specialist.
Have a real conversation about what this role is like from the inside.
Questions? Contact Lori Stephenson · lstephenson@hera-health.com