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The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill offers a 1-year ACGME accredited fellowship in obstetric anesthesiology (currently 1 fellow/year). The program is administered at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Medical Center in the Women’s Hospital, with >4000 deliveries a year. We are a Level 4 Maternal Care Center with a level 4 NICU and have been designated a Center of Excellence by the Society for Obstetric Anesthesiology and Perinatology (SOAP).

 
Core fellowship faculty consists of 6 obstetric anesthesiologists. The fellowship curriculum is designed to graduate consultants in obstetric anesthesiology, who may be successful in academic or private practice settings depending on the fellow’s professional goals.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Obstetric Anesthesia Fellows:

Academic Year-Fellow-Current Affiliation

2024-25   Jen Tripi, MD
2023-24 – Erin Dengler, MD – ´óÏó´«Ã½ Rex Hospital
2022-23 – Courtney Hood, MD – Brooke Army Medical Center
2021-22 – Michael Hart, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020-21 – Justin Swengel, MD – Tennova Healthcare
2019-20 – Jeremy Gue, MD – Piedmont Triad Anesthesia
2018-19 – Lacey Straube, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017-18 – Kristin Fardelmann, MD – Yale University
2016-17 – Amy Penwarden, MD – American Anesthesiology
2015-16 – Sreenath Vellanki, MD – Medstar Health
2014-15 – Ben Redmon, MD – Duke Anesthesiology
2013-14 – Christopher Gratian, MD – Duke Anesthesiology

OB Anesthesia Fellowship Program Director: Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Ben Cobb, MD
For more info on ´óÏó´«Ã½’s Obstetric Anesthesiology fellowship program, contact program coordinator Shannon Wolfgang.

* ACGME Accreditation 2016