PHOENIX – Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix (BUMCP) has received approval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to establish a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at BUMCP, the first-ever fellowship if its kind in Greater Phoenix. 

With the announcement of the fellowship, BUMCP is also introducing its first fellow of the 2017 MFM Fellowship, Dr. Michael Leovic, who joins the BUMCP residency after attending medical school at Ohio State. While the University of Arizona in Tucson has an existing MFM fellowship, this is the first MFM fellowship in Phoenix. The BUMCP fellowship is under The University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. 

“After years of hard work and perseverance by many other people who came before me, we are finally able to celebrate such a monumental milestone for our department,” notes Kevin Huls, MD, maternal fetal medicine fellowship director at BUMCP. “This is a huge accomplishment and we are proud to move forward with this very special ACGME recognition.”

The ACGME accredits residency and fellowship programs, confers recognition on additional program formats or components and dedicates resources to initiatives addressing areas of import in graduate medical education. 

Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix is a large teaching hospital that has provided medical care to Arizona and the Southwest since 1911. It is part of Banner – University Medicine. The hospital specializes in heart care, cancer care, high-risk obstetrics, neurosciences and stroke care, organ transplants and Emergency care, including a Level 1 trauma center. Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix is part of Banner Health, a nonprofit health care system with 29 hospitals in seven states. The institution, which has trained thousands of doctors over decades as a teaching hospital with Graduate Medical Education programs, is now the academic medical center for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.