Dr. Mauricio Herrera M Specialist Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Biography

Dr. Mauricio Herrera is an obstetrician gynecologist with a specialty and fellow in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Fetal Surgery and Therapy, Fetal Cardiology and Fetal Neurology. He is the Director of the Maternal Fetal Department at the Colsanitas Clinic – since 2001. Actually Dr. Herrera is the director of the International Center of Fetal Surgery and therapy is a referrer center for validated fetal surgeries and therapies, he is in charge of more than 120 cases of fetal therapies and surgeries each year with patients from different regions from Colombia and also from other countries in Latin America. He is the creator of the Fetal Surgery and Therapy program in UAE, that was created in Burjeel Medical City – Burjeel Holdings, since 2023, doing the first spina bifida in Utero repair and more than 17 procedures of fetal surgery and therapy. Actually is the President of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Foundation. He dedicates all the time for the Maternal Fetal Medicine, Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal therapy and surgery.Dr. Herrera started his work in Maternal Fetal Medicine and Prenatal Diagnosis in 2000, when he created the Maternal Fetal Unit in Colsanitas Clinic. He also began the first recognized fellowship program in maternal fetal medicine in Colombia at the University Of Rosary School Of Medicine. He is presently the Director of the Fellowship Program in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Fetal Cardiology and Fetal Neurology in Sanitas University and Rosario University. As Director of fellowship program, he is responsible for research and education in the Maternal Fetal Unit and for all courses and online education offered by Sanitas University. Since 2006, Dr. Herrera had served as a member of the educational committee of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG). This responsibility involves his expertise in education in all countries in Latin America. He was member of the ISUOG Board from 2014 to 2019. He created the Fellows Program in fetal cardiology and neurology more than 1100 physicians have completed the training program. He is the creator and director of the advanced fetal medicine Internet network with an impact factor of 12.000 doctors registered around the world. His is leading and was the creator of the Latin American Center for Fetal Surgery and

Therapy, actually he is doing more than 120 fetal surgery each year and that include 17 procedures validated as fetal surgery for myelomeningocele, surgery in TWINS, fetal tumors, fetal shunts, EXIT, fetal tracheal occlusion and more. He is considered an opinion leader in the area of obstetrical and gynecological ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis, fetal ultrasound, fetal malformation screening and fetal therapy. In addition to publishing numerous articles and abstracts, he is a featured speaker in many meetings, courses and medical Congresses around the world and internationally and travels over 105,000 miles worldwide annually as part of his commitment to promote education in the field of ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis, prenatal biochemical screening, maternal fetal health and related technologies. Actually also he created the fetal medicine Lab, with the objective of new developments, devices and