Rodney K. Edwards, M.D., has been named professor and chief of the section of Maternal-Fetal Medicine within the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He has also been named director of Obstetric Services at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center. He is seeing patients in the OU Physicians Prenatal Diagnostic Center.
Maternal-Fetal Medicine physicians — also called perinatologists — are obstetrician-gynecologists who completed additional training in the diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care of complicated pregnancies. Edwards provides treatment (including delivery) for the full range of high-risk pregnancy diagnoses and performs detailed fetal ultrasound examinations. He has specific experience in performing transabdominal cerclage (for patients with cervical insufficiency) and invasive fetal procedures such as transfusions and shunts.
Edwards is board certified in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. He completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, where he also completed his residency and earned a master of science degree in clinical investigation. He earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
Edwards is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
OU Physicians maternal fetal medicine specialists see patients on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Campus. For an appointment with an OU Physicians maternal fetal medicine specialist, call (405) 271-5400.
With more than 660 doctors, OU Physicians is the state’s largest physician group. The practice encompasses almost every adult and child specialty. Many OU Physicians have expertise in the management of complex conditions that is unavailable anywhere else in the state, region or sometimes even the nation. Some have pioneered surgical procedures or innovations in patient care that are world firsts.
OU Physicians see patients in their offices at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City and at clinics in Edmond, Midwest City and other cities around Oklahoma. When hospitalization is necessary, they often admit patients to OU Medical Center. Many also care for their patients in other hospitals around the metro area. OU Physicians serve as faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and train the region’s future physicians.
