Eric P. Bergh, MD

Biography

Eric Bergh, MD, is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at McGovern Medical School (UTHealth). He hails from the East Coast and received his medical degree at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. He completed both a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. He subsequently completed a fetal intervention fellowship at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Dr. Bergh’s interests include operative fetoscopy, fetal transfusion and open fetal surgery. He has expertise training in fetal intervention for conditions including twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, fetal spina bifida and other fetoscopic-based and needle-guided in-utero procedures. He has performed more than 200 laser ablation procedures in the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Dr. Bergh serves on the medical staff of The Fetal Center at UTHealth Houston and the faculty of McGovern Medical School as an assistant professor in the division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He is actively involved in multiple research studies, including the development of novel techniques for fetoscopic membrane anchoring and the design and implementation of automated computer-based collection and analysis of long-term pediatric outcomes in children undergoing fetal surgery. In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Bergh’s interests also include a passion for computer programming and data science.