Erica Holland, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Erica Holland, MD is a sub-specialist in the Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine. She received her BA from Cornell University and her MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed a Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Boston University/Boston Medical Center, a Fellowship in Maternal and Fetal Medicine from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a Fellowship in Bioethics from the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School.

She is an attending physician with the multidisciplinary program Project RESPECT, caring for patients with substance use disorder affecting pregnancy and the postpartum period. Her research interests include the role of urine drug testing in pregnancy, the management of opioid use disorder during pregnancy, pain management during and after childbirth, and ethical issues surrounding the care of pregnant individuals.

Dr. Holland is a member of the Boston Medical Center Ethics Committee as well as the ACOG Ethics Committee. She is currently funded by the Greenwall Foundation to study the effects of an ethics-informed policy of urine drug testing on patients and providers. She has been an invited speaker regionally and nationally on the topic of urine drug testing in pregnancy. She aims to apply bioethics theory to dilemmas of clinical obstetrics.

Publications

  • Published 4/22/2025

    Wong ML, Holland E, White KO, Woodhams E. Amniotic fluid embolism in late second trimester abortion: a case report. Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care. 2025 Jun; 30(3):164-165. PMID: 40261265.

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  • Published 3/1/2025

    Holland E, Joseph NT, Salas-Wright CP, Hacker MR, Hawkins SS. Racial and ethnic differences in self-reported substance use and screening during prenatal care. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2025 May; 7(5):101660. PMID: 40032180.

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  • Published 8/16/2024

    Brook K, Achu-Lopes RA, Richards JL, Holland E, Langlois WO. In Response. Anesth Analg. 2024 Sep 01; 139(3):e28-e29. PMID: 39151140.

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  • Published 12/15/2023

    Holland E, Richards JL, Langlois WO, Zhu J, Achu-Lopes RA, Brook K. Ethical and Medicolegal Issues: When Obstetric Patients Who Refuse Blood Products Change Their Minds. Anesth Analg. 2024 Jan 01; 138(1):89-95. PMID: 38100802.

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  • Published 5/19/2023

    Holland E, Gibbs L, Spence NZ, Young M, Werler MM, Guang Z, Saia K, Bateman BT, Achu R, Wachman EM. A comparison of postpartum opioid consumption and opioid discharge prescriptions among opioid-naïve patients and those with opioid use disorder. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 Aug; 5(8):101025. PMID: 37211090.

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Education

  • University of Massachusetts Worcester, MD
  • Cornell University, BA

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