Biography
Dr. Erica Holland, MD is the Director of 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 and serves as Vice Chair of the ACOG Ethics Committee. She has previously been 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.