Melinda Baldwin McFarland, MD
Dr. Melinda McFarland attended medical school right here in the University of Texas Health Science Center, where she completed her dual fellowships in maternal-fetal medicine and clinical genetics. In 2000, she established Perinatal and Fertility Specialists of San Antonio as one of its founding doctors, and since then, Dr. McFarland has dedicated her career to establishing trust with her patients and referring doctors, working with them to provide healthy, happy pregnancies to patients across the San Antonio and New Braunfels area. Her reputation has extended its reach so far that patients are referred to Dr. McFarland from all over south Texas, including McAllen, Laredo, and Corpus Christi, for the specialized care she provides. She has attending privileges in the Baptist health system, the Methodist health system, and Christus Santa Rosa medical center to better serve the needs of her patients and effectively monitor them throughout every step of their pregnancy.
Ashley Parker, MD
Dr. Ashley Parker attended medical school right here at the University of Texas Health Science Center, where she also completed her fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine. She joined our practice in 2014 after establishing herself as a distinguished researcher and practitioner; during her fellowship, Dr. Parker received the Giorgio Pardi Foundation research grant for her work on the epigenetics of obesity during pregnancy. Since her arrival on our team, Dr. Parker has enthusiastically joined us in providing successful outcomes to patients in the San Antonio area and across south Texas. She, too, has attending privileges in the Baptist health system and the Methodist health system to fully accommodate the needs of her patients and provide care to them through every stage of their pregnancy.
John Hardy, MD
Dr. John Hardy attended medical school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas. He completed his residency in OB/GYN at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where he won the William Nahhas Surgical Excellence award. He went on to fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. After fellowship he served at San Antonio Military Medical center as Chief of MFM and Medical Director of Labor and Delivery.
Ometeotl Acosta, MD
Dr. Acosta received his undergraduate degree in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend Indiana. Dr. Acosta then received his medical training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where he was a Lozano-Long Presidential Scholar and received his medical degree in 2007. He completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2011 and a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine in 2014 and is double board certified.
Tania Roman, MD
Dr. Roman received her undergraduate degree in Human Biology and Spanish Literature from Stanford University in 2008. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center Lozano-Long School of Medicine, and also completed a Master’s in Public Health at that time. Then she went on to complete her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training in Houston, her hometown. She returned to San Antonio and completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine in 2020 at the UT Health Science Center.
Gian Diaz Rodriguez, MD
Dr. Diaz Rodriguez received his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology from the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. He attended medical school at Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine in 2015. Then he went on to complete his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training in Houston at Baylor College of Medicine in 2019. He then went to Illinois and completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine in 2022 at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
Veronica Gonzalez Brown, MD
Dr. Gonzalez Brown received her undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry from St Mary’s University in San Antonio. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and was awarded the Health Professions Scholarship and was commissioned in the US Air Force. She went on to complete her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training at Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. She completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine in 2020 at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She served as the Department Chair of Gynecologic Surgery and Obstetrics at Brooke Army Medical Center and Chief of the Medical Staff at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center prior to joining our practice. Dr. Gonzalez Brown is a fervent leader in women’s healthcare with strong passion for advancing the diversity and equity in treatment and delivery of patient care.
