Maternal and Fetal Medicine Specialist Joins Spectrum Health Medical Group

Vivian Carolina Romero, MD, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. Dr. Romero’s special interests include high-risk pregnancies, multiple gestation, prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy, fetal growth disorders, and preconception counseling.

Dr. Romero, who is fluent in Spanish, earned her medical degree from University of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Wayne State University in Detroit and a fellowship in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology.

Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan offering a full continuum of care through the Spectrum Health Hospital Group, which is comprised of nine hospitals including Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, a state of the art children’s hospital that opened in January 2011, and 190 service sites; the Spectrum Health Medical Group and West Michigan Heart, physician groups totaling more than 600 providers; and Priority Health, a health plan with 600,000 members. Spectrum Health is West Michigan’s largest employer with more than 18,000 employees. The organization provided $176.5 million in community benefit during its 2011 fiscal year.