Our robust service delivers approximately 2800 babies a year. We service several counties with our high-risk offices and level 3 NICU. The fellow can expect to be exposed to and feel comfortable with vaginal deliveries, operative vaginal deliveries, cesarean sections, tubal ligations as well as managing diabetes, preterm labor, preeclampsia, chronic hypertension, multiple gestations, placentation abnormalities, thyroid disease and many other medical problems complicating pregnancy.
Requirements
- Successful completion of Family Medicine Residency with three letters of recommendations
- CV and Cover Letter
- Completion of 80 vaginal deliveries prior to finishing residency
- Assisted on 10 cesarean sections
- Completion of 10 circumcisions
Goals
The goals of the program are to:
- Learn and develop skills in advanced obstetrics, including surgical skills, while caring for the patients of the OB/GYN Faculty Service.
- Develop teaching skills and experience in obstetrical care applicable to Family Medicine residents and students.
To these ends, the Junior Faculty member has an active role in all aspects of the OB/GYN faculty program, including supervision of residents and students in both inpatient and ambulatory settings.
Responsibilities:
- Manage team of residents and students on labor and delivery shifts
- Evaluate and treat patients in clinics, approximately 10-12 per half-day
- Prepare and present didactic teaching sessions
- Participate in rounds
- Manage labor and delivery or maternity assessment unit on a mix of day, night, and weekend shifts
Focus Areas
Our clinical sites include:
Procedures:
- Vaginal Deliveries—approximately 200
- Cesarean Section—150+
- Operative Deliveries—approximately 10-15
- Postpartum Tubal Ligation—approximately 30
- D & C / D & E—approximately 30
- Circumcision 40-50
Faculty
The obstetric rotations are coordinated by a team of maternity care providers that includes obstetricians, family physicians (FM-OBs), and certified nurse midwives. This team approach emphasizes all aspects of obstetrics. The Women's & Children's Center at Moses Cone Hospital has a state-of-the-art ultrasound suite providing 4-D imaging and perinatology consulting services.
Mateo Eckstat, MD, MPH
Dr. Eckstat is originally from Altoona, IA. He graduated from Northwestern University with a combined MD and MPH in 2016. He completed family medicine residency at Boston Medical Center in 2019. He then completed his FM-OB fellowship at Cone Health in 2020, and became the Fellowship Director in 2024.
Dr. Eckstat is a board-certified Family Medicine doctor, and he is the sixth member of his family to go into that specialty. He is bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. He is passionate about caring for the underserved population, particularly immigrants, those suffering opioid use disorder or anyone who has faced discrimination or barriers to accessing care.
Paula A. Duncan, MD, FACOG, MSCP
Dr. Duncan was born and raised in the great state of Ohio. She went to Northeast Ohio Medical Universities and as class president she assumed responsibilities as chief executive on the party planning committee.
After a period of time in Pittsburgh, which included her residency at Magee Women’s Hospital of UPMC and many long hours sitting in cloudy Pittsburgh traffic, Dr. Duncan is glad to now live in sunny Greensboro. She lives with her husband and two darling daughters. Dr. Duncan is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and is one of the assistant fellowship directors alongside Jamilla Walker, CNM. She is passionate about teaching, evidence-based medicine, process improvement and minimally invasive surgery. And she loves running, reading, fixing things, and Taco Mama.
Fran Cresenzo-Dishmon, DNP, CNM (she/her)
Fran began her nursing career in 1992, earning her ADN from Rockingham Community College and a BSN from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After 10 years of nursing, she became a Certified Nurse-Midwife, earning her Masters in Midwifery from Thomas Jefferson University. Although she spent nearly 20 years insisting she would never go back to school, she eventually caved and completed her DNP at UNC-G in 2019. Fran’s greatest professional joy is helping bring babies earthside and guiding families through one of life’s biggest moments. She is equally passionate about teaching and loves sharing the practical tricks of the trade she has collected over the years with the next generation of baby catchers. Outside of work, Fran enjoys life with her husband, four lovely children, a five-foot-long ball python named Aurora Borealis, and one perfect granddaughter.
Salary & Benefits
The fellow receives a salary of $68,250 (13-month contract). Benefits include 22 days of sick, personal, holiday and vacation time, 5 days for CME, $1500 of CME funds and occurrence malpractice coverage.
How to Apply
The window to take applications for the class of '26-27 is now closed. Applications for the class of '27-28 will open on July 1, 2026.
Our interviews will take place the week of September 14-18, 2026. As we are not an ACGME accredited fellowship, we cannot sponsor J1 visas.
When applications are open, a link will appear here.
Materials we require for the application:
Interview Process
The Cone Health Fellowship has joined a group of 39 programs across the country in creating the Family Medicine Obstetrics Fellowship Directors Association (FMOB-FDA). One of the top priorities of the FMOB-FDA has been to reform the fellowship recruitment process. The prior process pushed fellowship programs to interview and offer spots earlier and earlier each year, and pressures candidates to accept offers before they can complete the interview process or fully consider their options.
Therefore, the FMOB-FDA affiliated program directors have agreed for the 2026 application cycle to the following format:
- July 1, 2026: Application opening date
- On or before interview day, we will require applicants to sign a statement agreeing to hold no more than 1 fellowship offer for more than 72 hours (after initial offer period) and to notify all programs at which they have interviewed when they accept a position elsewhere
- September 30, 2026: All programs will have finished interviews
- October 1, 2026: Programs will make initial offers to applicants
- October 12, 2026: Date by which applicants will be required to respond to initial offers. (Spots will be held for applicants until this date)
- After October 12, 2026, offers for unfilled positions will be sent on a rolling basis, and applicants will have 72 hours to respond before the spot is offered to another applicant.
- Please note there are no restrictions against offering spots to applicants earlier in the recruitment process, or against filling a spot earlier than these dates if an applicant accepts the offer.
Our goal is that candidates will be able to choose their preferred program and thus we will all matriculate fellows who truly wish to train at our program.
Job Expectations
Download the job expectations document for the Family Medicine Junior OB/GYN Faculty Position.
Download the current template for the fellows. It is currently a recurring 4-week schedule. This is subject to change annually based on prior fellow feedback.
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