Fibroid Center

Welcome to the Fibroid Center

The Fibroid Center at Boston Medical Center will provide exceptional care to patients with uterine fibroids through a multidisciplinary, patient-centered, and evidence-based approach.

  • 70–80 percent of people with uteruses will develop uterine fibroids by age 50, of which 25–50 percent will develop symptoms.
  • Black women experience symptoms and diagnosis at an earlier age and larger, more numerous fibroids.

If you are seeking treatment for the first time here at BMC, please call the Central Registration Department at 617.638.6060. If you are a current BMC patient looking to set up a referral with a uterine fibroid specialist, please reach out to one of our referral coordinators:

  • Latoya:
    • Phone: 617.414.4814
    • Office schedule: Mon–Fri from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  ET
  • Juna:
    • Phone: 617.414.5375
    • Office schedule: Mon–Fri from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  ET

If you have any other questions about uterine fibroids and resources at the Fibroid Center, connect with us by email at fibroidcenter@bmc.org.

Fibroid Management Tool

If you have been diagnosed with uterine fibroids, this interactive tool can help you learn more about treatment options. Always talk to your doctor before starting a new treatment.

Centering Patients with Fibroids

We adapted the CenteringPregnancy group education program developed by the Centering Healthcare Institute to provide education, empowerment, and peer community to patients with fibroids here at BMC. Our eight-week Centering Patients with Fibroids (CPWF) program discusses topics including fibroid symptoms, treatment options, environmental factors, mental health, and patient advocacy.

In partnership with our colleagues at Emory University/Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and leaders at fibroid nonprofit The White Dress Project, we completed 7 cohorts of CPWF here at BMC and 6 cohorts at Emory University between 2022 and 2025. Part of a federally-funded research study supported by the Office on Women’s Health, these 13 program cohorts will provide us with the data to expand CPWF for many more patients in the years to come. Keep an eye on this website for updates on the future of CPWF at BMC!

For more information about the Centering Patients with Fibroids Research Study, please email Emma Forbes, program manager, at emma.forbes@bmc.org or call 857.574.9967. You can also email the team at fibroidcenter@bmc.org.

The Team

Our team is comprised of gynecologists, reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialists, interventional radiologists, patients, hematologists, residents, and student researchers, and a program management specialist. Though our team is currently leading patient-centered research related to uterine fibroids at BMC, other providers within the hospital's OBGYN department are also skilled and equipped to treat patients with fibroids.

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Emma Forbes, MPH
Program Management Specialist
emma.forbes@bmc.org

Kendra Lujan, M4, MPH
Research Assistant

Kenya Mathieu
Research Assistant

Lauren Hill
Research Assistant

Patient Resources

The Resilient Sisterhood Project Fibroid Resource Tool

The White Dress Project

Society for Women’s Health Research Uterine Fibroids Toolkit: a Patient Empowerment Guide

The Fibroid Foundation

Erica Marsh, MD // Uterine Fibroids Video Perspectives

The Toll of Uterine Fibroids on Black Women // NYT

Navigating My Pregnancy With Fibroids // NYT

Community Stakeholders

The White Dress Project

The Resilient Sisterhood Project

This project has been funded by the Forward for Health Equity Grant from Myovant Sciences and the Office of Women's Health, Department of Health and Human Services.