Chuka Boris Jenkins, MD, FACOG

The short version

Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at MedStar Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, from 2001 to 2026. More than thirty peer-reviewed publications and presentations in the field's leading journals. Founder of Inheren Medical Strategies, a telehealth-only consultative practice.

The longer version

I trained at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed my Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at Georgetown. My early academic work focused on first-trimester screening for preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction, and preterm birth — including first-trimester risk factors for preeclampsia in women initiating aspirin, and first-trimester angiogenic and placental markers with the Baschat group. That is the same framework the Fetal Medicine Foundation and MFM units around the world now use.

Years of clinical practice, hundreds of high-risk pregnancies, and a lot of patients who deserved better explanations than the system had time to give them. Inheren is the practice I built to give those explanations. It is not a hospital, not a clinic, and not a wellness brand. It is a structured, disciplined, telehealth-delivered consultation service for women whose pregnancies revealed something — and who deserve to understand what.

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy problem — but not only a pregnancy problem. It is the first page of a much longer story.

The conviction that drives the practice

In 2020 the American Heart Association formally listed adverse pregnancy outcomes — preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, growth restriction, gestational diabetes, preterm birth — as risk-enhancing factors for cardiovascular disease. I had been teaching that idea in Grand Rounds since 2014, years before that guideline appeared. The biology was always there. The clinical infrastructure to act on it was not. Inheren is that infrastructure: one physician with more than two decades of pattern recognition, a telehealth platform that lets the consultation happen wherever you are, a targeted lab strategy, and a written plan you keep.

What I am, and what I am not

I am a clinician. I will tell you what the evidence says and what it does not say. I will not tell you that gluten elimination reverses Hashimoto's. I will not put every patient on aspirin and progesterone and call it a recurrent-loss program. I will not order forty-seven biomarkers and let you sort it out. The discipline of saying "this we know, this we don't, this is plausible but not proven" is the practice.

I am not your OB and not your cardiologist. I do not replace them; I work alongside them. Most of my patients leave with a written summary they can hand directly to their primary care physician or their next obstetrician — that handoff is part of the work.

Where I practice

Telehealth, exclusively. Maryland medical license (D0047289), and qualified through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC) — an expedited pathway to licensure in member states. Self-pay only; FSA/HSA eligible.