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.
Jamilla Walker, MSN, CNM, IBCLC (she/her)
Jamilla Walker began her collegiate education with an undergraduate degree in African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then obtained her nursing degree from Kettering College. As she worked as a nurse and ran a large doula collaborative, she became an internationally board-certified lactation consultant and completed midwifery training at Frontier Nursing University.
Jamilla makes up the midwifery portion of our fellowship director trio, bringing her 18 years of birth attendance to ensure the fellows are experienced facilitators of vaginal birth. She is passionate about reproductive justice, inclusive care and the elimination of racial infant and maternal health disparities.
Paula A. Duncan, MD (she/her)
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.
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.
