Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Rita Driggers, MD, FACOG
Johns Hopkins Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital
Dr. Rita Driggers is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Medical Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Why patients choose Dr. Driggers
Dr. Driggers completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Walter Reed in Bethesda and her maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins, followed by 14 years of Navy service — much of it at Walter Reed, where she served as Chief of Obstetrics and Director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division. She previously directed the MFM fellowship at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and serves as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Clinical focus
High-risk pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, and the medical and obstetric complications of pregnancy.
Profile last fact-checked July 17, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Driggers compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering maternal-fetal medicine
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name maternal-fetal medicine.
The only University of Tennessee Health Science Center graduate we list
1 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record studied at University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
We list 2 maternal & fetal medicine providers serving Bethesda.
1 of 2 we list at Johns Hopkins Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital
We cover 2 providers at Johns Hopkins Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Trained in the DC–Baltimore area
Completed residency locally, like 32% of the 87 doctors whose residency we record.
2nd longest since qualifying of our 5 maternal & fetal medicine providers
Qualified in 1995. The median for the 5 maternal & fetal medicine providers whose year we record is 1996.
Medical school: University of Tennessee Health Science Center — Memphis, TN, United States.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Driggers sits by experience
Dr. Driggers finished medical school in 1995, 31 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 46 finished earlier, 86 finished later, and 2 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–1994Dr. Driggers1995
1995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–20092010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 42 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 — Dr. Driggers | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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