Dr. Nikolaos Zacharias

Nikolaos Zacharias, MD, FACOG, is a native of Greece; he earned his medical diploma with excellence from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1995) reciting the Hippocratic Oath as a top graduate in his class. Dr. Zacharias received numerous Hellenic scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate education (1989-2002). He trained in Obstetrics Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, (1998-2002), elected chief resident in 2001. He received the Council of Resident Education in Obstetrics Gynecology Outstanding Academic Achievement Award four consecutive years (1999-2002) for scoring at the top 3% of his U.S. peers at these annual examinations. His passion for prenatal sonography and profound interest in pregnancy complications led him to a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, Texas (2002-2005), where he received the UTMB Hospital Academic Fellowship Award (2002-2005) and enrolled in a Masters in Medical Science post-graduate program on clinical research design (2003-2005, all courses passed with excellence, thesis defense pending). Dr. Zacharias returned to Baylor as assistant professor of Obstetrics Gynecology, in the Maternal Fetal Medicine Division (2005 - 2013). He served as medical director of the Harris Health System Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Program (2005 - 2012) and as founding medical director of the Ben Taub Maternal Fetal Medicine Prenatal Ultrasound Unit (2008 - 2012), having supervised over 30,000 prenatal sonograms. Dr. Zacharias has been an active member of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center (2006-2013), teaching faculty at Ben Taub General (2005 - 2013) and Texas Children’s Hospital (2008 - 2013). He is board-certified in Obstetrics Gynecology (2008) and Maternal Fetal Medicine (2011). Dr. Zacharias received Baylor's medical student faculty teaching award (2011) and was elected to America's Top Obstetricians Gynecologists (2012). He co-directed the maternal-fetal medicine elective clerkship at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Robert Carpenter (2012-2013). Dr. Zacharias is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians Gynecologists (2010) and a regular member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (2012). On August 2013 Dr. Zacharias became the inaugural Medical Director of Prenatal Ultrasound and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Center for Medical Genetics - collaborating with Geneticist Dr. Katherine Thompson. His focus will be on consultative perinatology and prenatal sonography with genetic testing, serving his beloved Southeast Texas population. Languages spoken: English, Spanish, French and Greek.