Meet Our Team
Richard Broth, MD
Maternal Fetal Medicine & Perinatal Specialist
Richard E. Broth, MD, is a perinatologist and the medical director of TLC Perinatal PA in Silver Spring & Germantown, Maryland. His practice is built ...
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Claire M. Gallagher, MD
Dr. Claire M. Gallagher joined TLC Perinatal in 2026 after serving for the past decade as a faculty member at the George Washington University School ...
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Dr. Claire M. Gallagher joined TLC Perinatal in 2026 after serving for the past decade as a faculty member at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. As part of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, she cared for patients while teaching both medical students and OB/GYN residents.
Dr. Gallagher earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology through the U.S. Navy at what is now Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, followed by a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Following her fellowship, Dr. Gallagher served as a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist at Naval Medical Center San Diego and the former National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. After completing her military service, she joined the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she practiced Maternal-Fetal Medicine and taught residents and medical students through Harvard Medical School. She later returned to Maryland, practicing in private Maternal-Fetal Medicine before joining the faculty at George Washington University.
Dr. Gallagher is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She is committed to providing compassionate, individualized care for patients experiencing high-risk pregnancies, with particular clinical interests in prenatal genetics and multifetal pregnancies.
Dr. Gallagher is excited to join TLC Perinatal and looks forward to working alongside Dr. Richard Broth and Jennifer Broder, CRNP, to continue providing exceptional, patient-centered Maternal-Fetal Medicine care.
Melissa Broder, NP
Melissa Broder is an experienced board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner providing excellent care to the TLC Perinatal patient community. Melissa g...
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Welcome To
TLC Perinatal PA
TLC Perinatal PA of Silver Spring & Germantown, Maryland, is a cutting edge perinatology specialty practice, offering patients comprehensive routine and pregnancy ultrasounds, medical care, consultations, and prenatal diagnosis. As its name suggests, the compassionate, highly trained physicians and staff treat their patients with extra “TLC.” Under the leadership of medical director Richard Broth, MD, the staff strives to deliver the best, most evidence-guided, state-of-the-art perinatal patient care possible.
At TLC Perinatal PA, the friendly staff knows that having a baby is an exciting time that can also be very stressful if problems should arise. They make every effort to put you at ease and make you feel at home from the time you walk into their beautiful office.
Services include testing and screening, such as prenatal testing, noninvasive prenatal screening, first-trimester screening, and cervical assessments. Also offered is diagnostic testing for low and high-risk pregnancies including women of advanced maternal age. Testing includes fetal echocardiograms, CVS, amniocentesis as well as a variety of ultrasound testing, such as transvaginal ultrasound and pulsed wave and color doppler.
TLC is dedicated to improving your care and experience by incorporating remote.
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INVU by Nuvo™ Remote Monitoring
Cutting-Edge Pregnancy Care From the Comfort of Home
TLC Perinatal offers advanced remote fetal monitoring with INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared wearable technology that allows eligible patients to complete non-stress tests (NSTs) outside of the clinic while remaining connected to their healthcare team.
Designed for convenience and peace of mind, INVU by Nuvo™ enables providers to remotely monitor important maternal and fetal health data throughout the third trimester, helping support high-quality prenatal care.
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