Eva Zasloff MD is a board certified family doctor trained in pediatrics and women’s health who focuses on the fourth trimester. She is the founder of Tova Health and the Fourth Trimester Newborn & Maternal Care model.
Dr. Zasloff is a leader in the field of the fourth trimester and healthcare innovation. She has published various articles on pediatric and postpartum issues for both popular magazines and academic publications including research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Boston Children's Hospital and has been featured in the Boston Globe magazine. She is a co-author in Rakel’s Integrative Medicine textbook 2nd edition on chapters related to pregnancy and postpartum.
Dr. Zasloff is also a painter. She received her BA in visual arts from Barnard College graduating Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude. Her art often reflects topics around birth and the fourth trimester and is exhibited at a variety of galleries and community spaces. In addition, she hosts gatherings and exhibits at her art studio/barn, including this group exhibit in 2023 In the Fourth Trimester, which was reviewed in The Boston Globe.
Dr. Zasloff is honored to currently be a scholar at the WSRC at Brandeis University focusing on feminist activism and healthcare. She is on the board of Catalyst Conversations, an organization that hosts panel discussions around science and art in Boston. She was honored to be on the advisory board for the 2018 MIT Media Lab Breastpump Hackathon where leaders in science, innovation, and policy came together to brainstorm ways to improve breastfeeding, equity and maternity rights in our country.
With her sisters, she is a co-founder of Sisters Body, a family company that makes microbiome-friendly body products and donates a portion of their profits to support reproductive rights.
During medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to training as a doula and giving birth to her first child, Dr. Zasloff was awarded the FOCUS Women’s Health Leadership grant. With guidance from the nonprofit literacy branch of What to Expect When You Are Expecting, she created a pregnancy education and creative exploration program for pregnant teens.
After medical school, Dr. Zasloff spent a year in Stockholm doing research on the postpartum experience at the Karolinska Institute with Ulla Waldenstrom, one of the founding midwives of the Swedish birth center movement. She also gave birth to her second child there! After returning back to the U.S., she completed a family medicine residency at Tufts/Cambridge Health Alliance where she focused her training on pediatrics, delivering babies and learning to care for the whole family in a holistic way.
Dr. Zasloff then spent many years working as a doctor at a family medicine practice in Somerville, MA. In 2016, she created this practice and new model of care in order to attempt to innovate and rethink how we currently care for mothers and newborns.
Dr. Zasloff lives in Arlington, MA with her husband and three sons.
