A recent New York Times article looks at the growing number of experts, including Dr. Carolyn L. Westhoff, a gynecologist at Columbia University Medical Center, who now question the value of conducting routine pelvic exams on asymptomatic women.
Mark V. Sauer, M.D.
“Mark Sauer has led this field from the front to establish an authority second to none, and a glance at the contents is enough to confirm that this book lives up to the highest expectations.”
“It will stand tall among the books published on the care and practice of assisted conception, and especially among those on oocyte donation.”
The latest edition of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, includes a new study by Dr. Jason Wright and his colleagues from CUMC’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on “Robotically Assisted vs Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Among Women With Benign Gynecologic Disease”.
Dr. Mark Sauer, CWRC Program Director, is part of the joint team of scientists from The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), which has developed a technique that may prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases in children. The study is published in Nature.
The connection between technology and health care fascinates Dr. Paula Castaño. Suspecting that texting patients on a daily basis could improve oral contraceptive pill (OCP) continuation, she designed a study to test the hypothesis. Published in the January 2012 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, her study concluded that texting does work: young women who received daily educational text messages showed improved OCP adherence at six months, over routine care alone.
Dr. Joy Vink, was named the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM)/American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation’s (AAOGF) Scholarship Award 2012-2015 Recipient at SMFM’s annual meeting in 2012. The scholarship is awarded to future academic physician leaders in OB/GYN to advance their scientific training and development. Scholars receive annual funding of $100,000 for three consecutive years of research.
Dr. Berkowitz receiving the 2012 King Faisal International Award for Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Berkowitz traveled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to accept the 2012 King Faisal International Award for Medicine, sometimes called the Arab Nobel Prize. He was honored for nearly three decades of clinical research on a rare fetal blood disorder, alloimmune thrombocytopenia (AIT). This rare condition affects women who develop an immune reaction to their baby’s platelets, which causes their babies to have very low platelet counts or brain bleeds (intracranial hemorrhage) which can cause death before or during birth. He shares the prize with his colleague, Dr. James Bussel, a pediatric hematologist.
OB/GYN residents Dr. Erica Mahany, class of 2012, and Dr. Hemashi Perera, class of 2013, were one of six students in each class to receive the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s “Humanism and Excellence in Teaching” Award. Third year students select up to six residents to receive the Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award, based on their demonstration of commitment to teaching and compassionate treatment of patients and families, students and colleagues. Each award winner is presented with a certificate, a specially designed lapel pin and a check for $250 from the Gold Foundation. The residents were recognized at this year’s Student Clinician’s Ceremony. Along with family, friends, fellow P&S students, faculty members and staff, the Class of 2014 made its official transition to the clinical year at the ceremony.