- Dr. Richard Miller, Chairman
- Dr. Edward Wolf, Vice Chairman
- Dr. John Kindzierski, Residency Director
- 11 Full-time faculty
- 110 Attendings
The Department of Ob/Gyn delivers more than 7,500 babies
annually. The IVF Program is New Jersey’s largest full-service
hospital-based in-vitro fertilization program. The Medical
Center is designated as a Regional Perinatal Center and accepts
transports and provides care for high-risk mothers and critically
ill infants in New Jersey’s leading Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit.
The gynecological surgical caseload comprises 9,000 operative
procedures per year, 3,774 major and 5,227 minor. There are
113 physicians on staff for general Ob/Gyn and all three
subspecialties: REI, Gyn. Oncology and Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Residents are involved in the care of all Ob/Gyn patients,
from the voluntary and full-time faculty. The volume of experience
is high and the level of supervision is well defined. The
goal is to produce high quality Ob/Gyn physicians who gain
confidence/expertise through defined and monitored training.
Dr. Miller is chair of the department and director
of the residency program. Dr. Miller, an esteemed perinatologist,
has been with the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at
Saint Barnabas Medical Center since 1996. He graduated from
Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his
residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the National Naval
Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Miller completed his
fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine at the University
of Chapel Hill in 1991. He spent four years as Director of
the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the National Naval
Medical Center and was a member of the faculty at the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences and the National
Institutes of Health.
- Drs. Thad Denehy and Robert Taylor
The Division of Gynecologic Oncology and Reconstructive
Pelvic Surgery serves as a regional referral center for both
gynecologic oncology as well as pelvic reconstructive surgeries,
attracting patients from throughout New Jersey and the tri-state
area. The Center has one of the highest volumes in the Northeast.
A comprehensive range of services is provided, including
radical surgery, cytoreduction, bowel and urologic surgery,
lymphadenectomies, implantable vascular ports and the latest
in multiagent chemotherapeutics. The Division manages the
full spectrum of gynecologic malignancies of vulvar, vaginal,
cervical, endometrial, ovarian and gestational trophoblastic
origin.
• As a PGY-2, the resident is introduced to staging,
treatment of gynecologic malignancies and basic concepts
in pre and postoperative care. The PGY-3 resident assists
various advanced pelvic and radical surgical procedures.
The PGY-4 resident has the opportunity to first assist
in a large number of gynecologic oncology and advanced
pelvic surgeries, all performed under expert supervision.
The Center for Urogynecology of Saint Barnabas Medical Center
specializes in the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse, urinary
stress and/or urge incontinence, voiding dysfunction, fecal
incontinence, overactive bladder, chronic pelvic pain, including
interstitial cystitis and other urogynecologic problems.
An experienced medical team offers patients both conservative
and surgical approaches.
The Center offers comprehensive evaluation and treatment
with a variety of therapies, including behavioral modification,
pelvic floor rehabilitation, biofeedback, bladder re-training,
medications, transurethral injections, vaginal inserts and
minimally invasive surgery.
Residents will rotate through his office to learn the workup
of urinary incontinence, the evaluation of pelvic floor defects
and the procedure of urodynamics. They will also assist in
both vaginal and abdominal reconstructive surgeries and anti-incontinence
procedures.
- Drs. Serena Chen, Margaret Garrisi, Natalie Cekleniak, and Keri Greenseid
One of the nation’s leading fertility centers, the
Institute provides patients with state-of-the-art clinical
treatments, supported by the latest scientific knowledge
and laboratory techniques. The Institute treats patients
from 40 states and 16 countries. Their success in treating
both male and female related disorders is evidenced by the
Institute’s pregnancy rates, which are among the highest
in the world.
Procedures pioneered at the Institute include: ICSI (Intracytoplasmic
Sperm Injection) that was fine-tuned by others, Assisted
Hatching, Fragment Removal, Embryo Co-Culture, Preimplantation
Genetic Diagnosis, Blastocyst Culture and Cryopreservation,
Cytoplasmic Transplantation and Single Sperm Freezing.
• The PGY-3 resident rotates through the REI office
and learns the use of ovulation induction therapy, advanced
infertility therapies and IVF procedures, follicular and
endometrial stripe monitoring, and advanced laparoscopic
and hysteroscopic procedures.
- Drs. Leon Smith, Jr., Ed Wolf, Richard Miller, Wendy
Warren, and Dom Terrone
The members of the Division are extensively trained experts
in the field of perinatal medicine and the treatment of women
who anticipate or are experiencing a high-risk pregnancy.
The medical team consists of perinatologists, perinatal nurses,
ultrasonographers and genetic counselors with extensive training
in high-risk pregnancy care. They serve as consultants to
physicians in managing a complicated pregnancy, and assist
obstetricians in the tri-state area in the care of high-risk
patients.
• Through didactic lectures, teaching rounds, and
grand round lectures, the perinatologists educate the department’s
many students. PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents attend to private
patients with perinatologists in a hospital-based practice
setting doing ultrasounds, amniocentesis, versions and
in-patient rounds. In addition, the PGY-3 resident is responsible
for the PET Unit. The PGY-4 resident coordinates the prenatal
clinic and the antepartum service (which entails daily
teaching rounds with both junior residents and students);
and is responsible for assigning obstetrical cases, managing
complicated patients, and acting as the administrator of
L&D and the PET.
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