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About the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Dr. Richard Miller, Chairman, 11 Full-time faculty,
and 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 acting 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, and Natalie Cekleniak
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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