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| OB-GYN names student award for Mason
Andrews The Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology has created the Mason C. Andrews
Citizen-Scholar Award to be given each year to a medical student
who exemplifies values and ideals promulgated by Andrews.
Alfred Z. Abuhamad, M.D., chairman of the department, announced
the award at a tribute to Andrews held Jan. 25.
Andrews would appreciate an honor benefiting medical students,
Abuhamad said. “Dr. Andrews loved the medical students and the
medical students loved him back.”
The citizen-scholar award is not restricted to obstetrics and
gynecology students. Instead, it is intended for medical
students who, like Andrews, contribute not only to the medical
field but to the surrounding community.
The $1,000 award with be presented at a graduation dinner that
occurs each May.
For more information on the award, and on how to apply, click
here
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The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
provides a wide variety of consultation services for Virginia physicians. General
obstetrical and gynecological care, as well as specialized treatment, are available.
Our mission:
- To provide the
highest caliber health care and patient services available to women in
southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina
- To serve the
community through advanced biomedical research and outreach
educational programs benefiting our women patients
- To educate medical
students, residents, fellows, and community faculty on issues
regarding all aspects of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health, and
preventive health care measures
The following services
are offered by the EVMS Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology:
The Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine provides obstetric consultation
and care limited to high-risk pregnancies. Services provided by the
division include ultrasound for fetal diagnosis and therapy, genetic
counseling and diagnosis, and antepartum fetal management. Obstetric
care is available for pregnancies complicated by diabetes,
hypertension, cardiac disease, and other disorders. The division also
staffs the region's maternal transport service at Sentara Norfolk
General Hospital. The Center for Advanced Fetal Therapy
The Prenatal Diagnosis
and Genetics Program, staffed by certified genetic counselors, provides a
wide array of services, including cancer risk assessment, counseling
for preimplantation genetic diagnosis, chorionic villus sampling,
amniocentesis, percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling, DNA enzyme
analysis, and umbilical cord stem cell collection.
Specialized ultrasound
technologies and certified ultrasonographers provide high-tech
ultrasound imaging for prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformations
(defects), and complex gynecologic pathology.
Diabetes in Pregnancy
Program The
Diabetes in Pregnancy Program provides a unique multidisciplinary
approach to the obstetrical and medical care of women with diabetes.
Certified diabetes educators (available 24 hours a day) and a perinatal
dietitian offering nutritional counseling have extensive experience in
caring for pregnant women. The program’s goal is to ensure that women
with diabetes have healthy pregnancy outcomes for both mother and
child.
Nutritional Counseling
Professional perinatal
dietitians offer nutritional counseling that provides individualized
dietary management when clinically indicated.
HIV
in Pregnancy Program
The HIV in Pregnancy
Program utilizes the latest therapies for HIV in the antepartum and
intrapartum period. Since the inception of this multidisciplinary and
unique program in 1992, the perinatal transmission rate (from mother to
baby) of HIV in the Hampton Roads region has dropped dramatically from
50 percent (one of the highest in the nation) to 0 percent in 2000
(nationally reported average 2-5 percent).
Antepartum Fetal Management Antepartum Fetal Management for high-risk pregnancies is
provided at several fetal diagnostic units. These are located in close
proximity to labor and delivery suites and provide a wide array of
tests including nonstress tests, contraction stress tests,
and biophysical profiles.
Maternal Transport
Program The
Maternal Transport Program, one of the busiest on the East Coast,
provides unsurpassed care to high-risk pregnant women to approximately
600 women annually who are transported to our tertiary care centers via
ambulance or helicopter from the southeastern Virginia, eastern shore
of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina regions. Our team provides
around the clock coverage for these obstetrical emergencies.
Teenage Pregnancy Program
The Teenage Pregnancy
Program specializes in the needs of the pregnant adolescent.
Perinatal Research Program
The MFM Perinatal
Research Program currently has a number of ongoing prospective clinical
trials in a wide variety of clinical areas of research, including
perinatal ultrasound, genetics, infectious disease in pregnancy and
peripartum, and diabetes in pregnancy.
The Howard and Georgeanna Jones
Institute for Reproductive Medicine is world renowned for its success
in treating all types of endocrine and fertility problems. Services
provided by the Institute include endocrine and infertility and
endocrine evaluation, ovulation induction, artificial insemination, in
vitro fertilization, and sperm and pre-embryo cryopreservation.
Specialized reproductive surgery is available with experience in laser
surgery, microsurgery, hysteroscopy (office and inpatient), as well as
treatment for congenital anomalies and endometriosis. Consultation
services are available for pelvic pain, heavy menstrual flow, and other
gynecologic problems.
Other advanced
reproductive services provided include gamete intra-fallopian transfer
(GIFT), zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT), pre-embryo
cryopreservation and a variety of micromanipulative procedures to
assist fertilization, such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI),
and to assist implantation, such as assisted hatching. In addition, the
division includes a very successful donor egg program and offers
pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
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