Residency
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL

Julius-Maximilian University
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Wuerzburg, Germany

Lutheran Hospital
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany

Medical School / Undgraduate
Christian Albrecths Universitat Zu Kiel
Germany

Research

     Current:

• Post-operative walking enhancements for recovery (The POWER Study): A randomized controlled trial. RCT designed to test whether women with a goal for walking post-operatively actually do walk more than women undergoing routine care.

     Completed:

• Study of obstetric Foley techniques (SOFT): A randomized controlled trial. RCT designed to compare the effect of intermittent vs indwelling catheterization on time to delivery in laboring women with an epidural.
  
  
•  Vitrification: An alternative to slow freezing for human embryos, oocytes and sperm.

• Ureteral endometriosis causing hydronephrosis: A case report.
  
  
• Pneumoperitoneum for laparoscopy: Pathophysiology and clinical aspects.