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  • The Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Services Program

  • The Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Services program at Rhode Island Hospital and the Women’s Medicine Collaborative is the state’s only integrated, specialty care service that offers minimally invasive gynecology for women of all ages through an affiliation with a full-service hospital.

    Through a partnership with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, our board-certified and board-eligible physicians are able to offer advanced surgical and nonsurgical techniques to restore your former quality of life.

    Under the direction of Scott Walker, MD, FACOG, the Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Services program is the first of its kind in the region. Our team offers a full range of services to address all gynecologic conditions, gynecologic cancers and pelvic floor disorders, with the least amount of trauma and discomfort possible.

    Our program has a dedicated, collaborative team of surgeons who specialize in minimally invasive approaches for women who require gynecologic surgery, such as vaginal “scar–free” surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and robotic–assisted surgery. The advantages of these approaches are numerous, and include less post-operative pain, a quicker recovery, less blood loss and scarring, a lower risk of wound infections and a shortened hospital stay.

    About Our Services

    Our center is the only of its kind with interventional radiology specialists who offer uterine artery embolization for non-surgical management of fibroids, nonsurgical ablation of soft tissue endometriosis, and nonsurgical treatment of pelvic congestion syndrome.

    The team of specialists in the Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Services program offers proven treatments for a variety of conditions including:

    • Heavy menstrual periods
    • Severe menstrual cramps
    • Pelvic pain
    • Endometriosis
    • Infertility
    • Pelvic organ prolapse
    • Urinary incontinence
    • Fecal incontinence
    • Uterine fibroids
    • Ovarian cysts
    • Pelvic congestion syndrome
    • Gynecologic cancer (ovary, uterus, cervix, vagina, vulvar)
    • Precancerous conditions of female organs
    • Abnormal Pap smears

    The offices of the Women’s Medicine Collaborative are conveniently located throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Our surgeries are performed at Rhode Island Hospital, a full-service, academic, tertiary care hospital.

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