Gender affirming care is as important as any other medical care and is yet another place where government should not be involved unless it involves providing insurance coverage for that care. #protecttranskids 🏳️‍⚧️

Proud to serve as faculty for this impressive group of Penn Medicine trained gynecologists and excited to see their presentations at #SGS2022

Using the break time at #SGS2022 to breastfeed, and that’s how we do work/life integration #surgeonmom

I’m rather partial to #3 and #4 😍 Dee Fenner MD and @LizHowellMD your leadership is inspiring 👏 and pretty cool to say I’ve only trained and worked under female department chairs 💪

My post oral boards recovery has included wine, cupcakes, Thai food, baby snuggles, and Taylor Swift. What else do I need??

The End. I wish… via ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ nytimes.com/2022/05/18/opi…

My 8 mo old is learning how to clap, and I’m going to imagine he’s clapping for me passing my urogyn oral boards to officially become a board certified Urogynecologist! 🙌

If you are burning with rage shaking with grief anguished imagining these families' agony If you're picturing what if it was your child watching the news uncomprehending We have a place for you. Join the movement to #EndGunViolence. Text ACT to 644-33 now. #Uvalde Moms Demand Action

If this type of post-birth retreat could be made more accessible, it would be a game changer for easing that slap in the face transition from pregnant to parent ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2022/06/01/sty…

📢 Drinking lots of water does not make you healthier. It does make you pee more! 📢

Hey Philly 🥨 —Come and get your cancer screening! For free! 😁

Just learned about 'fertility coaches' and find it a concerning practice: "unlike physicians or attorneys in private practice, a coach is not bound by professional codes or fiduciary duties" 🚩🚩🚩 The Girlbosses of Fertility thecut.com/2022/06/fertil… via The Cut

So proud of our Penn Medicine fellow *Dr. Ed Kim* for presenting his AUGS funded study creating a highly usable patient centered texting platform for self management of IC/BPS. Find him at the meeting to learn more! #AUGSIUGA22 #bladderpain

Reconnecting and networking with Penn Medicine urogyn past and present ❤️💙 Megan Schimpf Christopher Hong, MD Mary Ackenbom MD, MSc

Always 💙💛 reuniting with my fellowship fam!

Dr. Nager’s suggestion to consider vaginal native tissue surgery for primary prolapse repair and reserve sacrocolpopexy for recurrent prolapse really resonated with me. What do others think? #AUGSIUGA22

Here’s How Philanthropy Can Protect Access to Abortion in a Post-Roe v. Wade World | Guttmacher Institute guttmacher.org/article/2022/0…

Access to safe abortion care is essential for health, especially now that US maternal mortality is increasing at an alarming rate 🚨 All-Cause Maternal Mortality Before vs During COVID-19 Pandemic ja.ma/3yuR90B via JAMA Network Open part of JAMA Network

Don’t miss these pelvic anatomy experts!

As the SGS Pelvic Anatomy Group Digital Library steering committee, we ask you to please help support our education work by donating tonight! #SGS2023 Society of Gynecologic Surgeons