PROVIDENCE – Dr. Deborah Myers, a board-certified female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeon and director of Women & Infants Hospital’s division of urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, received the Distinguished Surgeon Award at the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons. The surgical society’s mission is to promote excellence in gynecologic surgery through acquisition of knowledge and improvement of skills, advancement of basic and clinical research, and professional and public education.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook Medical School, Myers completed her medical-surgical internship at Rhode Island Hospital and her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants, before joining Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England facility, in 1992.
Vice chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology, director of continuing medical education at Women & Infants and chair of the promotions committee of the department of OB-GYN at The Warren Alpert Medical School, Myers is a past president of the national American Urogynecologic Society.
Myers has received other awards and recognitions. Named the American Urogynecologic Society recipient of the National Association of Continence 2012 Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award, she is an oral examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the FDA advisory panel on OB-GYN medical devices. Myers has achieved certification by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive pelvic surgery, the hospital reported.
Nancy Kirsch is a PBN contributing writer.
