Wheeler sole R.I. physician to pass pediatric, adolescent gynecology designation exam

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Carol A. Wheeler, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Fertility Center at Women & Infants Hospital, recently took and passed the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Focused Practice Designation Exam in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, the only Rhode Island physician to do so.

Women’s bodies are very different and more developed than bodies of a young or adolescent girl, and the gynecologic problems of younger females need special expertise, according to a recently released statement on the test. As a successful student of the test, Wheeler is now better prepared to address the gynecologic needs of females from birth to young adulthood, Women & Infants said.

Wheeler is one of only 100 physicians nationwide who took the exam, and the only one in Rhode Island.

The designation is only the latest of Wheeler’s achievements in the field. She is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and clinician educator at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a member of the Care New England Medical Group. She is the director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic, Third-Party Reproduction Program, and medical director of In Vitro Fertilization. She sees patients at both Women & Infants Obstetrics and Gynecology Care Center and Fertility Center.

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Wheeler, who is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility, earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Following this, she completed her residency training in obstetrics at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, and her fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rob Borkowski is a PBN staff writer. Email him at Borkowski@PBN.com.