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Dr. Carol Wheeler Earns Designation in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Release Date: 11/08/2018

A woman’s body is very different and more developed than the body of a young or adolescent girl, and the gynecologic problems of younger females need special expertise. To help address the gynecologic needs of females from birth to young adulthood, Carol A. Wheeler, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Fertility Center at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, recently took and passed the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s (ABOG) Focused Practice Designation Exam in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Dr. Wheeler is one of only 100 physicians nationwide who took the exam, and the only one in Rhode Island.

ABOG introduced this new designation earlier this year. Gary Frishman, MD, interim director of the Fertility Center at Women & Infants said, “This is a new designation on the part of ABOG with relatively few providers around the country so recognized in the field of pediatric and adolescent gynecology. We are truly fortunate to have Dr. Wheeler’s expertise to help provide care for this patient population.”

Dr. Wheeler is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, 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 (IVF). She’s sees patients at both Women & Infants Obstetrics and Gynecology Care Center (OGCC) and Fertility Center.

Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility, Dr. Wheeler 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, OH, and her fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

About Women & Infants Hospital 

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiography; a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group and the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network.