GYNECOLOGY
Women have specific health needs, which require special care. To provide exceptional women’s health care, DCH offers a Women’s Health Outpatient Clinic offering gynecology services.
Our team provides diagnosis, treatment, and support for unique and complicated health issues such as:
- Pain in the genital region following
- Surgery (gynecological and non-gynecological)
- Child birth (c/s or vaginal birth)
- Chemotherapy
- Genital symptoms in patients with range of medical disorders such as:
- IBD (inflammatory bowel disease)
- Autoimmune disorders,
- Sisfiguring and ulcerative manifestation of common dermatological conditions in urogenital region (lichen planus, etc.)
WOMEN'S HEALTH CLINIC SERVICES
Our medical team provides personal and compassionate care for a wide range of women’s services:
- On-site surgical services
- Abnormal pap smears
- Annual screenings
- Breast exams
- Cancer screenings
- Colposcopy
- Endometriosis
- Evaluation and treatment of menopause
- Evaluation and treatment of menstrual irregularities
- Family planning including contraceptive advice and management
- IUD placement & removal
- Menopause symptoms
- Pap smears
- Pelvic exams
- Pelvic pain
- Evaluation and treatment of urological disorders
- Uterine fibroids
- Urinary incontinence
- Evaluation and treatment of vaginal infections
- Well-woman exams
PROVIDER
DENNIZ ZOLNOUN, MD, MPH
Dr. Zolnoun comes to us from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she has served as an associate professor in the schools of medicine (Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Surgery) and dentistry (Department of Endodontics) for nearly two decades. Dr. Zolnoun currently holds positions as adjunct faculty in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, SOM, and UNC’s Center for Pain Research and Innovation.
In deference to her leadership efforts in research and advancement of science in women’s health, she was awarded “The Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Woman’s Health” by S.W.H.R in 2011.
Her clinical practice cuts across traditional medical specialty silos, addressing unmet needs of men and women with urogenital pain. Prior to joining us, Dr. Zolnoun was a founding member and the medical director of UNC Urogenital Pain and peripheral nerve clinic in the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery at UNC. In addition to overseeing day to day care of patient with urogenital pain she was involved in development of novel treatment modalities, including but not limited, to nerve sparing surgical techniques, and peripheral neuromodulation.
I'M INTERESTED IN WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES
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