- Family Practice“ We recently had the honor of having Sr. Renée Mirkes in the Fargo diocese... All of her presentations were well received. I cannot begin to tell you the good that has come out of her talks. For example, one of the family practice physicians called to tell me that finally the Church’s teaching makes sense to him and he is considering the medical consultant program at the Institute. I have had numerous compliments from the priests and hopefully you will see a few at the Leadership training this fall. ”
- GynecologyMeet Dr. William Nolan, an OB-GYN with UPMC Divine Mercy Women’s Health in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This group was formerly with Holy Spirit Hospital, and it was a Catholic medical practice. It has since merged with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center of Central PA, but unlike with other secular institutions, they have been allowed to continue to practice in a way that is in accord with their ethics.
- Female Infertility
- ObstetricsCare System, which is the foundational family planning system to NaProTECHNOLOGY, along with its laboratory support systems, its applications in a medical setting, its applications in infertility and obstetrics and its surgical applications were all, for the first time, definitively described. This textbook, and the work of NaProTECHNOLOGY over the last 14 years, has generated a considerable amount of interest among physicians and there is a growing number of young obstetrician-gynecologists who are requesting advanced training in this approach.
- EndometriosisWomen struggling with infertility, premenstrual syndrome, hormonal dysfunction, endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, postpartum depression, preterm birth, and other women’s health conditions can experience true healing through the new women’s health science of NaPro Technology which provides patients with a diagnosis of what is causing their infertility and treatments which are generally more successful than in vitro fertilization.
- Pelvic PainPeople who seek services at the Institute are those who have reproductive abnormalities, including infertility, repetitive miscarriage, previous stillbirth, a history of prematurity and other reproductive disorders. It also serves patients who have premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, postpartum depression, recurrent ovarian cysts, chronic pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian disease, extensive pelvic adhesive disease, and other patients in the general field of obstetrics and gynecology.
- Pregnancy
- EndoscopyIn the late 1980s, Dr. Veasy Buttram, a well-known reconstructive pelvic surgeon initiated a one-year fellowship program in reproductive surgery. The program was developed because he recognized that most graduating residents in obstetrics and gynecology were not fully trained in modern reproductive (infertility) surgery. This was the first of a group of ad hoc fellowship programs which were developed mostly in non-university hospitals by private physicians. This has now evolved into an advanced endoscopy fellowship training program sponsored by the Society of Reproductive Surgeons and the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.
- Depression
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- EndocrinologyThe reproductive endocrinology programs do not represent universal ethical principles which are applicable to all patients. The embryo-destructive nature of IVF procedures excludes a large population of patients from being assisted by these approaches. Furthermore, the artificial reproductive technologies are oriented towards “skipping over” the underlying disease process and attempting to treat the reproductive abnormality by replacing it with an artificial approach. All in all, the overall success rates with such approaches have remained relatively stagnant over the last 25 years.
- UltrasoundOver 4,000 ovulation cycles have been studied by ultrasound at the Institute — more than any other single program in the world.
- Plastic SurgeryHaving said all this, however, we are in a unique position to reach young people of faith who do not go floating in the direction of the various breezes. When you think about it, that is really incredible, and, in many ways, exciting. Our fellowship is one year in duration. Physicians learn how to perform surgical procedures, which can be quite extensive. Because of research completed here at the Institute to help prevent the formation of scar tissue and adhesions from such a surgery, we developed a new surgical procedure called pelvioplasty. This is a plastic surgery approach to the pelvis, really significantly reducing the adhesion formation and allowing us to complete the types of extensive surgeries often necessary. In fact, the Institute and its reputation have grown so much in the last 15 years; the level of cases we see — the severity of them — has also grown. This is mostly because patients have seen other doctors in their local communities who have performed surgical procedures but do not know how to perform these procedures or are unwilling to take the time to do so in such a way as to eliminate scar tissue formation.
- Cyst