Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dr. Robert L. Summitt Jr., MD
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Dr. Robert L. Summitt Jr. is an expert in the field of Obstetrics & Gynecology. He attended University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He received 3 awards: "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Fellow (FACOG)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Robert Summitt is also published. He has 50 publications published. The lastest publication: "Common operations for stress incontinence: selecting the correct operation.' Robert L. Summitt Jr., MD accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Randomized trial of medical treatment versus hysterectomy for abnormal Uterine bleeding: resource use in the Medicine or Surgery (Ms) trial.
- Sexual functioning after total compared with supraCervical hysterectomy: a randomized trial.
- Resource use for total and supraCervical hysterectomies: results of a randomized trial.
- Hysterectomy versus expanded medical treatment for abnormal Uterine bleeding: clinical outcomes in the medicine or surgery trial.
- Effect of hysterectomy vs medical treatment on health-related quality of life and sexual functioning: the medicine or surgery (Ms) randomized trial.
- Medicine or Surgery (Ms): a randomized clinical trial comparing hysterectomy and medical treatment in premenopausal women with abnormal Uterine bleeding.
- Is a resident's score on a videotaped objective structured assessment of technical skills affected by revealing the resident's identity?
- Medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment of abnormal Uterine bleeding: factors predicting satisfaction.
- Vaginal dilators for intermittent pelvic support. A case report.
- Stress incontinence and low urethral closure pressure. Correlation of preoperative urethral hypermobility with successful suburethral sling procedures.
- Discrepancy of Cervical cytology and colposcopic biopsy: is Cervical conization necessary?
- Vaginal cuff closure at abdominal hysterectomy: comparing sutures with absorbable staples.
- Urinary incontinence: correlation of history and brief office evaluation with multichannel urodynamic testing.
- Cervical cytology: a randomized comparison of four sampling methods.
- Outpatient Vaginal hysterectomy: a pilot study.
- Investigative techniques, assessment of incontinence, and urodynamics.
- Randomized comparison of laparoscopy-assisted Vaginal hysterectomy with standard Vaginal hysterectomy in an outpatient setting.
- Urethral diverticula: evaluation by urethral pressure profilometry, cystourethroscopy, and the voiding cystourethrogram.
- The effect of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum on operative and postoperative pain during laparoscopic sterilization under local anesthesia.
- Serum bupivacaine levels during laparoscopic sterilization using local anesthesia.
- Laparoscopic hysterectomy--is there a benefit?
- Outpatient Vaginal hysterectomy as a new trend in gynecology.
- Peritoneal closure at Vaginal hysterectomy: a reassessment.
- Instruction in surgical anatomy for gynecology residents using prosected Human cadavers.
- Prospective comparison of indwelling bladder catheter drainage versus no catheter after Vaginal hysterectomy.
- Evaluation of pressure transmission ratios in women with genuine stress incontinence and low urethral pressure: a comparative study.
- Chromopertubation at laparoscopic tubal occlusion.
- A model for resident surgical training in laparoscopic sterilization.
- Urogynecologic causes of chronic Pelvic pain.
- Nephrogenic adenoma in a urethral diverticulum. A case report.
- Outpatient hysterectomy: determinants of discharge and rehospitalization in 133 patients.
- Synthetic hygroscopic Cervical dilator use in patients with unsatisfactory colposcopy.
- GnRH agonist and iron versus placebo and iron in the anemic patient before surgery for leiomyomas: a randomized controlled trial. Leuprolide Acetate Study Group.
- Incisional bowel herniations after operative laparoscopy: a series of nineteen cases and review of the literature.
- Laparoscopic-assisted Vaginal hysterectomy: a review of usefulness and outcomes.
- Practice management in obstetrics and gynecology residency curriculum.
- Common operations for stress incontinence: selecting the correct operation.
- A multicenter randomized comparison of laparoscopically assisted Vaginal hysterectomy and abdominal hysterectomy in abdominal hysterectomy candidates.
- Addressing a state's physician workforce priorities through the funding of graduate medical education: the TennCare model.
- Congenital androgen insensitivity due to a qualitatively abnormal androgen receptor.
- Incidence of nickel-induced sister-chromatid exchange.
- High-resolution chromosome analysis of phenotypically abnormal patients with apparently balanced structural rearrangements.
- Diploid-triploid mosaicism: delineation of the Syndrome.
- Amniotic fluid alpha-fetoprotein in the prenatal diagnosis of fetal neural tube defects.
- Genetic amniocentesis: a twelve years' experience.
- Phenotypic heterogeneity in the Noonan Syndrome.
- Duplication 6q Syndrome.
- Genetic forms of hypogonadism in the male.
- Disturbances of rapid-eye-movement sleep in 3 brothers with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.
Schools
University Of Tennessee Health Science Center College Of Medicine
University Tenn
UC Irvine
Procedures Preformed
- Colpopexy
- Colpopexy With Robotic Assistance
- Colporrhaphy
- Colposcopy
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Conditions Treated
- Asymptomatic Post-Menopausal Status
- Atrophic Vaginitis
- Cervical Polyps
- Cervicitis
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Doctors Specialties
- Obstetrics
- Gynecology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACOG)
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Tennessee -
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
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