This webinar will focus on the evaluation, management and unique considerations of common GU anomalies that a urogynecologist will encounter.

Margaret Mueller, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery/Urogynecology and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She joined the faculty in 2015 after completing her Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Northwestern University. She completed her residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at University of Chicago.

She is board-certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Mueller’s clinical interests include treatment of urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, fecal incontinence, complex urinary and rectal fistulas, and mesh complications. She has worked with expert pediatric surgeons to develop a nationally recognized program, the Collaborative Advanced Reconstructive Evaluation Clinic for Women with Congenital Anomalies, to care for young women with complex congenital anomalies. Increasing numbers of women who underwent complex surgery for cloacal and bladder exstrophy are transitioning to adulthood with unique urologic, obstetric, and gynecologic needs. Dr. Mueller recently earned ABOG Focus Practice Designation for Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology and is on staff at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital as well as Northwestern Medicine.

She is actively involved in Women’s Health Research and has received several national grants to study complex pelvic floor disorders. Most of her research interests focus on surgical outcomes. She is actively involved in multiple national research collaborations. She is also active in national organizations including AUGS, ABOG, SGS and ACS. Dr. Mueller is an enthusiastic surgical educator. She currently co-directs the Feinberg School of Medicine Reproductive and Genito-Urinary Sciences module and serves as the Fellowship Program Director for the Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery program.

Tajnoos Yazdany, MD is a urogynecologist working in Los Angeles county and associate professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She serves as Vice Chair of education, Program director for the FPMRS and OBGYN Residency at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Yazdany has also authored the book “Atlas of Urogynecology”.