OasisLMS

This webinar will focus primarily on recognizing complex pain syndromes, specifically symptom overlap between bladder pain as a symptom and sequelae of endometriosis.  

• Review FBPS nomenclature and existing guidelines. 
• Discuss the overlap of symptomatology and visceral organ cross-sensitization of the bladder, peritoneal cavity, uterus, and pelvic floor. 
• Review data behind multimodal care for chronic pelvic pain syndromes.

Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald, MD is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed her Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Georgetown University/MedStar Health and her Gynecology and Obstetrics residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She attended medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from the Physician Scientist Training Program where she studied overlapping mechanisms of bowel and bladder pain.  Before medical school, Dr. Fitzgerald attended The Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University and earned dual degrees in Neurobiology and Women’s Studies with a certificate in Women’s Health. Her research and advocacy has focused on Gyneconomics, discriminatory reimbursement and funding disparities in gynecologic surgery and women’s health research, mechanisms and misdiagnosis of female chronic pelvic and bladder pain, and the role of social and digital media in the online promotion of women’s health.