Michele Follen, MD, PHD, MBA, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist with Kings County Hospital Center

Get to know Obstetrician-Gynecologist Dr. Michele Follen, who serves patients in New York.

New York City, Jan 12, 2021 (Issuewire.com) - Recognized as a seasoned obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Follen is the Chair of the Cancer Committee, the Facility Chair of Research, and the Director of Gynecologic Oncology at Kings County Hospital Center.

Kings County Hospital Center is a municipal hospital located in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. It is owned and operated by NYC Health + Hospitals, a municipal agency that runs New York City's public hospitals.

Built-in 1831 as a one-room infirmary for publicly supported care of the sick, Kings County Hospital Center continues to be a leading health care facility whose mission is to provide care to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. The hospital provides a wide range of health services, and specialties are offered in all fields of modern medicine. More than 200 clinics provide a wide array of ambulatory care services.

Prior to her current endeavors, Dr. Follen served as the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center; a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology & the Co-Director of the Laura W. Bush Research in Women's Health at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University in El Paso; the Director of Research at the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership, the Associate Dean for Research, and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Drexel University College of Medicine; and a Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

With a strong educational background, Dr. Follen attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for her bachelor's degree, medical degree, Master of Science degree in Clinical Research Design, and Doctorate in Epidemiology degree. She stayed in Ann Arbor for an internship in general surgery and subsequently served her government and worked for the Public Health Service as a medical director and general practitioner at a neighborhood health center affiliated with Jacobi-Einstein in the Bronx, New York, for 2 years. She received 2 meritorious service awards for her work. 

Furthering her education, she performed her training in obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. She was selected for a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She stayed there for 23 years before spending 2.5 years at the Drexel University College of Medicine.

While at MD Anderson, Dr. Follen created the Department of Cancer Prevention (now a large division); created the first outside service of MD Anderson personnel to the impoverished at the University of Texas Health Science Center Hermann Hospital and the Lyndon Baines Johnson County Hospital; served on the Internal Review Board; and obtained as principal investigator and maintained a Program Project involving the "Optical Imaging of Cervical Neoplasia." During her tenure there, she also initiated and directed the Biomedical Engineering Center, a collaboration between the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and MD Anderson. She was responsible for the establishment of the undergraduate biomedical engineering department at the University of Texas in Austin, and she served on the faculty there for ten years and also taught students on the Austin campus. 

With a passion for her profession, the doctor is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology & gynecologic oncology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG). The mission of the ABOG is to define standards, certify obstetricians and gynecologists, and facilitate continuous learning to advance knowledge, practice, and professionalism in women's health.

More recently, Dr. Follen obtained funding from ExxonMobil Foundation, the T. Boone Pickens Foundation, and FedEx, to establish and manage a screening program for cervical cancer in Nigeria based at six medical schools around the country. This has been successfully running for seven years.

Obstetrics and Gynecology is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties of obstetrics and gynecology. An obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, is a healthcare professional who specializes in female reproductive health.

The author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Follen is an internationally recognized expert in cervical cancer detection and prevention, cervical chemoprevention, and the use of optical technologies and molecular imaging for cervical neoplasia. 

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