Academic Faculty Physician
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptis
Catherine A. Matthews MD, FACS, FACOG is Professor of Urology and Gynecology at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and serves as the Division Director and Fellowship Director of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. She serves as an editor for the International Urogynecology Journal and is surgical education chair for the International Urogynecology Association. Dr. Matthews is also a board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is the co-chair for the upcoming Urogynecology Prologue from ACOG. She has delivered more than 100 invited international and national lectures and workshops and has received numerous teaching awards. Dr. Matthews has received multiple awards for her excellence in patient care and has been an annual recipient of “Top Doctors in America” for the past 20 years. She has published over150 peer-reviewed papers in pelvic organ prolapse surgery, robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy, and fecal incontinence and is currently the principal investigator of 4 multicenter clinical trials. In addition, Dr. Matthews is collaborating with the Wake Forest Regenerative Medicine Institute on a tissue-reengineered neovagina for women with vaginal agenesis.