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Karolynn Echols, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor, Director of FPMRS
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Karolynn Echols is Associate Professor, section chief of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and co-director of the Jefferson Comprehensive Urogynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine program. She earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, most recently completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine and is board certified in the field. She is also certified in Japanese acupuncture and incorporates this into her unique practice and is recognized as an expert in all aspects of Urogynecology including the conventional, surgical, and complementary management of pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, menopause, sexual health, and pelvic pain and takes an integrative approach to all patients. She is currently concentrating her research on Integrative Urogynecology and Regenerative Medicine as it applies to women’s health, more specifically urinary incontinence, pelvic reconstructive surgery, perimenopause, sexual health, and pain and has patents pending in this arena.

Dr. Echols also has vast experience doing philanthropic work in obstetrical fistula, urogynecologic surgery and gynecology in Cameroon, Niger, Kenya, Rwanda, and Jamaica. She has been a board member of the International Organization of Women and Development and a genitourinary fistula mission Team Lead to Niger and Rwanda for several years. Currently, she is the president and co-founder of Medicine in Action, a non-profit organization that continues to enhance women and children’s health in Jamaica since 2005 and continues to lead Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (Urogynecology) surgical missions biannually.

She currently serves as Award Committee liaison of the DEI Committee of the American Urogynecologic Society. She is the first Urogynecologist to serve on the written board committee of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and was recently nominated and elected to volunteer on the Board itself.

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