For immediate release: Nov. 4, 2008
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Stanley M. Abramow, M.D., joins School of Medicine's
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
LAS VEGAS, Nev.— Stanley M. Abramow, M.D., Fellow, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, joins the University of Nevada School of Medicine as an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Las Vegas.
Abramow brings more than four decades of experience in women’s healthcare to University Health System, the clinical practice of the School of Medicine, where he will see patients and instruct medical residents.
“I will be teaching obstetrical techniques such as forceps and breech deliveries,” Abramow said.
Prior to joining the School of Medicine, he was in private practice in Las Vegas coming from Long Beach, Calif. where he was chairman or chief of staff at several hospitals. He earned his medical degree from State University of New York Upstate Medical Center at Syracuse before completing his residency at Millard-Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.