Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Text: W.M.C. Health Westchester Medical Center Health Network. WELCOME. A man speaks. He has short gray hair. He wears a dark suit, a white shirt, a blue and gold patterned tie. The background is a plain light gray wall. Text: Sean S. Tedjarati, MD, M P H, MBA, FRCS (c), FACOG, Chief Clinical Integration Officer / W.M.C. Health, Chairman & Clinical Professor, Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York Medical College.

[SEAN TEDJARATI]
SEAN S. TEDJARATI: Hi. My name is Dr. Sean Tedjarati, and I have the pleasure and honor of serving as the chair and director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Westchester Medical Center Health Network and New York Medical College School of Medicine.


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I want to take this opportunity to extend my warmest welcome to our department and thank you for your interest in our program. I am excited

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to share what sets us apart from the department and to share these few minutes with you.


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What sets us apart is that the central focus and culture of our department pivots on the patient being at the very center of all that we do, and we circumambulate around that goal.

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She and her family will always be our number-one priority.

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All we do is to serve that purpose and goal.

To that end and to serve that purpose and mission, we strive and have some of the most outstanding clinicians and scientists in the area.
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We're engaged in some of the most advanced and cutting-edge academic research.

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We have state of the art facilities and technologies to help serve our patients and our communities that we're privileged to be a part of and to serve them and their families. Everything that we do centers around that principle of unity in action as a department in executing and bringing our best for our patients and what is needed to render them the most compassionate, competent care within excellence that we would expect and desire for our own families.


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We're unique in our residency program that includes two campuses, one in the heart of the city of New York at Metropolitan Hospital, which has one of the oldest affiliations between a private medical school and a public hospital in the United States; and also at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla in New York, a little bit outside of the city, the flagship of a 10-hospital system network that serves the entire Hudson Valley with millions of diverse populations.


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Our department is also the regional prenatal center and cares for some of the highest acuity and most complex cases nationwide. We are the home of the Institute for Women's Health and Wellness. That spans across our network, focusing not just on the disease model and intervention but also on health and wellness.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has expanded its core faculty and enhanced its subspecialty services.

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Westchester Medical Center has recently completed a 280,000-square-foot ambulatory care pavilion on our Valhalla campus, which includes state of the art diagnostics and surgical infrastructure for the care of our patients and the training of our residents.

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Our department has a first-rate maternal and fetal services, with a new fetal home that we've just opened. The division of general obstetrics and gynecology also has a brand-new expanded outpatient facilities.

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Our urogynecologic and female pelvic medicine division has also expanded dramatically. We have one of the finest gynecologic oncology services in the region, with advanced clinical research, and a robotic program and minimally invasive program, as well as family-planning services that we are expecting to enroll in a very near future.


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We also have one of the most advanced centers for gynecologic oncology with clinical trials. That is expanded around the network. We have recruited some of the finest robotic and minimally invasive surgeons in developing that program, as well as complex family-planning services, with expansion into reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the near future.

While our central focus is entirely based on patient care, our mission is also to help being part of training the next generation of women's health specialists who will leave their imprint on countless lives.

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We look forward in providing additional information regarding our curriculum and clinical environment that our residents and leadership will be delighted to share with you.


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I am so proud to be here because we have a robust program that also works with the statewide initiative in reducing maternal health disparities and bringing to bear all our resources in education, research, community partnership, and in better understanding the root causes of health disparities and addressing them systematically and as a part of our core mission.


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Ours is the mission to serve, to create an environment for us all, to scale to our best selves and establish an environment where patients can feel and palpate their inherent nobility and right to access the most compassionate, quality, and culturally sensitive care possible.

Welcome to our program and our department. We're excited to share with you our culture of excellence and our unity in action in delivering a care that we would want for our own loved ones and families. Thank you.

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Text: W.M.C. Health Westchester Medical Center Health Network, THANK YOU.

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Hi, Mommy and Daddy.

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This is the coming home you dream about.

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But getting here was something we could have never imagined.

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Everything was going fine with my pregnancy. And

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then at 25 weeks, I started hemorrhaging badly. I was losing more blood than they could transfuse. Losing amniotic fluid.

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As an emergency room nurse in New York City, I knew just how bad my situation was.

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Fortunately, I was taken to Westchester Medical Center, where they have the most advanced care in the Hudson Valley for high-risk pregnancies and premature babies. Being in the right place made all the difference.

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They were able to stabilize my condition, and even though Nasya was just 1 and 1/2 pounds when she came into this world, 5 months later, she was nearly 6 pounds and ready to come home.

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The care of my wife and daughter received from WMC Health saved both their lives.

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And because we were there, now, we're here.

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