Delivering comprehensive women’s health care means being able to treat and care for a wide range of needs, for patients of many different ages. With new additions to its OB/GYN team and new technologies available to support more procedures, UTMB is making advances to become the provider of choice for all aspects of women’s health.
UTMB recently welcomed Sarah Bruce, MD, and Camice Karing, MD, to its women’s health care team at the Clear Lake Campus. Both physicians come to UTMB with training and experience in the full spectrum of women’s health care needs, as well as a deep passion for helping women enjoy healthier lives.
“I really like preventative health and getting to take care of women throughout all the different phases of their life,” Dr. Bruce says. “It’s very specialized, but you get to take care of a lot of different needs, and you get to do different things on a day-to-day basis, which I really enjoy.”
Dr. Bruce earned her medical degree at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia before relocating to the Houston area. She completed her OB/GYN internship and residency at Houston Methodist Hospital.
She says OB/GYN was her first rotation as a third-year medical student, and she liked the specialty immediately. Although she approached her other rotations with an open mind, she says pursuing OB/GYN was a “no-brainer” when the time came to choose her specialty.
Dr. Karing, a Dallas/Fort Worth area native, completed medical school at UTMB before returning to Dallas for her OB/GYN internship and residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Now she is back at UTMB as a provider, citing special interests in adolescent health, family planning, gynecologic surgery, and high-risk obstetrics.
Each day in clinic can look completely different in OB/GYN. Dr. Bruce says she may see well woman and preventive health care visits, contraceptive counseling, gynecological problems, and prenatal visits, as well as in-office procedures for birth control methods like IUD’s and implants; biopsies; and hysteroscopy procedures.
In the operating room, UTMB’s OB/GYN physicians perform hysteroscopy procedures, D&C, and LEEP, which uses a wire loop heated by electric current to remove abnormal cells and tissue. The Clear Lake campus recently acquired its first DaVinci robot, so the OB/GYN team is also excited to expand their case volume and perform more robotic surgeries for complicated hysterectomies, removal of fibroids, and removal of cysts.
Several days a month are also dedicated to labor and delivery, taking care of pregnant patients when they go into labor or for emergency visits.
Dr. Bruce and Dr. Karing are both based at the UTMB Women’s Healthcare Clinic in Clear Lake, which is directly across the parking lot from the Clear Lake Campus Hospital, making it convenient to step into the hospital when needed.
“Clear Lake has become the hub for women’s health care,” Dr. Bruce says. “So I always encourage patients, if they are having something OB/GYN related, and they need to go to a hospital, Clear Lake is a good one to go to.”
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