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DR. KARANVIR VIRK JOINS CENTER FOR
WOMEN’S CARE & REPRODUCTIVE SURGERY FOR MEDICAL FELLOWSHIP
Awarded best overall graduating
resident by faculty at
St.
Peters University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, Karanvir Virk, MD, is
now doing a Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at the
Center for Women’s Care & Reproductive Surgery in Atlanta. Having
emigrated from India to the US in 2005, Dr. Virk scored in the 99th
percentile in Steps 1 and 2 of the U.S. Medical Licensure Exams, and in
the 88th percentile in Step 3.
“Over the past two decades, we
have chosen the highest caliber Fellows possible to train them in
gynecologic laparoscopy,” said Dr. Tom Lyons, medical director of the
Center for Women’s Care. “Dr. Virk is an admirable addition to our
staff.”
Having worked as Medical Officer
at two major hospitals in India before moving to Canada and then the
U.S., Dr. Virk’s research activities include chronic anemia in women of
childbearing ago, and the rate of Cesarean Hysterectomy before and after
the use of Bakri balloon in St. Peters Hospital.
His publications include case
reports on the research above, as well as case reports on congenital
herpes, an unusual case of metastasis of uterine cancer, and
“Ultrasound, MRI and pathology finding of placenta accreta.”
Dr. Virk’s Residency and
Fellowship training includes a preliminary year of surgery at Monmouth
Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, followed by Ob/GYN at St Peters
University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ from 7/7 to 6/11.
He is a member of
the Kaplan Medical Honorary Society in Canada since 2004, and his
community activities include reproductive and child health program
camps, pediatric camps for village children, heart check-up camp for the
elderly and several others.
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01/05/2012
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