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Linda Brubaker

Linda Brubaker

🇺🇸 United States🏥 UC San DiegoMD MS
Role
Founder, Brubaker School (Loyola)
Trainees (4)
🇺🇸 Cheryl B. Iglesia · 1997🇺🇸 Kimberly Kenton · 2002🇺🇸 Sangeeta T. Mahajan · 2005🇺🇸 Elizabeth Mueller

Training and career​

  • Current position Emeritus, UC San Diego urogynecology division (retirement announced 2025)12; clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive sciences, UC San Diego3
  • Former position Dean, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine4
  • Medical school Rush University4
  • Residency Rush University4
  • Fellowship Rush University4
  • Leadership President, American Urogynecologic Society; president, Society of Gynecologic Surgeons4

Key Publications​

Her cited work covers pelvic organ prolapse repair and stress urinary incontinence, including studies of sacrocolpopexy with Burch colposuspension, Burch versus fascial sling surgery, and the OPTIMAL apical repair trial. The citations also include a trial comparing a continence pessary with behavioral therapy.P3P4P5P6P7

  1. Brubaker L, Cundiff GW, Fine P, et al. "Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy with Burch Colposuspension to Reduce Urinary Stress Incontinence." N Engl J Med. 2006;354(15):1557–1566. doi

    CARE trial (2006). Led a randomized trial finding that Burch colposuspension during abdominal sacrocolpopexy reduced postoperative stress urinary incontinence.

    Cited on: Burch Colposuspension · POP Overview · Sacrocolpopexy
  2. Wolfe AJ, Toh E, Shibata N, et al. "Evidence of Uncultivated Bacteria in the Adult Female Bladder." J Clin Microbiol. 2012;50(4):1376–1383. doi

    Bacteria in the adult female bladder (2012). Senior-authored a study detecting bacterial DNA in bladder samples from women, challenging the assumption that the female bladder is sterile.

    Cited on: Recurrent UTI in Women
  3. Jelovsek JE, Barber MD, Brubaker L, et al. Effect of uterosacral ligament suspension vs sacrospinous ligament fixation with or without perioperative behavioral therapy on outcomes at 5 years in the OPTIMAL randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2018;319:1554–1565. doi
    Cited on: Apical Prolapse · POP Overview · Michigan Four-Wall Sacrospinous Ligament Suspension
  4. Barber MD, Brubaker L, Burgio KL, et al. "Comparison of 2 Transvaginal Surgical Approaches and Perioperative Behavioral Therapy for Apical Vaginal Prolapse: The OPTIMAL Randomized Trial." JAMA. 2014;311(10):1023-1034. doi
    Cited on: Anterior Compartment Prolapse · Apical Prolapse · Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation (SSLF)
  5. Nygaard I, Brubaker L, Zyczynski HM, et al. Long-Term Outcomes Following Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Organ Prolapse. JAMA. 2013;309(19):2016-2024. doi
    Cited on: Polypropylene Mesh · Apical Prolapse · Sacrocolpopexy
  6. Brubaker L, Richter HE, Norton PA, et al. Five Year Continence Rates, Satisfaction and Adverse Events of Burch Urethropexy and Fascial Sling Surgery for Urinary Incontinence. J Urol. 2012;187:1324–1330. doi
    Cited on: Autologous Rectus Fascia · Raz-Pereyra Trocar · Autologous Fascial Pubovaginal Sling (PVS)
  7. Albo ME, Richter HE, Brubaker L, et al. Burch Colposuspension versus Fascial Sling to Reduce Urinary Stress Incontinence. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:2143–2155. doi
    Cited on: Autologous Rectus Fascia · Autologous Fascial Pubovaginal Sling (PVS) · Burch Colposuspension

Other Publications Cited on WARWIKI

23 additional publications with Linda Brubaker as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Lukacz ES, Santiago-Lastra Y, Albo ME, Brubaker L. Urinary incontinence in women: a review. JAMA. 2017;318(16):1592–1604. doi
    Cited on: Anticholinergic / Antimuscarinic Agents · Mixed Urinary Incontinence · Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female)
  2. Norton P, Brubaker L. "Urinary Incontinence in Women." Lancet. 2006;367(9504):57–67. doi
    Cited on: Female Urethra · Imipramine · Tricyclic Antidepressants
  3. Brubaker L, Brown MB, Weber AM. Corrections to report of a trial of Burch colposuspension. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:2295. doi
    Cited on: Burch Colposuspension · Sacrocolpopexy · Principles of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair
  4. Nager CW, Brubaker L, Litman HJ, et al. "A Randomized Trial of Urodynamic Testing before Stress-Incontinence Surgery." N Engl J Med. 2012;366(21):1987–1997. doi
    Cited on: Urodynamics · VALUE: Value of Urodynamic Evaluation Before Stress-Incontinence Surgery · Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female)
  5. Visco AG, Brubaker L, Richter HE, Nygaard I, Paraiso MFR, Menefee SA, et al. "Anticholinergic therapy vs. onabotulinumtoxinA for urgency urinary incontinence." N Engl J Med. 2012;367(19):1803-1813. doi
    Cited on: Intradetrusor OnabotulinumtoxinA · ABC: Anticholinergic Versus Botulinum Toxin Comparison
  6. Brubaker L, Norton PA, Albo ME, et al. "Adverse Events over Two Years after Retropubic or Transobturator Midurethral Sling Surgery: Findings from the Trial of Midurethral Slings (TOMUS) Study." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2011;205(5):498.e1-498.e6. doi
    Cited on: Transobturator Mid-Urethral Sling · TOMUS: Trial of Mid-Urethral Slings
  7. Richter HE, Burgio KL, Brubaker L, et al. Continence pessary compared with behavioral therapy or combined therapy for stress incontinence: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2010;115(3):609-617. doi
    Cited on: Continence Pessary · ATLAS: Ambulatory Treatments for Leakage Associated with Stress Incontinence
  8. Visco AG, Brubaker L, Nygaard I, Richter HE, Cundiff G, Fine P, et al. "The Role of Preoperative Urodynamic Testing in Stress-Continent Women Undergoing Sacrocolpopexy: The Colpopexy and Urinary Reduction Efforts (CARE) Randomized Surgical Trial." Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 2008;19(5):607-614. doi
    Cited on: POP Overview · CARE: Colpopexy and Urinary Reduction Efforts
  9. Jung CE, Chen LH, Brubaker LT, Menefee SA. "Urinary Tract Infections After Urogynecologic Surgery: Risk Factors, Timeline, and Uropathogens." Urogynecology (Phila). 2023;29(7):632-640. doi
    Cited on: Anterior Compartment Prolapse
  10. Barber MD, Brubaker L, Nygaard I, et al. "Pain and activity after vaginal reconstructive surgery for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019;221(3):233.e1-233.e16. doi
    Cited on: Michigan Four-Wall Sacrospinous Ligament Suspension
  11. Lowder JL, Brubaker L. "Sunsetting the 2018 AUGS Best-Practice Statement on Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection." Urogynecology (Phila). 2026;32(7):773–774. doi
    Cited on: Recurrent UTI in Women
  12. Taege SK, Adams W, Mueller ER, Brubaker L, Fitzgerald CM, Brincat C. Anesthetic cream use during office pessary removal and replacement: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2017;130(1):190-197. doi
    Cited on: Prolapse Pessaries

Footnotes​

  1. Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. UCSD-Fimbria-Quarterly-VOL22.pdf. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  3. Linda Brubaker. UCSD Profiles. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. ICS. Prof Linda Brubaker. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5