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Cynthia D. Hall

Cynthia D. Hall

🇺🇸 United States🏥 UMass Chan Medical SchoolMD

Training and career​

  • Current position Associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, UMass Chan Medical School, Division of Urogynecology, UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, Massachusetts12
  • Program director Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Fellowship, UMass Chan Medical School12
  • Medical school State University of New York (SUNY) Brooklyn1
  • Residency Obstetrics and gynecology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center1
  • Fellowship Urogynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center1
  • Earlier post Director of the Center for Women's Continence and Pelvic Health, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (10 years)1
  • Fellows trained Directs the UMass Chan fellowship, a three-year program with one fellow per year that took its first fellow in 2004 and gained ACGME accreditation in 20142

Contributions​

Her cited work comes from randomized trials of perioperative care in the UMass urogynecology division, on phenazopyridine and voiding after sling and prolapse surgery and on bowel function after prolapse repair. She also works on obstetric fistula repair in Rwanda and Jamaica.1345

  • Phenazopyridine and voiding after midurethral sling (2018). Coauthored the EPIPhANy randomized trial of 88 women having a retropubic midurethral sling, in which preoperative oral phenazopyridine 200 mg did not lower the rate of failed voiding trials (27% vs 21% without it).3
  • Preoperative fiber before prolapse surgery (2022). Coauthored a randomized trial of 71 analyzed patients in which a week of psyllium before prolapse surgery did not shorten the time to first bowel movement (66.5 vs 68.3 hours).4

Footnotes​

  1. UMass Urogynecology Faculty. UMass Chan Medical School. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Message from the Program Director. UMass Chan Medical School Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Fellowship. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Dueñas-Garcia OF, Sierra T, Taylor D, Leung K, Hall CD, Flynn MK. "The effect of oral phenazopyridine on perioperative voiding after midurethral slings (EPIPhANy study)." Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2018;24(2):95–99. doi:10.1097/SPV.0000000000000497 ↩ ↩2

  4. Maheshwari D, Hall CD, Jia X, Tangada A, Wu EK, Leung K, Flynn MK. "The effect of preoperative fiber on postoperative bowel function after pelvic reconstructive surgery: a randomized controlled trial." Urogynecology (Phila). 2022;28(8):554–560. doi:10.1097/SPV.0000000000001203 ↩ ↩2

  5. Sierra T, Taylor DL, Leung K, Hall CD, Flynn MK. "The effect of phenazopyridine on immediate postoperative voiding after prolapse surgery: a randomized controlled trial." Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2021;27(2):85–89. doi:10.1097/SPV.0000000000000737 ↩