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Kimberly Kenton

Kimberly Kenton

🇺🇸 United States🏥 University of ChicagoMD, MS
Mentored by · fellowship 2002
Linda Brubaker
Trainees (1)
🇺🇸 Margaret Mueller · 2015

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, chief of the Section of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery and vice chair of research, University of Chicago (appointed 2023)12
  • Medical school Rush Medical College12
  • Residency Obstetrics and gynecology, Rush University12
  • Fellowship Urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, Loyola University Medical Center12
  • Graduate degree MS in clinical research design and statistical analysis, University of Michigan1
  • Earlier posts Chief of the Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery and director of the Women's Integrated Pelvic Health Program, Northwestern University1
  • Leadership Residency program director in obstetrics and gynecology and fellowship program director in urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery; board of directors, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2023)1
  • Fellows trained The Northwestern URPS fellowship alumni page lists 11 graduates, beginning with its first ACGME-accredited fellow3

Contributions​

Her work cited on WARWIKI spans Pelvic Floor Disorders Network and Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network studies, including the NHANES estimate of pelvic floor disorder prevalence in US women, and a Loyola study that found uncultivated bacteria in the adult female bladder.456 The American Urogynecologic Society gave her its Raymond A. Lee Award.1

  • Rectocele variability on defecography (1999). Led a fluoroscopic study of 98 women having reconstructive pelvic surgery in which 78% had rectoceles, contrast retention did not match symptoms, and posterior wall prolapse grade did not differ between women with and without rectoceles.7 Cited on WARWIKI: Posterior Compartment Prolapse.
  • Activity restrictions after prolapse surgery (2021). Senior author of the 1-year follow-up of the ReCOUP trial, in which satisfaction (86.8% liberal vs 95.6% restricted) and anatomic failure (8.8% vs 7.0%) did not differ between liberal and restricted postoperative activity.8 Cited on WARWIKI: Sacrocolpopexy.
  • Satisfaction with rechargeable sacral neuromodulation (2021). Senior author of an ARTISAN-SNM secondary analysis in which 68.5% of 124 participants were very satisfied at 1 year and satisfaction tracked diary-measured symptom reduction.9 Cited on WARWIKI: Axonics SNM System.

Cited on WARWIKI

11 publications with Kimberly Kenton 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. Samsel T, Ashmore S, Shi J, Kenton K, Mueller M. "Surgical Management of Pelvic Floor Disorders and the Utility of Preoperative Labs." Int Urogynecol J. 2025. doi
    Cited on: Preoperative Labs
  2. Bretschneider CE, Myers ER, Geller EJ, Kenton KS, Henley BR, Matthews CA. Long-term mesh exposure 5 years following minimally invasive total hysterectomy and sacrocolpopexy. Int Urogynecol J. 2024;35:901-907. doi
    Cited on: Sacrocolpopexy
  3. Geynisman-Tan J, Mueller MG, Kenton KS. Satisfaction With a Rechargeable Sacral Neuromodulation System — a Secondary Analysis of the ARTISAN-SNM Study. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2021;40(1):549-554. doi
    Cited on: Axonics Sacral Neuromodulation Systems
  4. Mueller MG, Collins SA, Lewicky-Gaupp C, Tavathia M, Kenton K. Restricted convalescence following urogynecologic procedures: 1-year outcomes from a randomized controlled study. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2021;27(2):e336-e341. doi
    Cited on: Sacrocolpopexy
  5. Chen YB, Wolff BJ, Kenton KS, Mueller ER. "Approach to ureterovaginal fistula: examining 13 years of experience." Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2019;25(2):e7–e11. doi
    Cited on: Ureterovaginal Fistula
  6. Kenton K, Stoddard AM, Zyczynski H, et al. "5-year longitudinal followup after retropubic and transobturator mid urethral slings." J Urol. 2015;193(1):203–10. doi
    Cited on: Midurethral Sling Trocars (TVT / TOT)
  7. Wolfe AJ, Toh E, Shibata N, Rong R, Kenton K, FitzGerald M, et al. "Evidence of uncultivated bacteria in the adult female bladder." J Clin Microbiol. 2012;50(4):1376-1383. doi
    Cited on: Recurrent UTI in Women
  8. Nager CW, Kraus SR, Kenton K, et al. Urodynamics, the supine empty bladder stress test, and incontinence severity. Neurourol Urodyn. 2010;29(7):1306-1311. doi
    Cited on: Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female)
  9. Ghoniem G, Stanford E, Kenton K, et al. "Evaluation and outcome measures in the treatment of female urinary stress incontinence: International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) guidelines for research and clinical practice." Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 2008;19(1):5-33. doi
    Cited on: Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female)
  10. Nygaard I, Barber MD, Burgio KL, Kenton K, Meikle S, Schaffer J, et al. "Prevalence of Symptomatic Pelvic Floor Disorders in US Women." JAMA. 2008;300(11):1311-1316. doi
    Cited on: POP Overview
  11. Kenton K, Shott S, Brubaker L. "The Anatomic and Functional Variability of Rectoceles in Women." Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 1999;10(2):96-99. doi
    Cited on: Posterior Compartment Prolapse

Footnotes​

  1. Dr. Kimberly Kenton appointed Chief of the Section of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. University of Chicago Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. May 26, 2023. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. Kimberly Kenton, MD, MS. UChicago Medicine. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. URPS Fellowship Alumni. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. Nygaard I, Barber MD, Burgio KL, Kenton K, Meikle S, Schaffer J, et al. "Prevalence of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in US women." JAMA. 2008;300(11):1311–1316. doi:10.1001/jama.300.11.1311 ↩

  5. Nager CW, Kraus SR, Kenton K, et al. "Urodynamics, the supine empty bladder stress test, and incontinence severity." Neurourol Urodyn. 2010;29(7):1306–1311. doi:10.1002/nau.20836 ↩

  6. Wolfe AJ, Toh E, Shibata N, Rong R, Kenton K, FitzGerald M, et al. "Evidence of uncultivated bacteria in the adult female bladder." J Clin Microbiol. 2012;50(4):1376–1383. doi:10.1128/JCM.05852-11 ↩

  7. Kenton K, Shott S, Brubaker L. "The anatomic and functional variability of rectoceles in women." Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 1999;10(2):96–99. doi:10.1007/pl00004019 ↩

  8. Mueller MG, Collins SA, Lewicky-Gaupp C, Tavathia M, Kenton K. "Restricted convalescence following urogynecologic procedures: 1-year outcomes from a randomized controlled study." Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2021;27(2):e336–e341. doi:10.1097/SPV.0000000000000922 ↩

  9. Geynisman-Tan J, Mueller MG, Kenton KS. "Satisfaction with a rechargeable sacral neuromodulation system: a secondary analysis of the ARTISAN-SNM study." Neurourol Urodyn. 2021;40(1):549–554. doi:10.1002/nau.24596 ↩