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Gunhilde M. Buchsbaum

Gunhilde M. Buchsbaum

🇺🇸 United States🏥 University of Rochester Medical CenterMD, MBA

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry1
  • Medical school Saint Louis University School of Medicine (1989)1
  • Residency Obstetrics and gynecology, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1989–1993)1
  • Fellowship Urogynecology and pelvic floor reconstructive surgery, University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital (1993–1995)1
  • Graduate degree MBA, University of Rochester Simon School of Business (2015)1
  • Leadership Director of urogynecology, University of Rochester Medical Center (2012)2
  • Fellows trained Senior author on research with Rochester fellowship graduates of 2006 to 2016, including Erin Duecy, James Pulvino, Anna McNanley, Paula Doyle and Amy Collins13

Contributions​

Her research includes sister-pair studies of parity and pelvic floor disorders, vaginal reconstructive surgery under local anesthesia with sedation, and intraoperative cystoscopy dyes.4567

  • Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women and their parous sisters (2005). Led a study of 143 postmenopausal sister pairs in which urinary incontinence was reported by 47.6% of nulliparous and 49.7% of parous sisters, with high concordance of continence status within pairs.4
  • Local anesthesia with sedation for vaginal reconstructive surgery (2006). Led a series in which 98 of 127 candidates chose local anesthesia with sedation for prolapse operations including colpocleisis and LeFort procedures; none required conversion to general anesthesia.5
  • Anaphylaxis after intravenous fluorescein for cystoscopy (2018). Senior author of a case report of anaphylactic shock after intravenous sodium fluorescein given to assess ureteral efflux during urethrolysis and cystoscopy.7 Cited on WARWIKI: Sodium Fluorescein, Intraoperative Visualization Agents.

Cited on WARWIKI

2 publications with Gunhilde M. Buchsbaum 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. Doyle PJ, Lipetskaia L, Duecy E, Buchsbaum G, Wood RW. "Sodium fluorescein use during intraoperative cystoscopy." Obstet Gynecol. 2015;125(3):548–550. doi
    Cited on: Intraoperative Visualization Agents · Indigo Carmine · Sodium Fluorescein
  2. Lee T, Sanderson D, Doyle P, Buchsbaum G. "Anaphylactic shock after intravenous fluorescein administration for intraoperative cystoscopy." Obstet Gynecol. 2018;131(4):727–729. doi
    Cited on: Intraoperative Visualization Agents · Sodium Fluorescein

Footnotes​

  1. Gunhilde M. Buchsbaum, M.D., M.B.A. University of Rochester Medical Center. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Event aims to educate women on maintaining bladder health. University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom. October 25, 2012. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  3. Graduates. Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Fellowship, University of Rochester Medical Center. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. Buchsbaum GM, Duecy EE, Kerr LA, Huang LS, Guzick DS. "Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women and their parous sisters." Obstet Gynecol. 2005;106(6):1253–1258. doi:10.1097/01.AOG.0000187309.46650.b2 ↩ ↩2

  5. Buchsbaum GM, Albushies DT, Schoenecker E, Duecy EE, Glantz JC. "Local anesthesia with sedation for vaginal reconstructive surgery." Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 2006;17(3):211–214. doi:10.1007/s00192-005-1365-7 ↩ ↩2

  6. Doyle PJ, Lipetskaia L, Duecy E, Buchsbaum G, Wood RW. "Sodium fluorescein use during intraoperative cystoscopy." Obstet Gynecol. 2015;125(3):548–550. doi:10.1097/AOG.0000000000000675 ↩

  7. Lee T, Sanderson D, Doyle P, Buchsbaum G. "Anaphylactic shock after intravenous fluorescein administration for intraoperative cystoscopy." Obstet Gynecol. 2018;131(4):727–729. doi:10.1097/AOG.0000000000002519 ↩ ↩2