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Charles R. Rardin

Charles R. Rardin

🇺🇸 United States🏥 Women & Infants Hospital/Brown University, Providence, RI

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; surgeon, Women & Infants Hospital12
  • Medical school University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry31
  • Residency Obstetrics and gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center31
  • Fellowship Urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery, Mount Auburn Hospital and Harvard Medical School, with Neeraj Kohli45
  • Leadership Director, Brown's Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery12
  • Leadership President, American Urogynecologic Society (2017–2018)6

Contributions​

  • Uterine-preserving hysteropexy parallel cohort study (2017). Co-authored an eight-center comparison of vaginal mesh hysteropexy and laparoscopic sacral hysteropexy that received an AUGS surgical paper award.7
  • SUPeR trial design and surgical supervision (2019). Contributed to the design and supervision of the multicenter trial comparing mesh hysteropexy with hysterectomy and uterosacral suspension.8

Footnotes​

  1. Urogynecology and Pelvic Floor Disorders. Women & Infants Hospital. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. Leadership. Brown University. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  3. Charles R. Rardin, MD. Brown University Health. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  4. Dr. Vivian Sung Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Accessed October 2026. ↩

  5. bostonurogyn.com (KohliCV2022). Accessed October 2026. ↩

  6. Past Presidents. AUGS. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  7. Gutman RE, Rardin CR, Sokol ER, et al. "Vaginal and laparoscopic mesh hysteropexy for uterovaginal prolapse: a parallel cohort study." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2017;216(1):38.e1–38.e11. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2016.08.035 ↩

  8. Nager CW, Visco AG, Richter HE, et al. "Effect of Vaginal Mesh Hysteropexy vs Vaginal Hysterectomy With Uterosacral Ligament Suspension on Treatment Failure in Women With Uterovaginal Prolapse." JAMA. 2019;322(11):1054. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.12812 ↩