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Douglass Hale

Douglass Hale

🇺🇸 United States🏥 Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Mentored by · fellowship 1995
J. Thomas Benson

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, Indiana University School of Medicine1
  • Medical school Medical College of Ohio, MD1
  • Fellowship Methodist Hospital of Indiana Graduate Medical Center1
  • Other training Health East Teaching Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital1
  • Leadership Director of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, IU Health1
  • Leadership President, American Urogynecologic Society1

Contributions​

  • Early robotic pelvic floor reconstruction (2002). Performed an early US robotic sacrocolpopexy and senior-authored a subsequent 77-patient technique and outcomes series.2
  • Direction of the first accredited US FPMRS fellowship. Directed the Indianapolis fellowship, identified by AUGS as the first accredited urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery program, for ten years.3

Footnotes​

  1. Douglass S. Hale, MD. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Shariati A, Maceda JS, Hale DS. "Da Vinci Assisted Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy." Journal of Pelvic Medicine and Surgery. 2008;14(3):163–171. doi:10.1097/spv.0b013e3181772d25 ↩

  3. Douglass S. Hale, MD. Accessed October 2026. ↩