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Ingrid Nygaard

Ingrid Nygaard

🇺🇸 United States

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Utah1
  • Medical school University of Missouri Health Sciences Center1
  • Residency University of Michigan1
  • Fellowship Advanced gynecologic surgery, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, with Javier Magrina and Jeffrey Cornella2
  • Leadership Past president, American Urogynecologic Society and American Gynecologic and Obstetrical Society1

Known for​

  • National prevalence estimate for symptomatic pelvic floor disorders (2008). Led a US population study estimating the prevalence of symptomatic urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and pelvic organ prolapse.3
  • Lifetime physical activity and stress incontinence study (2015). Examined associations between lifetime activity patterns and stress urinary incontinence in middle-aged women.4

Her work focuses on pelvic floor research rather than clinical practice.1

Contributions​

Her confirmed citations examine pelvic organ prolapse natural history and surgical outcomes, including long-term sacrocolpopexy results and incontinence prevention during prolapse repair. They also cover treatment-response fluctuations after onabotulinumtoxinA and sacral neuromodulation and complications of retropubic incontinence surgery.56789

Cited on WARWIKI

5 publications with Ingrid Nygaard 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. Nygaard I, Brubaker L, Zyczynski HM, et al. Long-Term Outcomes Following Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Organ Prolapse. JAMA. 2013;309(19):2016-2024. doi
    Cited on: Polypropylene Mesh · Apical Prolapse · Sacrocolpopexy
  2. Wei JT, Nygaard I, Richter HE, et al. A midurethral sling to reduce incontinence after vaginal prolapse repair. N Engl J Med. 2012;366(25):2358-2367. doi
    Cited on: POP Overview · Anterior Colporrhaphy
  3. Hendrickson WK, Zhang C, Jelovsek JE, Nygaard IE, Presson AP. "Longitudinal fluctuations in treatment response after onabotulinumtoxinA and sacral neuromodulation for refractory urgency incontinence." J Urol. 2024;211(1):134–143. doi
    Cited on: Botulinum Toxin (Neuromodulation Adjunct)
  4. Bradley CS, Zimmerman MB, Qi Y, Nygaard IE. Natural history of pelvic organ prolapse in postmenopausal women. Obstet Gynecol. 2007;109(4):848-854. doi
    Cited on: POP Overview
  5. Rogers RG, Lebküchner U, Kammerer-Doak DN, Thompson PK, Walters MD, Nygaard IE. Obesity and retropubic surgery for stress incontinence: is there really an increased risk of intraoperative complications? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006;195(6):1794-1798. doi
    Cited on: Burch Colposuspension

Footnotes​

  1. Ingrid E. Nygaard. Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. A Tribute to Ingrid Nygaard, MD, MS, Editor-in-Chief for Gynecology, 2014-2018. PMC. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  3. Nygaard I. "Prevalence of Symptomatic Pelvic Floor Disorders in US Women." JAMA. 2008;300(11):1311. doi:10.1001/jama.300.11.1311 ↩

  4. Nygaard IE, Shaw JM, Bardsley T, et al. "Lifetime physical activity and female stress urinary incontinence." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2015;213(1):40.e1–40.e10. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2015.01.044 ↩

  5. Nygaard I, Brubaker L, Zyczynski HM, et al. Long-Term Outcomes Following Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Organ Prolapse. JAMA. 2013;309(19):2016-2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.4919 ↩

  6. Wei JT, Nygaard I, Richter HE, et al. A midurethral sling to reduce incontinence after vaginal prolapse repair. N Engl J Med. 2012;366(25):2358-2367. doi:10.1056/nejmoa1111967 ↩

  7. Hendrickson WK, Zhang C, Jelovsek JE, Nygaard IE, Presson AP. "Longitudinal fluctuations in treatment response after onabotulinumtoxinA and sacral neuromodulation for refractory urgency incontinence." J Urol. 2024;211(1):134–143. doi:10.1097/ju.0000000000003746 ↩

  8. Bradley CS, Zimmerman MB, Qi Y, Nygaard IE. Natural history of pelvic organ prolapse in postmenopausal women. Obstet Gynecol. 2007;109(4):848-854. doi:10.1097/01.aog.0000255977.91296.5d ↩

  9. Rogers RG, Lebküchner U, Kammerer-Doak DN, Thompson PK, Walters MD, Nygaard IE. Obesity and retropubic surgery for stress incontinence: is there really an increased risk of intraoperative complications? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006;195(6):1794-1798. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2006.07.012 ↩