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Clifford Wai

Clifford Wai

🇺🇸 United States🏥 UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Mentored by · fellowship 2003
Joseph Schaffer

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, UT Southwestern Medical Center; practicing at Parkland Health1
  • Medical school Georgetown University Medical Center School of Medicine (medical degree)1
  • Residency Obstetrics and gynecology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (completed 2000)1
  • Fellowship Three-year female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery fellowship, UT Southwestern, with Joseph Schaffer (completed 2003)1
  • Leadership Director, UT Southwestern's Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship (2009–2024)1

Known for​

  • Childbirth-related anal sphincter injury research (2008). Led an animal-model study measuring how vaginal distention and repaired sphincter transection affect external anal sphincter function.2
  • Patient satisfaction after midurethral sling surgery (2013). Led a planned analysis of satisfaction after retropubic and transobturator slings in a multicenter randomized trial.3

Cited on WARWIKI

2 publications with Clifford Wai 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. Pan ET, Belmonte BM, Wai CY, Balgobin S. "Optimizing use of a uterine manipulator for laparoscopic hysterectomy: a cadaveric study of distances to the pelvic ureter." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2025;S0002-9378(25)00398–9. doi
    Cited on: Uterine Manipulators
  2. Wai CY, Corton MM, Miller M, Sailors J, Schaffer JI. "Multiple vaginal wall cysts: diagnosis and surgical management." Obstet Gynecol. 2004;103(5 Pt 2):1099–1102. doi
    Cited on: Vaginal Cysts and Masses

Footnotes​

  1. Clifford Wai, M.D.. UT Southwestern. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Wai CY, Miller RT, Word RA. "Effect of Prolonged Vaginal Distention and Sphincter Transection on Physiologic Function of the External Anal Sphincter in an Animal Model." 2008;111(2):332–340. doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e318162f6a7 ↩

  3. Wai CY, Curto TM, Zyczynski HM, et al. "Patient Satisfaction After Midurethral Sling Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence." 2013;121(5):1009–1016. doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e31828ca49e ↩