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Lewis Wall

🏥 Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Mentored by
Stuart Stanton

Biography​

L. Lewis Wall is professor emeritus of sociocultural anthropology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis.1 He earned his medical degree at the University of Kansas and completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Duke University Medical Center.23 He was a urogynecology fellow at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London with Stuart Stanton and later trained in Manchester with David Warrell.23 He founded the Worldwide Fistula Fund in 1995.2

Contributions​

His cited papers address obstetric fistula as a public health problem and approaches to its prevention in low-resource settings. They also examine the history of J. Marion Sims, the Sims speculum and position, and the ethics of nineteenth-century fistula surgery.45678

Cited on WARWIKI

6 publications with Lewis Wall 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. Wall LL. "Obstetric vesicovaginal fistula as an international public-health problem." Lancet. 2006;368(9542):1201–1209. doi
    Cited on: Obstetric Fistula · Vesicovaginal Fistula · Conservative Management of Vesicovaginal Fistula
  2. Wall LL. "The Sims position and the Sims vaginal speculum, re-examined." Int Urogynecol J. 2021;32(10):2595–601. doi
    Cited on: Pederson Speculum · Sims Retractor
  3. Wall LL. "The controversial Dr. J. Marion Sims (1813–1883)." Int Urogynecol J. 2020;31(7):1299–303. doi
    Cited on: Sims Retractor · Transvaginal Sims-Simon Multilayered Closure
  4. Wall LL. "Overcoming Phase 1 delays: the critical component of obstetric fistula prevention programs in resource-poor countries." BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2012;12:68. doi
    Cited on: Obstetric Fistula
  5. Wall LL. "Preventing obstetric fistulas in low-resource countries: insights from a Haddon matrix." Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2012;67(2):111–121. doi
    Cited on: Obstetric Fistula
  6. Wall LL. "The medical ethics of Dr J Marion Sims: a fresh look at the historical record." J Med Ethics. 2006;32(6):346–350. [PMID: 16731734]; Wall LL. "J. Marion Sims and the Vesicovaginal Fistula: Historical Understanding, Medical Ethics, and Modern Political Sensibilities." Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2018;24(2):66–75. [PMID: 29474277].
    Cited on: History of Prolapse Surgery & Urogynecology

Footnotes​

  1. L. Lewis Wall. Department of Anthropology. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. L. Lewis Wall, MD, DPhil, MBioeth WashU Medicine. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. 2023-042-001.pdf. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  4. Wall LL. "Obstetric vesicovaginal fistula as an international public-health problem." Lancet. 2006;368(9542):1201–1209. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(06)69476-269476-2)) ↩

  5. Wall LL. "The Sims position and the Sims vaginal speculum, re-examined." Int Urogynecol J. 2021;32(10):2595–601. doi:10.1007/s00192-021-04966-w ↩

  6. Wall LL. "The controversial Dr. J. Marion Sims (1813–1883)." Int Urogynecol J. 2020;31(7):1299–303. doi:10.1007/s00192-020-04301-9 ↩

  7. Wall LL. "Preventing obstetric fistulas in low-resource countries: insights from a Haddon matrix." Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2012;67(2):111–121. doi:10.1097/ogx.0b013e3182438788 ↩

  8. Wall LL. "Overcoming Phase 1 delays: the critical component of obstetric fistula prevention programs in resource-poor countries." BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2012;12:68. doi:10.1186/1471-2393-12-68 ↩