Associate Professor
Columbia University
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Dr. Yurteri-Kaplan is fellowship trained and board certified in urogynecology and obstetrics and gynecology. She completed her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey. She then went to complete her fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center / MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. During that time she was awarded a full scholarship and completed a masters in Clinical and Translational Research at Georgetown. She is currently the Section Director of Urogynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
She has published many peer reviewed articles on her research and has presented nationally on pelvic floor disorders. She sat on the American Urogynecologic Society’s systematic review subcommittee and is currently on the Society for Gynecologic Surgeons systematic review committee. She was Chair of the Pelvic Floor Disorders Research Registry (PFDR-R) for the American Urogynecologic Society which has just completed and published its data regarding registry outcomes over the last 3 years. She has a particular interest in ergonomics collaborating with ergnomics experts nation wide on this critical topic.