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Kenton, Kimberly
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overview Dr. Kimberly Kenton is a Tenured Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at University of Chicago. She also serves as the Chief of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. She has devoted her 20-year career to improving pelvic floor care for women as a surgeon-scientist and educator. She has built a thriving clinical and surgical program that spans Chicagoland and neighboring states and earned international recognition for her innovative, minimally invasive treatments for women with complex pelvic floor disorders using laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques. Dr. Kenton is a prolific scientist and served in educational leadership roles in all national standard setting and certifying organizations. She has two decades of continuous federal funding from the National Institutes of Health for her paradigm shifting patient-oriented outcomes research and multicenter randomized clinical trials. She is currently the primary investigator on multiple federal grants including the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network, 2 U01, U18, and R01 and authored over 250 peer reviewed publications. Dr. Kenton is a trailblazer in urogynecology and surgical education serving as both a residency program director in Obstetrics & Gynecology and fellowship program director in Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery as well as holding leadership roles in most national and international specialty societies including the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Accreditation Counsel for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Urogynecologic Society, the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons, the International Urogynecologic Association, and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. Dr. Kenton has received numerous national awards for her teaching excellence and mentorship and sponsorship of women in gynecologic surgery. Dr. Kenton earned international recognition for treatment of women with complex pelvic floor disorders and minimally invasive vaginal, laparoscopic, and robotic surgical techniques. Dr. Kenton is committed to improving the quality of life of women with pelvic floor disorders (urinary and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, complications from mesh or gynecologic surgery, and complex fistulas) and possesses substantial expertise in clinical outcomes research, earning a Master of Science in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis at the University of Michigan. She has had continuous National Institutes of Health funding for nearly 20-years and is/was primary investigator on numerous studies, which led to advances in surgical treatment and outcomes for women with urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. Dr. Kenton has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific papers and served on the editorial boards of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Journal of Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Kenton is a trailblazer in urogynecology and surgical education holding leadership roles in most national and international specialty societies including the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Accreditation Counsel for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Urogynecologic Society, the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons, the International Urogynecologic Association, and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists.
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Concept Prolapse
Concept Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Concept Urinary Bladder, Overactive
Concept Urinary Incontinence, Urge
Concept Urinary Incontinence, Stress
Concept Uterine Prolapse
Academic Article The Refractory Overactive Bladder: Sacral NEuromodulation vs. BoTulinum Toxin Assessment: ROSETTA trial.
Academic Article Colpocleisis: a safe, minimally invasive option for pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article Treatment of vaginal cuff evisceration.
Academic Article Quality of life in women who use pessaries for longer than 12 months.
Academic Article In reply.
Academic Article One-Year Outcomes After Minimally Invasive Sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Anal Penetrative Intercourse as a Risk Factor for Fecal Incontinence.
Academic Article Activity Restriction Recommendations and Outcomes After Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Academic Article Surgical Updates in the Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Academic Article Perioperative complications following colpocleisis with and without concomitant vaginal hysterectomy.
Academic Article Reliability and validity of the Tigrigna version of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory-Short Form 20 (PFDI-20) and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire-7 (PFIQ-7).
Academic Article Concomitant Repair of Pelvic Floor Disorders in Women Undergoing Surgery for Gynecologic Malignancies.
Academic Article Does a Hysterectomy Hurt? Comparing Narcotic Requirements and Pain Scores in Patients Undergoing Apical Prolapse Repair With or Without Hysterectomy.
Academic Article Permanent Compared With Absorbable Suture for Vaginal Mesh Fixation During Total Hysterectomy and Sacrocolpopexy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Academic Article Impact of a Web-Based Decisional Aid on Satisfaction in Women Undergoing Prolapse Surgery.
Academic Article Evaluating the association of same-day discharge following minimally invasive surgery for prolapse on 30-day postoperative adverse events.
Academic Article Historical and Forecasted Changes in Utilization of Same-day Discharge after Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy.
Academic Article Mesh complications after total vs supracervical laparoscopic hysterectomy at time of minimally invasive sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Patient-selected goals: a new perspective on surgical outcome.
Academic Article Basic science and translational research in female pelvic floor disorders: proceedings of an NIH-sponsored meeting.
Academic Article Surgical repair of the middle compartment.
Academic Article Concentric needle electrodes are superior to perineal surface-patch electrodes for electromyographic documentation of urethral sphincter relaxation during voiding.
Academic Article What is a clinician to do-believe the patient or her urinary diary?
Academic Article The global burden of female pelvic floor disorders.
Academic Article Bowel symptoms in women planning surgery for pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article Advanced anterior vaginal wall prolapse is highly correlated with apical prolapse.
Academic Article Patient-selected goals: the fourth dimension in assessment of pelvic floor disorders.
Academic Article The effect of age on short-term outcomes after abdominal surgery for pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article Patient preparedness: an important predictor of surgical outcome.
Academic Article Validation of a real-time urodynamic measure of urinary sensation.
Academic Article The relationship between obstructive sleep apnea, nocturia, and daytime overactive bladder syndrome in women.
Academic Article New pelvic symptoms are common after reconstructive pelvic surgery.
Academic Article Evaluation of urgency in women, with a validated Urgency, Severity and Impact Questionnaire (USIQ).
Academic Article Associated factors and the impact of fecal incontinence in women with urge urinary incontinence: from the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network's Behavior Enhances Drug Reduction of Incontinence study.
Academic Article Outcomes following vaginal prolapse repair and mid urethral sling (OPUS) trial--design and methods.
Academic Article Incontinence pessaries: size, POPQ measures, and successful fitting.
Academic Article Tolterodine causes measurable restoration of urethral sensation in women with urge urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Changes in sexual function after treatment for prolapse are related to the improvement in body image perception.
Academic Article Urodynamics, the supine empty bladder stress test, and incontinence severity.
Academic Article Prevalence of bowel symptoms in women with pelvic floor disorders.
Academic Article Correlates and predictors of patient satisfaction with drug therapy and combined drug therapy and behavioral training for urgency urinary incontinence in women.
Academic Article Factors associated with quality of life in women undergoing surgery for stress urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Solifenacin objectively decreases urinary sensation in women with overactive bladder syndrome.
Academic Article Validation of the surgical pain scales in women undergoing pelvic reconstructive surgery.
Academic Article Validation of the activities assessment scale in women undergoing pelvic reconstructive surgery.
Academic Article Condition-specific quality of life 24 months after retropubic and transobturator sling surgery for stress urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Treatment success of retropubic and transobturator mid urethral slings at 24 months.
Academic Article The pelvic floor complication scale: a new instrument for reconstructive pelvic surgery.
Academic Article Risk factors for 30-day perioperative complications after Le Fort colpocleisis.
Academic Article Venous thromboembolism in reconstructive pelvic surgery.
Academic Article What Is New in Pelvic Organ Prolapse?: Best Articles From the Past Year.
Academic Article Effect of anesthesia type on perioperative outcomes with a midurethral sling.
Academic Article Postoperative appointments: which ones count?
Academic Article Operating Room Efficiency: Examining the Impact of Personnel Handoffs.
Academic Article FACE: Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Awareness Campaign: Increasing Exposure.
Academic Article Bowel function, sexual function, and symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse in women with and without urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Mental Health, Sleep and Physical Function in Treatment Seeking Women with Urinary Incontinence.
Academic Article Restricted Convalescence Following Urogynecologic Procedures: 1-Year Outcomes From a Randomized Controlled Study.
Academic Article Treat or Wait? Natural Perioperative Course of Overactive Bladder Symptoms at the Time of Midurethral Sling Placement.
Academic Article Fibroids and Urinary Symptoms Study (FUSS).
Academic Article Adding Insult to Injury: Levator Ani Avulsion in Women With Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries.
Academic Article Concurrent Retropubic Midurethral Sling and OnabotulinumtoxinA for Mixed Urinary Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Academic Article Satisfaction with a rechargeable sacral neuromodulation system-A secondary analysis of the ARTISAN-SNM study.
Academic Article Racial disparities in complications and costs after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article Foreword: An Evidenced Based Approach to Urinary Incontinence in Women: What's New?
Academic Article Predictors of postoperative complications from stress urinary incontinence procedures: a NSQIP database study.
Academic Article Long-Term Pain After Minimally Invasive Total Hysterectomy and Sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Open Burch urethropexy has a low rate of perioperative complications.
Academic Article Uncomplicated erosion of polytetrafluoroethylene grafts into the rectum.
Academic Article Multiple foreign body erosions after laparoscopic colposuspension with mesh.
Academic Article Sexual activity predicts continued pessary use.
Academic Article Striated urethral sphincter activity does not alter urethral pressure during filling cystometry.
Academic Article Anal incontinence in women presenting for gynecologic care: prevalence, risk factors, and impact upon quality of life.
Academic Article Repeat cesarean section and primary elective cesarean section: recently trained obstetrician-gynecologist practice patterns and opinions.
Academic Article Localization of the urge to void in patients with painful bladder syndrome.
Academic Article Peripartum urinary incontinence in a racially diverse obstetrical population.
Academic Article Patient-centered surgical outcomes: the impact of goal achievement and urge incontinence on patient satisfaction one year after surgery.
Academic Article Neural pain after uterosacral ligament vaginal suspension.
Academic Article Recurrent stress incontinence is associated with decreased neuromuscular function in the striated urethral sphincter.
Academic Article The volume at which women leak first on urodynamic testing is not associated with quality of life, measures of urethral integrity or surgical failure.
Academic Article Burch colposuspension versus fascial sling to reduce urinary stress incontinence.
Academic Article Women who experience detrusor overactive at lower bladder volumes report greater bother.
Academic Article Correlation of Q-tip values and point Aa in stress-incontinent women.
Academic Article Aging and overactive bladder may be associated with loss of urethral sensation in women.
Academic Article Obstructive voiding symptoms are not predictive of elevated postvoid residual urine volumes.
Academic Article Urinary incontinence prevalence: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Academic Article Predictors of treatment failure 24 months after surgery for stress urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Medical record documentation of peripartum urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Mixed incontinence is more bothersome than pure incontinence subtypes.
Academic Article Behavioral therapy to enable women with urge incontinence to discontinue drug treatment: a randomized trial.
Academic Article Prevalence of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in US women.
Academic Article Urinary retention is uncommon after colpocleisis with concomitant mid-urethral sling.
Academic Article Complications in women undergoing Burch colposuspension versus autologous rectus fascial sling for stress urinary incontinence.
Academic Article The questionnaire for urinary incontinence diagnosis (QUID): validity and responsiveness to change in women undergoing non-surgical therapies for treatment of stress predominant urinary incontinence.
Academic Article The impact of obesity on urinary incontinence symptoms, severity, urodynamic characteristics and quality of life.
Academic Article Obliterative procedures for pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article The effects of drug and behavior therapy on urgency and voiding frequency.
Academic Article Retropubic versus transobturator midurethral slings for stress incontinence.
Academic Article Measurement of transurethral bladder neck displacement during tension-free vaginal tape procedure.
Academic Article Baseline urodynamic predictors of treatment failure 1 year after mid urethral sling surgery.
Academic Article Reliability and responsiveness of the Urgency Severity and Life Impact Questionnaire (USIQ).
Academic Article Continent women have better urethral neuromuscular function than those with stress incontinence.
Academic Article Association of baseline urodynamic measures of urethral function with clinical, demographic, and other urodynamic variables in women prior to undergoing midurethral sling surgery.
Academic Article Utility of preoperative endometrial assessment in asymptomatic women undergoing hysterectomy for pelvic floor dysfunction.
Academic Article Pelvic floor symptoms improve similarly after pessary and behavioral treatment for stress incontinence.
Academic Article Current Use of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification by AUGS and ICS Members.
Academic Article A midurethral sling to reduce incontinence after vaginal prolapse repair.
Academic Article Robotic/laparoscopic prolapse repair: role of hysteropexy: a urogynecology perspective.
Academic Article Sacral neuromodulation effects on periurethral sensation and urethral sphincter activity.
Academic Article Adherence to behavioral interventions for stress incontinence: rates, barriers, and predictors.
Academic Article Pre-operative urodynamics in women with stress urinary incontinence increases physician confidence, but does not improve outcomes.
Academic Article 5-year longitudinal followup after retropubic and transobturator mid urethral slings.
Academic Article Anal Sphincter Injuries After Operative Vaginal Versus Spontaneous Delivery-Is There a Difference in Postpartum Symptoms?
Academic Article Outcomes in 450 Women After Minimally Invasive Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Academic Article What impacts patient satisfaction with reconstructive pelvic surgery?
Academic Article Recovering sexual satisfaction after prolapse surgery: a secondary analysis of surgical recovery.
Academic Article Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Women With Female Genital Mutilation.
Academic Article Truth or Myth: Intra-abdominal Pressure Increases in the Lithotomy Position.
Academic Article Mind the Gap: Changes in Levator Dimensions After Sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article The First Injection: Rates of Urinary Retention in Women With Urgency Incontinence Treated With Intravesical OnabotulinumtoxinA Injection.
Academic Article Translation and validation of the Polish version of the Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire short form 7.
Academic Article Neuromuscular urethral function and urethral urodynamic parameters between urgency and stress incontinence do not differ.
Academic Article Vaginal Electrical Stimulation for Postpartum Neuromuscular Recovery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Academic Article Patients' pelvic goals change after initial urogynecologic consultation.
Academic Article Bowel symptoms in women 1 year after sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Prevalence and risk factors of fecal incontinence in women undergoing stress incontinence surgery.
Academic Article Botulinum toxin: new option for refractory lower urinary tract symptoms in women.
Academic Article Sacrocolpopexy without concomitant posterior repair improves posterior compartment defects.
Academic Article Clinically useful measures in women with mixed urinary incontinence.
Academic Article Obesity and outcomes after sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Magnetic resonance assessment of pelvic anatomy and pelvic floor disorders after childbirth.
Academic Article Graft use in transvaginal pelvic organ prolapse repair: a systematic review.
Academic Article Observations relating to urinary sensation during detrusor overactivity.
Academic Article Sexual function is related to body image perception in women with pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article Are we missing an opportunity to teach future physicians about female pelvic floor disorders?
Academic Article Pelvic organ support among primiparous women in the first year after childbirth.
Academic Article Risk factors associated with urge incontinence after continence surgery.
Academic Article Adherence to behavioral interventions for urge incontinence when combined with drug therapy: adherence rates, barriers, and predictors.
Academic Article Complex repetitive discharges--a feature of the urethral continence mechanism or a pathological finding?
Academic Article Effects of concomitant surgeries during midurethral slings (MUS) on postoperative complications, voiding dysfunction, continence outcomes, and urodynamic variables.
Academic Article A randomized trial of urodynamic testing before stress-incontinence surgery.
Academic Article The effect of urodynamic testing on clinical diagnosis, treatment plan and outcomes in women undergoing stress urinary incontinence surgery.
Academic Article Where do we place the sacrocolpopexy stitch? A magnetic resonance imaging investigation.
Academic Article Patient recall 6 weeks after surgical consent for midurethral sling using mesh.
Academic Article Robotic compared with laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy: a randomized controlled trial.
Academic Article What is new in the evaluation and treatment of urinary incontinence? Best articles from the past year.
Academic Article Cosmetic Appearance of Port-site Scars 1 Year After Laparoscopic Versus Robotic Sacrocolpopexy: A Supplementary Study of the ACCESS Clinical Trial.
Academic Article Factors Associated With Timing of Return to Intercourse After Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries.
Academic Article The Promise of PROMIS in Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Academic Article Rates of Sling Procedures and Revisions-A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database Study.
Academic Article Sexual Function after Minimally Invasive Total Hysterectomy and Sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Prevalence of pelvic organ prolapse among US racial populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based screening studies.
Academic Article International Urogynecological Consultation: clinical definition of pelvic organ prolapse.
Academic Article How Does the Urethra Respond to Bladder Filling in Continent and Incontinent Women?
Academic Article Outcomes of vaginal and laparoscopic hysterectomy with concomitant pelvic reconstructive surgery.
Academic Article Ultrasound-Measured Urethral Length Does Not Change following Minimally Invasive Sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Academic Article Phenotyping of Urinary Urgency Patients Without Urgency Incontinence, and Their Comparison to Urgency Incontinence Patients: Findings From the LURN Study.
Academic Article Inequities in Filled Overactive Bladder Medication Prescriptions in the US.
Academic Article Relationships Between Urinary and Nonurinary Symptoms in Treatment-Seeking Women in LURN.
Academic Article Use of a Computerized Decisional Analysis Tool in Patients With Urgency Urinary Incontinence.
Academic Article An observational, patient-reported outcome study of sleep quality and depression among individuals with overactive bladder syndrome.
Grant Abdominal Colpopexy: Comparison of Endoscopic Surgical Strategies (ACCESS)
Academic Article Long-Term Mesh Exposure 5 Years Following Minimally Invasive Total Hysterectomy and Sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article Short-term outcomes of single port robotic hysterectomy with concomitant sacrocolpopexy.
Academic Article A randomized trial of retropubic vs single-incision sling among patients undergoing vaginal prolapse repair.
Academic Article Structural Changes in Brain White Matter Tracts Associated With Overactive Bladder Revealed by Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Findings From a Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network Cross-Sectional Case-Control Study.
Academic Article Relationship between levator ani contraction and motor unit activation in the urethral sphincter.
Academic Article Urinary Incontinence in Primary Care-The Gap Between Recommendations and Real World.
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