An Interview With Dr. Robert Moore

Q&A With Noted Interstitial Cystitis Doctor

Dr Robert D. Moore is an internationally recognized Laparoscopic and Vaginal Reconstructive Surgeon and received his medical degree from the University of New England in 1994 where he graduated top in his class. While at the University he was involved with neurologic and neuroscience pain research, receiving multiple grants and publishing in this complex field. He completed a four year residency in Ob/Gyn at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME and then completed a two year fellowship in Urogynecology and Radical Pelvic Surgery at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Following this, he completed another year of advanced training in Laparoscopic Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. Following fellowship, he returned to Maine for approximately 2 years where he was the only fellowship trained urogynecologist in the state and was considered one of the regions top laparoscopic surgeons, even at this early stage of his career.

Dr Moore is currently the Director of Advanced Pelvic Surgery and the Co-Director of Urogynecology at the Atlanta Center for Laparoscopic Urogynecology. He has held and continues to maintain teaching appointments with the University of VT, Piedmont Hospital (teaching institution for Emory University) and is faculty/lecturer/consultant for many prominent companies within the field of Urogynecology including: CR Bard Urology, American Medical Systems, U.S. Surgical, Ethicon Endosurgery, Watson Urology, and Innovation in Medical Education and Technology.

Dr Moore is board certified and a Fellow of the American College of Ob/Gyn and the International College of Surgeons. He is member of the American Association of Gyn Laparoscopists, American Urogynecology Society, International Urogynecology Association, and the American Urologic Association.

May 1, 2005
1) Why is IC so hard to get a diagnosis?