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Expert pediatric and adolescent gynecologic care
The Division of Gynecology at Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the premier pediatric and adolescent gynecology centers in the world. We specialize in gynecologic care for patients from infancy to young adulthood, from addressing common concerns such as missed periods, heavy bleeding, pelvic pain, and endometriosis, to managing more complex conditions like congenital anomalies of the reproductive tract. We also provide fetal consultations to expecting families to help ensure exceptional care for suspected congenital anomalies.
Our chief of gynecology, Marc R. Laufer, MD, is also the founder and director of the Boston Center for Endometriosis, the largest endometriosis program in the nation, and co-director of the Center for Young Women’s Health, which helps young teens and their parents learn more about sexual and reproductive health and get timely access to resources and support.
The division is known nationally as a leader in treating Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome and provides a multispecialty team to supply sensitive and age-appropriate counseling and treatment options. Through the Center for Young Women’s Health, we facilitate monthly online chats on MRKH. We also run an annual conference for MRKH patients and families.
In addition, we work closely with the Fertility Preservation Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center to give young patients with cancer a chance to have their own families in the future.
Compassionate care near you
We deliver world-class care with a compassionate approach, using simple, easy-to-understand language to make sure that every child or young adult will feel at ease throughout their health journey.
Our clinicians recognize that children and adolescents are constantly growing and developing — and have different emotional and physical needs at different stages of growth. We’re trained to meet those needs by using the proper tools and diagnostic procedures best suited to your child’s age and comfort level.
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Services we offer
We participate in a number of important partnerships in the local Boston area, as well as across the nation, to ensure our patients have access to the highest quality care and support for their specific situations. These partnerships include:
- Center for Congenital Anomalies of the Reproductive Tract: Provides medical, surgical, obstetric, and psychosocial consultation and care to children, adolescents, and young women with congenital or acquired structural abnormalities of the reproductive tract.
- Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center: Takes a team approach to addressing colorectal and pelvic malformations that affect children from infancy through adolescence. Our patients have access to minimally invasive and robotic procedures not typically offered elsewhere.
- Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center’s Fertility Preservation Program: Ensures that fertility consultation and discussion of preservation options are integrated into the patient and family education of all newly diagnosed cancer patients.
- Boston Center for Endometriosis: Focuses on providing world-class clinical care by specialists from multiple disciplines, as well as age-appropriate educational resources. It’s also a hub for research advancement, including a biorepository for intervention and observational studies.
- Young Women with Bleeding Clinic, through the Boston Bleeding Disorders Center, brings together gynecology, adolescent medicine, and hematology to take a collaborative approach to diagnosing and treating patients with heavy menstrual bleeding.
- The Vulvovaginal Health Program provides specialty care to children and young adults with acute and chronic vulvar and vaginal disorders. Our highly trained, compassionate team works closely with patients and their families as we move through the diagnostic process to help find relief from distressing symptoms of itching, burning, pain, discharge, constipation, and urinary discomfort.
- BEING-U Clinic: Brings together experts in behavioral health, endocrinology, and urology to support children with differences/disorders of sex development (DSD) and guides families through the process of accessing care for a variety of concerns and needs.
- The Center for Young Women's Health is a partnership between the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Boston Children’s dedicated to helping teens, their parents, educators, and health care providers improve their understanding of normal health and development, as well as of specific diseases and conditions.
Conditions we treat
We offer our compassionate, tailored care geared to each patient’s diagnosis so they can access the best treatment for their specific symptoms and needs.
Specialty areas include:
- Congenital anomalies
- Endometriosis
- Fertility preservation
- LARC (long-acting reversible contraception)
- Menstrual irregularities
- MRKH
- Pap smear evaluation
- Vulvar and vaginal health
Why choose Boston Children’s gynecology
Our team of highly trained experts — including physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, and nurses — work across multiple disciplines, partnering with colleagues in a range of programs at Boston Children’s. Together, we provide the most comprehensive and coordinated strategies to treat the whole person and address their specific situation.
Our clinicians are also involved in a number of multi-specialty programs including:
- Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center
- Center for Gender Health
- BEING-U clinic
- Boston Bleeding Disorders Center/Young Women with Bleeding Clinic
Working across disciplines in this way, we’re able to provide patient-centered care for every child and young adult we treat.