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Philippe Zimmern, M.D., is a Professor of Urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the recipient of the Felecia and John Cain Chair for Women’s Health in Urology in honor of Dr. Philippe Zimmern. His clinical specialties include incontinence, prolapse, voiding dysfunction, urodynamics, fistula and urethral diverticulum repairs, mesh implant complications, and urinary tract infections. He also specializes in vaginal surgery with native tissue repair, and in minimally invasive robotic surgery for prolapse.
Dr. Zimmern received his medical training and completed his doctoral thesis at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris, France. After completing a urology residency in France, Dr. Zimmern spent a fellowship year at UCLA.
Dr. Zimmern joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 1995. Prior to that, he served as Director of the Urology Research Program and Co-Director of the Urodynamics Laboratory at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles.
Among several honors, he has been the recipient of the 1997 Paul Zimskind Urodynamic Society Award and the Jane and John Justin Distinguished Chair in Urology, in honor of Claus G. Roehrborn, M.D., in 2005. He is a past President of the Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology (SUFU) and in 2011 was the recipient of the SUFU Distinguished Service Award. In 2012, he received the prestigious Continence Care Champion award from the National Association for Continence (NAFC).
Dr. Zimmern, in association with Gary Lemack,
M.D., and Maude
Carmel, M.D., directs a two-year fellowship program in female pelvic medicine
and reconstructive surgery (FPMRS) at UT Southwestern. This fellowship program
has been endowed in perpetuity by the Felecia Cain Foundation.
Dr. Zimmern has been a visiting professor in the United States, Europe, China, Australia, and Canada and has editorial and advisory responsibilities for many urology journals. He has co-authored more than 365 publications, 28 surgical movies, and 65 book chapters, and co-edited four textbooks, including the books Female Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery and Native Tissue Repair for Incontinence and Prolapse. He is FPMRS-certified and a member of the American College of Surgeons.
He received the inaugural Leaders in Excellence Award at UT Southwestern (2018).
Philippe Zimmern, M.D., has a message of hope for people who suffer from incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
“Just because your mother and grandmother lived with it, that doesn’t mean you have to,” he says. "Providing quality of life is the essence of what we do."
As Director of the Bladder and Incontinence Treatment Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Zimmern treats a variety of conditions that affect women (and some men), offering solutions that range from rehabilitation to medications and surgery.
“I enjoy giving people the chance to sleep at night, to travel, to not have to wear protection or pads – activities that their conditions might otherwise have limited,” says Dr. Zimmern, a Texas Monthly Super Doctor.
One of Dr. Zimmern’s particular areas of specialty is vaginal surgery for
pelvic organ prolapse, a condition in which the bladder, uterus, or rectum
“drops,” or prolapses, into the vagina. He offers a procedure that uses a
patient’s own tissues to fix the problem. He’s also an expert in repairing
complications stemming from other procedures performed to repair prolapse,
including mesh complications.
In addition to his work with patients, Dr. Zimmern actively participates in research related to incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and recurrent urinary tract infections. He and a team from UT Southwestern were integral members of the National Institutes of Health’s Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network, a multicenter group at the forefront of clinical trials and high-quality research in the field. His current research focuses on women’s health topics related to urology, with NIH grants (R 01 and R 21) in collaboration with several Ph.D. collaborators on the UTSW campus, and at UT Dallas and UT Arlington.
Dr. Zimmern leads the research section of UT Southwestern’s fellowship training in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (FPMRS), one of only a few such programs in the country.
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