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Biographical Sketch
Brooke Gurland, MD, FACS, FASCRS is a staff surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in the Digestive Disease Institute. Her specialty interests include functional bowel disorders, incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, fistulas, and complex pelvic floor dysfunction. She supervises a bowel management program and she advocates a multidisciplinary approach to pelvic floor disorders through combined clinic hours with specialists in urogynecolgoy and urology. Dr Gurland is board certified in general and colorectal surgery and she is trained in laparoscopic, robotic and pelvic surgery.
After receiving her medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, she trained in general surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She received fellowship training in colorectal surgery at The Cleveland Clinic, Weston. Dr. Gurland is also a 2003 recipient of the Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award by the American Geriatric Association for a multidisciplinary approach to patients with pelvic floor disorders.
Dr. Gurland is active in numerous professional societies and she is Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and the American College of Surgeon. She is an active member of The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Healthcare Information and Management System Societies (HIMSS). She has authored several peer reviewed articles and book chapters and she is an invited speaker at both national and international meetings.
Specialty Interests
Pelvic organ prolapse, bowels and bladder dysfunction, fecal incontinence, rectal internal and external prolapse, enterocele, rectocele, slow transit and outlet constipation, ano or rectal vaginal fistula, hemorrhoids, anal fistula, fissures, rectal pain, and pelvic floor dysfunction
Innovations & Patents
Advanced Laparoscopy, Robotic Surgery, Multidisciplinary Pelvic floor evaluation and treatment, Ventral Rectopexy, Anal sphincter reinforcement or encirclement with biologic mesh, sacral neuromodulation (bowel pacemaker), Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy, Doppler Assisted Hemorrhoid artery ligation.
Industry Relationships
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receive or have the right to receive royalties or (iv) its physicians/scientists hold any equity interest for the physician's/scientist's role as inventor, discoverer, developer, founder or consultant.* In publicly disclosing this information, the Cleveland Clinic tries to provide information as accurately as possible about its physicians' and scientists' connections with industry.
As of 12/4/2012, Dr. Gurland has reported no financial relationship with industry that is applicable to this listing. In general, patients should feel free to contact their doctor about any of the relationships and how the relationships are overseen by the Cleveland Clinic. To learn more about the Cleveland Clinic's policies on collaborations with industry and innovation management, go to our Integrity in Innovation page.
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