This interview is with Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health editorial board member Dr Lior Lowenstein. Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health is an open access journal published by Libertas Academica.

Editor in Chief Dr Zeev Blumenfeld has recently issued a call for papers

What is the primary focus of your research?

1. Surgical outcomes after minimally invasive pelvic reconstructive surgery.
2. Evaluation of urinary urgency in women with overactive bladder syndrome.
3. Neurophysioloigic testing using electrodiagnosis in the genito-urinary tract of women with pelvic floor dysfunction.
4. Pain control in women undergoing gynecological surgery.

What are the most exciting developments arising from current research in your area?

The urgeometer is a new device for evaluation of urgency sensation at the time of urodynamics testing.


Who are your main collaborators? Please describe your work with them.

Loyola Medical Center Chicago, Il

How did you come to be working in your research area?

At the time of my residency in Ob\Gyn I rotated at the Neurourlogy unit at our medical center. After doing some more research with the female urologists at our institiute, I have decided to do a formal fellowship in the field of Urogynecologist. I did my training at Loyola with Dr Beuberk, Kenton, FitzGerald and Mueller.

What do you think about the development of open access publishing? Have you published in an open access journal? What motivated you to do so?

I did not have the chance yet to publish at an open access.


What articles and/or books have you published recently?

Lowenstein L, Kenton K, Brubaker L, Hatchett L,Arvizu R, Goldman K, Mueller E.R, FitzGerald MP. Evaluation of Urgency in Women, with a Validated Urgency Severity and Impact Questionnaire (USIQ). Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 2009;20(3):301-7.

Lowenstein L, Pham T, Abbasy S, Kenton K, Brubaker L, Mueller ER, Shott S, Vardi Y, Gruenwald I, Fitzgerald MP. Observations relating to urinary sensation during detrusor overactivity. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2008. [Epub ahead of print]

Lowenstein L, Fitz A, Kenton K, FitzGerald MP, Mueller ER, Brubaker L. Transabdominal Uterosacral Suspension : Outcomes and Complications. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009 Mar 21. [Epub ahead of print]

Lowenstein L, Gamble , Deniseiko Sanses T, van Raalte H, Carberry C, Jakus S, Kambiss S, McAchran S, Pham T, Aschkenazi S, Hoskey K, Kenton K, Sexual function is related to body image perceptionin women with pelvic organ prolapsed. Journal of Sexual Medicine 2009