Associate Professor and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgeon
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Chief of Advanced Benign and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Rutgers University Comprehensive Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Program
Nyack, NY
Dr. Jessica Opoku-Anane is an associate professor and minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is the Chief of Advanced Benign and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery. Additionally, with the development of the Rutgers University Comprehensive Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Program, Dr. Opoku-Anane will oversee the department’s cutting-edge clinical, surgical, and integrative treatment options for patients with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. Her practice includes advanced laparoscopy/robotic surgery, hysteroscopy, reduced port/single incision/vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, and office-based procedures.
She obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, residency training at the Harvard Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, and AAGL MIGS fellowship at George Washington University and the Center for Endometriosis Care in Atlanta. She has a Masters in Clinical and Translational Research and spent two years with the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on cancer-associated mutations in deep endometriosis, bioinformatics, and health equity in chronic pain and endometriosis. She teaches MIGS locally and in sub-Saharan Africa and serves as faculty for the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics Surgical Education Scholars Program.