Uduak Umoh Andy

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Additional Appointment Titles

• Attending, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Attending, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery , Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
• Attending, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery , Department of Gynecology, PENN Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
• Chief of Gynecology Service, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
• Director, Accidental Bowel Leakage Program, UPHS
• Physician Lead, Penn Health for Women at PMUC

Education

• BS
  University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Philadelphia, PA, 2003.
• MD
  Boston University, Boston, MA, 2007.

Post-Graduate Training

• Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2007-2011.
• Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT), In the Care of Older Adults, Cape May, NJ, April 2010; April 2012, 2010-2012.
• Fellow, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2011-2014.
• Certificate in Clinical Research, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2014-2014.

Description of Research Expertise

• Fecal Incontinence
• Pelvic floor disorders in Older Women

Description of Clinical Expertise

• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Urinary incontinence
• Fecal incontinence
• Pelvic floor disorders

Selected Publications

U. U. Andy, N. Koelper, L. Arya, D. Newman, J. Wyman,H. Klusaritz, W. Walsh, S. Reaves, R. Brown: Impact of approach on the demographics of older women recruited for the MoveOnUp Stud. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 72(S1), April 2024.

Elizabeth Kravitz, Jacqueline J Thompson, Theresa Christiansen, Lily Arya, Uduak Andy, Edward K Kim : Dual Incontinence and Risk of Fall: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Urogynecology (Phila). 2024 Mar 1;30(3):280-285. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001467. Epub 2024 Mar 11. 2024.

Surbhi Agrawal, Heidi Harvie, Lorraine Flick, Ravi B Parikh, Uduak U Andy#, Lily Arya# (#co-senior author): Patient perspectives on treatment and prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections: a focus group study. Int Urogynecol J. 2024 Feb;35(2):381-389. doi: 10.1007/s00192-023-05682-3. Epub 2023 Nov 18. 2024.

Vivian W Sung, Shawn Menefee, Holly E Richter, Pamela A Moalli, Uduak Andy, Alison Weidner, David D Rahn, Marie F Paraiso, Sarah E Jeney, Donna Mazloomdoost, Jace Gilbert, Ryan Whitworth, Sonia Thomas; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pelvic Floor Disorders Network: Patient perspectives in adverse event reporting after vaginal apical prolapse surgery. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2024 May 6:S0002-9378(24)00569-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2024.04.043. Online ahead of print. 2024.

Simone Reaves, Lily A Arya, Diane K Newman, Jean Wyman, Heather Klusaritz, Wendy Walsh, Rebecca T Brown, Uduak U Andy : Reducing Falls in Older Women with Urinary Incontinence. Adv Geriatr Med Res. 2023;5(4):e230011. doi: 10.20900/agmr20230011. Epub 2024 Jan 25. 2024.

Jaclyn M Muñoz, Molly Groskreutz, Charlene Compher, Uduak U Andy: Diet Intake After Diet Modification Intervention in Women With Fecal Incontinence. Urogynecology (Phila). 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001480. Online ahead of print. 2024.

Uduak U Andy, Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez, Benjamin Carper, Holly E Richter, Keisha Y Dyer, Maria Florian-Rodriguez, G Sarah Napoe, Deborah Myers, Michele O’Shea, Donna Mazloomdoost, Marie G Gantz; Pelvic Floor Disorders Network: Dietary Intake and Symptom Severity in Women with Fecal Incontinence. Int Urogynecol J. 2024 May;35(5):1061-1067. doi: 10.1007/s00192-024-05776-6. Epub 2024 Apr 24. 2024.

Luchristt D, Carper B, Balgobin S, Meyer I, Myers D, Mazloomdoost D, Gantz M, Andy UU, Zyczynski HM, Lukacz ES; Pelvic Floor Disorders Network: Characteristics associated with subjective and objective measures of treatment success in women undergoing percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation vs sham for accidental bowel leakage. Int Urogynecol J Jan 2023, Online ahead of print Notes: doi: 10.1007/s00192-022-05431-y.

Fabiana M. Kreines, Lily Arya, Brendan Kelly, Kyle Bittinger, Yelizaveta Borodyanskaya, Uduak Andy : Safety and Feasibility of Fecal Microbial Transplantation for Fecal Incontinence in Women. Urogynecology 29(10S), October 2023.

Elizabeth Kravitz, Theresa Christensen, Uduak Andy, Edward Kim: Association of dual urinary and fecal incontinence with risk of fall in older women. Urogynecology 29(10S), October 2023.