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Dr. Carol A Gerdes MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
501 S Shore Ctr W Suite D Alameda CA, 94501About
Dr. Carol Gerdes is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Alameda, CA. Dr. Gerdes specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Gerdes can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Gerdes can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Pa, Philadelphia Pa 1986
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 1986
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transcriptional targeting to anterior pituitary lactotrophic cells using recombinant adenovirus vectors in vitro and in vivo in normal and estrogen/sulpiride-induced hyperplastic anterior pituitaries.
- Strong promoters are the key to highly efficient, noninflammatory and noncytotoxic adenoviral-mediated transgene delivery into the brain in vivo.
- Efficient FLPe recombinase enables scalable production of helper-dependent adenoviral vectors with negligible helper-virus contamination.
- High-capacity, helper-dependent, "gutless" adenoviral vectors for gene transfer into brain.
- A novel combination of promoter and enhancers increases transgene expression in vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro and coronary arteries in vivo after adenovirus-mediated gene transfer.
- Gene transfer into rat brain using adenoviral vectors.
- Fts insertional mutant of Salmonella typhimurium.
Treatments
- Vaginal Prolapse
- Menopause
- Vaginitis
- Stress Incontinence
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
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