Kirkwood K Shy
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
325 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98104About
Dr. Kirkwood Shy is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Shy specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Shy can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Shy 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
Wayne State Univ Sch of Med, Detroit Mi 1973
Wayne State University School of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of neurodevelopmental abnormality at four and eight months by the movement assessment of infants.
- Tubal sterilization and risk of subsequent hospital admission for menstrual disorders.
- Roundtable: postterm pregnancy. Part II. Antenatal testing and candid reassurance.
- Efficacy of screening in preventing cervical cancer among older women.
- Sperm penetration assay and subsequent pregnancy: a prospective study of 74 infertile men.
- Maternal smoking and infant respiratory distress syndrome.
- An investigation of the relationship between cesarean section birth and respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn.
- Genital tract examinations and zona-free hamster egg penetration tests from men exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol.
- Benefits of the sperm (hamster ova) penetration assay in the evaluation of the infertile couple.
- Sperm penetration assay: useful test in evaluation of male fertility.
- Alternative birth rooms and birth options.
- An out-of-hospital birth center using university referral.
- Out-of-hospital delivery in Washington State, 1975 to 1977.
- Racial differences between linked birth and infant death records in Washington State.
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