| Women's
Medicine by Dr. VIKKI HUFNAGEL MD Phd
 VIKKI
HUFNAGEL, M.D., pioneer in advancing womens medicine
and crusader for reproductive health rights and Female Reconstructive
Surgery, graduated from Medical School at the University of
California in San Francisco. She then became Chief Resident,
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein Hospital in New
York.
With training, experience, and employing the state of the
art and latest advances in surgical techniques, she created
and developed "Female Reconstructive Surgery" (FRS).
FRS is an alternative to hysterectomy for non-cancerous conditions
such as uterine fibroids,
tubal ligation, and uterine prolapse. Women previously had
no other options.
Dr. Hufnagel is the first to come forth and fully expose and document the massive female surgical abuses in the United States. (Hysterectomies in the United States, 1965-1984, Vital & Health Statistics; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, December 1987). She provided testimony before the U.S. Congress and the National Institute of Health on gender issues in medicine.
Her book, No More
Hysterectomies, revolutionized the women's health care
field and the concepts concerning the role and function of
the female reproductive system.
Dr. Hufnagel founded the Institute for
Reproductive Health (IRH) as an educational resource and legislature
center. Through the IRH, Dr. Hufnagel worked with California
Senator Diane Watson (now Congress - Woman Watson) and other
dignitaries for the successful passage of the nation's first
informed consent law, Senate Bill 835. Known as "Informed
Consent to Hysterectomy", this law and subsequent laws makes
it mandatory for physicians in the states of California, New
York, and Texas to fully inform women on the complications
of, and alternatives and options to, hysterectomy.
In an ongoing effort to educate, inform and empower women about the health care rights, Dr. Hufnagel has appeared on both radio and television. Programs to her credit have included: "Phil Donahue", Leeza," "Sally Jesse Raphael," "Oprah," KNBC, KABC, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, BBC and numerous radio programs nationwide.
She is currently the Medical Director of the International Women's FRS Center located in Baja, California, where she teaches FRS. The FRS Center is state of the art and is the only location that currently offers FRS.
The Hufnagel Institute, a non-for-profit organization, has been newly created to:
- Further the public education regarding women's reproductive and hormonal health.
- Provide medical and surgical care for women.
- Further women's health/civil rights.
- Further expand the International Women's
- FRS Center's newly created teaching program, teaching and certifying the next generation of women health care providers/physicians the ideals and skills of FRS.
The International Coalition for the Advancement of Women's Health Care, Education, and Rights, (TICAW), in association with The Hufnagel Institute, is conducting studies and gathering information about current trends and abusives of women's health care.
Being a whislte blower and one of the
few physicians to testify on behalf of female patients, she
has been called the "Raph Nader" of Women's Health Care. Because
of her activism, she has been the target of her peers and
of the medical community whom she publicly exposes. She has
been called everything from a terorist (for informing women
that fibroids are not cancerous) to radical (for her firm
beliefs that, for the women's health, the uterus should not
be removed expect in the case of cancer). Today, informing
women and the belief that the uterus plays a beneficial role
in a woman's health is embraced and accepted by the medical
community but she faces ongoing backlash as she continues
to expose current abuses in women's health care.
Dr. Hufnagel does not practice medicine in the USA. In the USA she only provides educational consults and legal reviews.
July 2004:
Dr. Hufnagel's CV is under update. Many courses, papers, and other important events need to added. A fire took place in July 1999 destroying her entire office. Then in November 11 2004 her computers and files were stolen. We are working on gathering more data for the CV .
Over the past five years Dr. Hufnagel has studied nautralpathy and alternative medicine with doctorate degrees in these areas. This has added to her expertise in women's health care. These degrees are posted here also. She has worked in anti-aging , and stress reduction. She has consulted on rehab programs for physical , emotional , and mind work for corporations. She created the REVERSE SITE .
Dr. Hufnagel has continued her studies in formula work under various pharmacological educational systems. Her formulas have been used safely for some 20 years. Her work founded Europa Health and she owns the formulas concepts. She will be launching REVERSE with her formulas 2004.
For referrals on her work write Tom Shafra at www.midwestpharmacy.com
In the past five years Dr. Hufnagel has focused also in the extensive study of in depth psychology and myth. She has attended various CME courses at the Jung Institute Los Angeles and Pacifica Graduate Institute. This work is to look into the behavior of women and how they deal with health problems. She is writing post graduate papers on these topics. She is on going in her education at the Jung Institute.
She is working towards another doctorate degree under the study of Dr. Jean Houston. Her focus is in Social Artistry in medicine. For on going education into the work of Jean Houston please go to www.JeanHouston.com.
"This work helps one to move forward in the process of individuation and transformation."
Dr. Hufnagel has a degree in advance Rolfing and studied under Ida Rolf at UCSF.
Dr. Hufnagel has a degree in Postural Integration and studied under Jack Painter. |
