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William James Polzin, MD

Title

Associate Director, Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati; Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital; Associate Director of Obstetrics, Good Samaritan Hospital; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Bio

William Polzin, MD, is well known regionally for his clinical excellence in assisting healthy babies and mothers through high-risk pregnancies. His extensive experience with complicated pregnancies is both reassuring to his many patients and also the foundation for his academic stature.

Dr. Polzin serves as associate director of the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati. He also is director of maternal-fetal medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, associate director of obstetrics at Good Samaritan Hospital, and medical director of the community-based prenatal center, Healthy Beginnings.

Dr. Polzin joined Good Samaritan Hospital in 1993. He has been affiliated with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine since 1993. He also practiced obstetrics and gynecology from 1987-93 at various military locations, including assistant chief of maternal-fetal medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, fellow in maternal-fetal medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, and staff physician at USA MEDDAC at Wuerzburg, Germany.

A graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Polzin completed his residency and fellowships at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. He has been a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 1989, and a diplomate in the ABOG's division of maternal-fetal medicine since 1995. In 2003, he received the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award, a national award for his leadership in obstetrics and gynecology.

Credentials

BA: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Degree with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
MD: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1983
Internship: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, 1983-1984
Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, 1984-1987
Fellowship: Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, 1989-1991
Certification:

  • Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, December 1989
  • Recertified as Diplomate of the ABOG, April 1998
  • Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, March 1995

Awards and Honors

  • Fellows Award, Best Scientific Paper on Maternal-Fetal Medicine, AFD, ACOG, 1991
  • AMA Physician's Recognition Award, Jan 2003 – Jan 2006

Research

Fetal growth restriction; antiphospholipid antibodies; premature rupture of membranes; incompetent cervix - diagnosis and management; antepartum fetal surveillance; prenatal diagnosis

Publications, Most Recent

Coppage KH, Polzin WJ. Severe Preeclampsia and Delivery Outcomes: Is Immediate Cesarean Delivery Beneficial?Am J Obstet Gynecol 2002; 186:921-3.