History
Dr. Margolis has been in the full-time practice of Pelvic Surgery/Urogynecology since 1991 and has performed over 17,000 surgeries since then. Dr. Margolis has held faculty positions at Emory University, Northwestern University, Stanford University, and the University of Wisconsin. He currently holds a clinical faculty appointment at UCLA. Dr. Margolis has trained several Pelvic Surgery fellows and continues to train pelvic surgeons internationally. Dr. Margolis is an active mission surgeon, caring for underserved women throughout Africa and South America. In addition to providing sorely needed surgical services, he empowers local surgeons by sharing his expertise especially in the area of fistula repair. Dr. Margolis has been featured on The Doctors TV with Travis Stork, MD and Sarah Benjamin's Sarah with a Fistula blog. Dr. Margolis holds clinic at two convenient Bay Area locations: 815 Pollard Road Los Gatos, CA 95032 1820 Ogden Drive Burlingame, CA 94010
Specialties
Dr. Margolis is a board-certified, fellowship trained urogynecologist specializing in minimally invasive surgical treatments for urinary incontinence and pelvic floor disorders such as pelvic organ prolapse. If you are suffering from incontinence or prolapse, you are in good company as these are extremely common issues that can have a major effect on women's quality of life. Dr. Margolis has performed over 17,000 surgeries in his career and is one of the few urogynecologists nationally to perform laparoscopic Burch procedures for stress urinary incontinence. Dr. Margolis has never used and will not use synthetic (polypropylene) slings or vaginal mesh. In fact, Dr. Margolis is an expert in surgical removal of mesh and fixing mesh complications. Surgeries are performed at leading hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area including: * El Camino Hospital (Los Gatos and Mountain View locations) * ValleyCare Hospital (Pleasanton) * Mills-Peninsula Hospital (Burlingame) * Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Monterey) * Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Gatos) Surgical services performed include: * Pelvic urogynecologic surgery * Stress urinary incontinence * Vaginal/Pelvic Organ Prolapse * Vesicovaginal and Rectovaginal Fistula Repair * Laparoscopic and Robotic (DaVinci) Surgery * Repair of Vaginal Mesh and Sling Complications * Repair of Surgical Complications * Uterine Fibroids * Treatment of Endometriosis