UCLA specialist to be honored this month
UCLA women’s health care specialist Dr. Mitzi Krockover will be
honored by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women for her
outstanding professional and personal achievements.
Krockover is one of 12 women who will be recognized at the 12th
Annual Women of the Year Awards Luncheon on Monday, March 10 at
noon in the Grand Hall of the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion.
As founding director of the Iris Cantor UCLA Women’s Health
Center, she pioneered a model for delivering health services to
women, focusing on the integration of health care delivery,
education and research of women’s health issues.
The UCLA assistant professor of clinical medicine has also
served on a variety of committees, including several domestic
violence councils. In addition, she co-directed a professional
conference on primary care for women at UCLA, co-founded the UCLA
Women’s Health Grand Rounds and co-directs a course for UCLA
undergraduates on women and medicine.
Krockover earned her B.A. from Washington University in St.
Louis, where she was a National Merit Scholar, and M.D. from the
University of Texas. She completed her internal medicine residency
at Northwestern University.
UCLA doctors develop new uterine treatment
UCLA doctors have developed a new, nonoperative procedure that
can preclude surgery for women suffering from painful uterine
fibroids. Research results were presented Wednesday at the 22nd
Annual Meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular &
Interventional Radiology in Washington, D.C.
Using specialized tools and imaging devices, interventional
radiologists  doctors who have special training in diagnosing
and treating illness using miniature tools and imaging guidance can
dry up the fibroid by embolizing or cutting off blood flow.
Fibroids, benign tumors of the uterine muscle, can cause serious
bleeding and are the main reason for the surgical removal of the
uterus. According to the National Center for Health Statistics,
more than one-third of the 556,000 hysterectomies performed in the
United States in 1994 were due to fibroids.
"Between 20 to 40 percent of women 35 and older have fibroids,
which can cause severe bleeding and pain," said Dr. Scott Goodwin,
chief of vascular and interventional radiology at UCLA Medical
Center. "Some of these women have a uterus as large as women who
are five or six months pregnant."
The new technique involves making a small incision less than
one-quarter inch in the groin, placing a catheter into the artery
and guiding it to the uterus while watching the progress of the
procedure via X-ray imaging.
In the UCLA study, Goodwin found that 80 percent of the patients
treated reported significant improvements at follow-up visits
between two and eight months after the procedure.
American Indian library to close indefinitely
Due to a proposed reorganization by the Chancellor’s office of
UCLA’s Ethnic Studies Libraries, as well as an absence of permanent
personnel to staff the library, the American- Indian Studies Center
(AISC) Library is closed indefinitely, according to Carole
Goldberg-Ambrose, AISC Action Director.
In response to concerns about the disposition of the current
collection in the AISC library, all holdings will remain on campus
whatever the outcome of the organization, Goldberg-Ambrose said. A
small reference collection, that will not circulate, will remain at
the Center.
Inquiries regarding access to specific materials should be
directed to Goldberg-Ambrose at (310) 825-7315.
Compiled by Daily Bruin staff reports.