Jessica Opoku-Anane, MD, MS

Jessica Opoku-Anane, MD, MS is a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.   She is a specialist in the treatment of uterine fibroids, endometriosis, adenomyosis, chronic pelvic pain, intrauterine scarring, and other advanced gynecologic surgery.  This includes laparoscopic and robotic surgery, hysteroscopy, vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) and office-based procedures.

Dr. Opoku-Anane obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Harvard Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals.  She subsequently completed an AAGL fellowship in advanced minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS) at George Washington University and trained at the Center for Endometriosis Care in Atlanta.

After training, she served as the Chief of MIGS and Director of Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Centers at the University of California San Francisco and Columbia University prior to joining Rutgers.  In addition to her clinical activities, she has been active in research and spent two years with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) both in the United States and in Kenya.

Her more recent research includes a randomized control trial to test the ability of antifibrinolytics to decrease blood loss during myomectomy, a study accessing cancer associated mutations in deep endometriosis, and several studies on health equity among historically marginalized patients with endometriosis.  Additionally, she directs the Community Outreach and Education Core for the UCSF-Stanford P01 Endometriosis Center for Discovery, Innovation, Training and Community Engagement (“ENACT”). This Core trains and mentors new investigators in endometriosis research and empowers people with endometriosis to understand their symptoms and options for care and to inform the research community, from the patient’s perspective, about their needs and goals.  Dr. Opoku-Anane also has a longstanding interest in global health and spends extended periods of time throughout Africa on clinical and research programs. She has published a systematic review article on increasing laparoscopic surgery in developing countries and assists with the development of laparoscopic programs throughout sub-Saharan Arica.

She is also a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on several committees of the American Association of Laparoscopic Gynecologists and on the board of the World Endometriosis Society and the Society of Society for Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery.