Professor of Clinical Reproductive Medicine Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery MD, University of California, San Diego, 1982 Residency, University of California, San Diego, 1982-1986 Fellowship, Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, St. George's Hospital, London, 1997

telephone: 619 - 543 - 6777

Licensure: California G50449

Certifications: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1988
Recertified, 1998

Dr. Charles Nager is a professor of clinical reproductive Medicine (Obstetrics and Gynecology) at UCSD. During his 16-year career as a urogynecologist, Dr. Nager has developed competence in the full spectrum of abdominal and vaginal urinary incontinence and pelvic prolapse operations.  Dr. Nager performs more than 100 major surgeries each year for incontinence or prolapse.

Dr. Nager became director of the UCSD Urogynecology clinic after completing a preceptorship with Dr. Donald Ostergard in 1998.  He subsequently completed a one-year fellowship with professor Stuart Stanton at St. George's Hospital in London in 1997.  He has made oral presentations at the last two annual American Urogynocological Society meetings.

During his 16 years on the faculty, Dr. Nager has served two elected terms on the UCSD Board of Governors (Directors), 1995-1999, and chaired the UCSD Patient Care Committee (1999).  He has been an active participant in the UCSD Managed Care Program and has chaired their Utilization Review Committee in 1991 and their Utilization Subcommittee from 1992-1994. He was the Associate Director of the Residence Training Program from 1987-1994, and director from 1995-2002.  He was the 1992 campus-wide recipient of the UCSD chancellor's Associate Award for Excellence in teaching and has twice won the coveted Departmental teaching Award (1998, 1996).

Dr. Nager is co-director of the UCSD Women's Pelvic Medicine Center.  He is a Co-Investigator for the NIH Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network and chairs the Urodynamic Subcommittee.

Honors and Awards:

• UCSD Chancellor's Associate Award for Excellence in Teaching 1992
• UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine Residents Joseph M. Didio Teacher Award: In recognition of Excellence in Teaching 1988 and 1996
• UCSD Division of Family Medicine Residency Program, Outstanding Teacher Award 1987

Major Clinical Interests:

• Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery - Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Prolapse
• Endoscopic Surgery
• Ectopic Pregnancy

Recent Publications:

• Nager CW, Schulz JA, Stanton SL., Monga A.  Correlation of Urethral Closure Pressure, Leak-Point Pressure and Incontinence Severity Measures. Int Urogynecol J 2001; 12: 395-400.
• Nager CW, Helliwell JP.  Episiotomy increases perineal laceration length in primiparous women.  Am J Obstet Gynecol 2001: 185: 444-50.`
• Nager CW, Kumar D., Kahn MA, Stanton SL., Management of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction. The Lancet 1997; 350: 1751
• Nager CW, Kumar D., Kahn MA, Stanton SL., female Pelvic Floor Investigations. The Diplomate 1998; 5(3):167.
• Murphy AA, Nager CW, Wujek JJ, Kettel LM, Torp VA, Chin GH. Operative Laparoscopy versus Laparotomy for the Management of Ectopic Pregnancy: A Prospective Trial. Fertility and Sterility, 57(6), 1180-1185, 1992.
• Hoppe DE, Bekkar BE, Nager CW. Single-Dose Systemic Methotrexate for the Treatment of Persistent Ectopic Pregnancy After Conservative Surgery. Obstet Gynecol 83: 51-54, 1994.

Book Chapters:

• Nager C, Murphy AA. Ectopic Pregnancy. Philadelphia: JP Lippincott, 1991: 403-411. (Pitkin RM, Scott Jr. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology; Vol 34(2)).
• Murphy AA, Morales A, Nager CW. Laparoscopic Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancies. In: Azziz R, Murphy AA, eds. Practical Manual of Operative Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992: 79-89.