Alexis May Kimble

Dr. Alexis May Tran Kimble is Medical Director of Women’s Center for Pelvic Wellness. She is among the few women in the country who has dedicated her entire life to caring for women. Her lifelong passion for improving the quality of life for every woman began early in her career. She has developed programs for the less privileged, personally developed a not-for-profit organization solely to help women in need, and began to change the course of countless women’s lives in Southern California. Her belief that all women are “beautiful from the inside out” is something that resonates throughout the Center’s practice.

 

She earned her medical degree from Western University of Health Sciences in California. From there, she went on to complete her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Albany Medical College in New York. Not stopping there, Dr. Kimble was fellowship-trained in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

 

During her extensive training, Dr. Kimble received several awards, including excellence in teaching and laparoscopy. She has also authored the book chapter named, “Biological Grafts in Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery” in the core textbook used in female urology titled, “Textbook of Female Urology and Urogynecology” by Cardozo and Staskin. Other chapters she has authored include, “General Gynecology” in Pocket OBGYN, a core reference manual for rotating medical residents in gynecology.  Dr. Kimble has written numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals on the topics of energy-based devices for vaginal and vulvar conditions, overactive bladder, painful bladder, pelvic pain, and surgical outcomes following prolapse repair.  She has served on multiple global missions to India and South America, in conjunction with the International Urogynecological Association and the Urogynaecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Society of India as well as Saving Mothers, respectively to share her expertise in women’s health and pelvic floor surgery. She is a Key Opinion Leader in vulvovaginal health.

 

Her clinical and research interests include surgical outcomes for prolapse as well as noninvasive and restorative therapies for pelvic floor disorders. She serves on the national consensus panel to create guidelines on the application of Energy Based Devices for Women’s Genitourinary Health for the American Urogynecological Society. She is invited faculty by ASLMS (American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery) on the topic of Evidence Regarding Energy Based Devices for Cosmetic Gynecology, teaching other physicians on these topics.