Jennifer M Dillman, WHNP
Urogynecology
Bio & Overview
Megan Dillman is a board certified women’s health nurse practitioner in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System. She is currently practicing in the Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Medicine under the supervision of Elisa Trowbridge, MD, and Kathie Hullfish, MD. She also practices in the Midlife Health Center under the supervision of JoAnn Pinkerton, MD.
Dillman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 2004. After working for several years, she decided to go back to school for nursing to focus on her love of women’s health. She earned her Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010. Dillman practiced for six years in a general OB/GYN practice in Lewiston, ME, providing care to women across the lifespan, as well as during and after pregnancy.
Dillman is expanding her knowledge of women’s health after six years of practicing as a generalist. In her current position at UVA, she focuses on care of women in the perimenopausal and postmenopausal periods, as well as diagnosis and treatment of pelvic floor disorders and urinary incontinence.
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Children (2-12)
Adolescents (12-21)
Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Certification
- National Certification Corporation (Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner (WHNP-BC))
Highlights
Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Megan Dillman, MSN, WHNP
I'm Megan Dillman. I'm a women's health nurse practitioner at pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery here at the University of Virginia. I typically see female patients in the perimenopausal and postmenopausal phase of life, though we do see some younger women too. Typically, we are dealing with issues of urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and fecal incontinence. I specialize in more conservative management, which is done in an outpatient setting in the office; pessary fittings, a new procedure we started offering a year ago called Urostym, or more conservative management, like behavioral modification or medication. Nursing is a second career for me. So initially I went to the University of Virginia. I was an English and women's studies graduate, and then I went to the March for Women's Lives in 2004, which was in Washington D.C. at the time and it sort of opened my eyes to access to health care for women and women's health issues and how important they were and it sort of made me refocus my career path on what ways could I contribute to trying to make women's lives better. One thing that I've noticed in urogynecology, in this practice is that lots of times these issues are very embarrassing and likely have been going on for long periods of time and women feel like they've just been blown off. Even just to get women to be able to put words to those problems can be really empowering for them. And that's been really important to me too is to feel like you can offer them sort of a safe space to kind of talk about these problems and that there are things they can do to help.
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