Gaetane Francis

Brookside Gynecology is a four physician practice in Greenwich that no longer provides obstetrical care beyond the first trimester and now works entirely in gynecology, with a particular eye on the years after family building. Dr. Francis joined in 1995 after completing both her medical degree and her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Yale-New Haven, and she is one of two certified menopause practitioners on the team. The practice describes itself as a team of experienced menopause practitioners and frames hormone therapy as one option among several to weigh against a woman's own risks and quality of life. Her own listed interests are perimenopause and menopause care, diet and exercise for women's health, operative hysteroscopy including polypectomy and myomectomy, and the workup of abnormal Pap tests with colposcopy and biopsy. She also holds a gynecologic ultrasound certification from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the office runs its own pelvic ultrasound and an on-site blood draw so testing can often happen during the same visit. Visits are by appointment only with no walk-in hours, and the office tries to fit in same-day problems.

MD, MSCP