April 22nd, 2008 Dr. Caryn M. Hertz – Director of Anesthesia
Caryn M. Hertz, MD is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist and has worked in the field for over 20 years. She has devoted her professional career to the subspecialty of ambulatory (outpatient) anesthesia. She has been working with Dr. Gary Berger at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center since 1995.
Originally from Queens, New York, Dr. Hertz attended college at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, graduate school at The University of Pennsylvania, and medical school at the University of Rochester. She completed her residency in anesthesiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston (a Harvard affiliate) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After finishing her residency, she was employed at Duke University Medical Center for 5 years, specializing in preoperative assessment and ambulatory surgery. Dr Hertz has worked at Chapel Hill Surgical Center ever since.
Dr. Hertz says, “I am dedicated to making each patient’s surgery comfortable and safe. Working regularly with Dr. Berger has enabled me to truly optimize and continually improve the Tubal Ligation Reversal experience for our patients.”
Dr. Hertz and her family have lived in Chapel Hill since 1989. Having relocated from the Northeast, they very much enjoyed the mild weather, beautiful environment, and remarkable community here in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Berger’s Comment
One of the many things that makes tubal reversal surgery safe and comfortable at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the close coordination among the professional staff who work together every day. This makes the tubal reversal procedure go smoothly and without any unnecessary waste of time for the patient who is under anesthesia. It is like a finely tuned orchestra, with each player knowing exactly what the other is doing. This coordinated team work comes only with constant repetition. The surgical and anesthesia staff at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center practice together each day, and doing four procedures a day allows us to work toward the goal of perfection in patient care. It is the goal that we all strive for each day, with each patient, and each tubal ligation reversal. Other doctors and nurses who have visited our facility are amazed at how quickly patients recover from their operations.
April 18th, 2008 Introducing James Split MD
It is a happy occasion to introduce another new member of the staff of Chapel Hill Surgical Center. Dr. James Split is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist. He has worked at Chapel Hill Surgical Center since December 2007. He previously lived and worked in Greensboro, North Carolina for the last 18 months. Before moving to North Carolina, Dr. Split practiced medicine in Michigan for 25 years. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Michigan in 1979 and practiced Emergency Medicine for the first 11 years of his career. He both practiced and taught Emergency medicine in an Emergency Medicine Residency and held a clinical faculty position at Michigan State University. In 1990, he returned to the University of Michigan to train in anesthesiology. He completed his anesthesiology residency in 1993 and has been in the full time practice of anesthesiology since then. Dr. Split is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and The Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia.
Dr. Split will be speaking with many of you as part of your pre-operative evaluation. If you have any general questions about anesthesia, you can add comments to this blog or post them on the Tubal Reversal Message Board and he will to answer them. If you have specific questions that require privacy, or that may not be of interest to others, please send Dr. Split an e-mail to DrSplit@tubal-reversal.net and he will respond.
Dr. Berger’s Comment
The highest priority for patients who come to me for tubal reversal surgery to untie tubes is patient safety during and after surgery. This is ensured by the involvement of medical professionals who are the most highly trained and qualified specialists. Our two anesthesiologists are certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology. The anesthesiologist is the physician responsible for the monitoring and care of patients while they are asleep during their tubal reversal procedure and for their safe and comfortable recovery in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU). Dr. Split’s background in Emergency Medicine gives him an added dimension of knowledge and experience. On behalf of all of our staff, I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Split to Chapel Hill Surgical Center and Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.
January 1st, 2008 
New patients may want to learn about the relationship between Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center and Chapel Hill Surgical Center. They are interrelated health care organizations exclusively for the benefit of patients undergoing tubal reversal surgery.
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the name of my private practice. It is located on the second floor of a 2 story building at 109 Conner Drive in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Prior to 1997, Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center was known as Chapel Hill Fertility Center. During earlier years, complete diagnostic and treatment services were provided for all causes of infertility. Because it has always been my primary interest and special skill, I decided to limit my practice to tubal reparative surgery. I am the the only reproductive surgeon who performs tubal reversal surgery exclusively.
Chapel Hill Surgical Center
Chapel Hill Surgical Center is a licensed ambulatory surgical facility that occupies the first floor of 109 Conner Drive in Chapel Hill. This is where the tubal reversal procedures are performed. The facility has 3 operating rooms, a two-stage recovery room, and is staffed by a team of anesthesiologists, a nurse anesthetist, operating room nurses, recovery room nurses, surgical technologists, and an administrative staff. In the past, it was operated as a general ambulatory surgical center that included other doctors from many other surgical specialties. The facility was reorganized to provide tubal reconstructive surgery alone to allow all of the professional staff to concentrate on tubal reversal patients. This has led to the best medical care for women having a tubal reversal procedure.
A Unique Medical Organization
As the Medical Director of both facilities, I am assisted by a dedicated and highly trained staff of over 20 people who devote all of their efforts to caring for 4 couples a day having tubal reversal surgery. The staff to patient ratio (5:1) is higher than found in any other surgical center or hospital. This permits the most attentive and personalized medical care possible. There is no other medical organization like this anywhere else. Most patients learn about us from the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website, while others are referred by their doctors or previous patients. Couples come here from all 50 states in the US and from every continent around the world.
Our Mission
We take pride in being the premier medical facility for tubal ligation reversal. Our mission for 2008 is to restore hope, fertility, and the opportunity to have children for 800 more couples, as we have done each year in the past.
