Dr. Ronald Ackerman: Ob/Gyn Practicing In The Wellington Area Since 1984 By Deborah Welky
Looking for a doctor with experience? Dr. Ronald T. Ackerman has been an obstetrician/gynecologist in the western communities since 1984, when he started a solo practice here. Ackerman had been offered a position at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, where he was chief resident, but wanted to move to Florida so his children could be near both sets of their grandparents. Today, Ackerman is part of the team at Advanced Women’s Ob/Gyn Associates, the result of the April 2010 merger of two ob/gyn practices on the campus of Palms West Hospital. “We merged to expand on the ability to cover obstetrical services and to combine areas of strength and expertise, focusing on all areas of women’s health, both preventative and therapeutic,” Ackerman said. The six doctors within the group — Dr. Ronald T. Ackerman, his son Dr. Joshua S. Ackerman, Dr. Steven Pliskow, Dr. Sharon Dai, Dr. Raul Valdescruz and Dr. Marcos Kornstein — offer complete gynecological services, obstetrics (high-risk and low-risk), fertility services, advanced operative laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, colposcopy for early diagnosis of precancerous conditions, advanced contraceptive techniques, evaluation and treatment of perimenopause and menopause, bioidentical natural hormone therapy, cervical cancer screenings/vaccinations, 3D ultrasound and mammography. Of special interest to Ackerman is preventive medicine for women through the HPV virus vaccine, pap smears and cervical cancer prevention. He has also delivered a paper on
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perimenopause and menopause to the North American Medical Society. And, although he no longer regularly practices obstetrics himself, his son Joshua has “carried the baton,” adding a focus on robotics and advanced operative laparoscopy, surgery with minimal incision and blood loss. “All those years, I told him not to play so many video games,” his father recalled, “and it only worked to help him.” It was the senior Ackerman who delivered the first baby ever born at Palms West Hospital. He was founding director for the hospital’s Your New Life Center in the 1990s and was chairman of quality assurance there and vice chairman of the board. “Joshua always wanted to work with me,” Ackerman said. “I used to take him on rounds with me when he was a little boy and let him sit at the nursing station with a coloring book while I met with my patients. Some of those nurses are still working at the ob/gyn unit, and patients absolutely adore him.” Today, in addition to his practice, the elder Ackerman is assistant clinical professor at Nova Southeastern School of Medicine. He is on the faculty of Kansas City University’s School of Medicine & Biosciences, has published numerous articles on menopause and continues at Palms West Hospital as clinical rotation director.
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