MEET Dr. Evelyn Reynolds, who was in Guyana recently and assisted some cancer patients in which she performed several successful surgeries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) during her visiting oncology (cancer treatment) voluntary programme with a group of local doctors.

Her expertise was utilised having spent one week in Guyana after which she met with the obstetrician/gynaecologist (oby/gyn) team.

Dr. Evelyn said she saw patients at the GPHC women’s clinic on Monday and Tuesday for that week and most of them were patients who were there for routine follow-up or review of their current management and treatment plan.

She added that there were also several new patients who required new treatment plans or surgery and on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the same week she performed successful surgeries on eight patients at GPHC.

Although she was born and raised in Rochester, New York, she has Guyanese roots because her parents are Guyanese and resided in Berbice before migrating many years ago.

Dr. Reynolds told the Guyana Chronicle that her father’s name is William Reynolds and was from West Coast Berbice while, her mother is Evelyn and she is from Corentyne.

She stated that they both were trained in the nursing profession in Berbice and her mother is actually celebrating her 50th reunion of her batch this year.

Dr. Reynolds noted that her father passed away in 2005, but prior to that her parents built a house and clinic in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

She said that her mother still travels to and from Guyana about three times per year and she is the 4th of their five children.

Dr. Reynolds said she attended Princeton University where she did undergraduate studies, and then did her medical and ob/gyn residency training at the University of Rochester Medical Centre.

She said: “I then did my subspecialty training in gyn oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Since completing fellowship I have worked at the University of Kansas Cancer Centre in Kansas City.”

Dr. Reynolds noting that Guyana does not have any gyn oncology specialists said she heard about the opportunity from other gyn oncologists who have volunteered in the past and took the opportunity to do some volunteer work here of which she did not mind at all.

(By Michel Outridge)