Dr. Carol Ritter:

Dr Carol Ritter is a practicing OB/GYN in private practice in Towson, Maryland since 1987.  Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Dr Ritter received her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin.  She completed her residency in OB/GYN in 1987 at The Greater Baltimore Medical Center.  In 2004 she stopped delivering babies and now focuses on all aspects of gynecology including menopause, incontinence, fibroids, endometriosis, prolapse, and reproduction.  She is presently the Director of Women's Minimally Invasive Surgery at GBMC and and actively teaches the Johns Hopkins GYN residents as well as keeping the surgical staff updated with courses profiling the latest MIS technologies and techniques for the OR.Dr Ritter is politically active with organized medicine and women's reproductive health issues.  She was the 2012 President of the Baltimore County Medical Society. In response to the medical malpractice crisis in 2004 she and her husband, Tom Ritter, produced, directed and starred in a film called "If the Bough Breaks: the Medical Malpractice Crisis in Maryland". She participated in an informational radio program called The Medical Hour from 2011-2013. Her involvement with the Center for Transnational Women began in 2004 when working to educate legislators on the Single Payer Health Care System.  She is collaborating with fellow C4TNW colleagues Ayse Daya and Brigitte Marti on a project comparing reproductive rights policies in Turkey, France and the USA. Since stopping OB in the States, Dr Ritter travels to developing countries to deliver medical care to women who have never seen a gynecologist in their lifetime.  Countries have included Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti and the 9th Ward in New Orleans after Katrina.  She has been performing PAP smears and HPV testing on women in the Port au Prince women`s prison and mountains of Haiti since 2005 and is collaborating with Mayo Clinic, Health Behind Walls and IMA (imaonline.org) to follow up on treatments of the cervical cancers diagnosed.Dr Ritter can be reached at her office in Towson at 410-296-2557