Find out more about your options for surgery, get a second opinion
or make an appointment with one of our specialists.
Your doctor may recommend surgery for many reasons. Surgical procedures can help relieve pain, reduce symptoms, improve or restore function, find problems, repair or replace malfunctioning organs and tissues or save your life.
When you or a loved one need a surgical procedure, you want the highest level of expertise from dedicated professionals with extensive education, training and experience who also develop and use innovative techniques that help you heal as quickly as possible.
Find out more about your options for surgery, get a second opinion
or make an appointment with one of our specialists.
That’s why you want to choose the surgery specialists at OU Health in Oklahoma City, Edmond and Tulsa. You and your doctors and specialists will work with a team of surgical experts and healthcare providers from multiple disciplines, surgery specialties and subspecialties, and related services to review your particular situation and develop a personalized treatment plan to address your specific needs.
In addition, you gain access to the ongoing scientific research and clinical trials of Oklahoma’s only academic health system, where pioneering discoveries and continual developments translate into improvements in surgical services for you and everyone in Oklahoma and across our region.
At OU Health, you may take advantage of a wide range of surgical procedures and techniques, including traditional open surgery using incisions of various sizes that allow your surgeon to directly see inside your body. If needed after a procedure at OU Health hospitals, you’re assured of receiving top-notch surgery critical care to support your short-term recovery and long-term positive outcomes.
If appropriate for your condition, your doctor or care team may recommend minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery that incorporates high-definition image guidance and precision technology to allow for smaller incisions that can help speed your healing. Minimally invasive techniques, including laparoscopy, often can apply to conditions ranging from hernia repair and thyroid or gallbladder removal to knee replacement, benign growths or abdominal and intestinal issues, among others. This approach also may allow you and your doctor or care team to consider same-day surgery as an option for many procedures, including diagnostic biopsy, that once required a hospital stay.
Whether you and your care team choose a traditional open procedure or minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery, you can rely on the experienced surgeons and specialists at OU Health to perform the procedure you need for nearly any health condition, including:
For children and adolescents who need surgery, you can trust the extensively trained pediatric surgeons at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health who understand that children’s growing bodies need specialized approaches to surgical care. You benefit from surgery services for children tailored to fit the specific needs of each child or teen.
The board-certified, fellowship-trained surgery specialists and others on your OU Health multidisciplinary care team both perform your procedure and serve as faculty members who teach the next generation of healthcare and surgical professionals. You benefit from their participation in the latest research, experiments and clinical trials to help develop and refine advanced techniques and innovative treatments that help improve your care.
That’s also where OU Health surgery professionals teach the next generation of surgeons who carry on the rich history and tradition of top-quality healthcare and exceptional surgical education designed to ensure you and your fellow Oklahomans receive the surgery services you need to live full and healthful lives.
Your expert OU Health surgery care team may include internationally recognized, top-notch surgeons who invented or perfected innovative techniques that help speed your recovery. Your team also may involve surgical residents, interns, nurses and healthcare specialists from multiple disciplines who focus on helping you achieve the best possible outcomes for your specific situation.
“I was fearful of the surgery; I’d never had surgery in my life. But I knew I was in very good hands, literally. I trusted everything Dr. Reinersman told me. And now I’m here and doing great. It’s been an incredible journey.”
- Carla“I have nicknamed Dr. (Matthew) Reinersman my rock star because he performed a surgery that I thought was unavailable. I was out of the hospital in 48 hours, and I was basically back to normal with my regular exercise in another week. Nobody could believe I had just gone through lung cancer surgery.”
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