Physicians join Bee Street Women's Practice
Theirs is a generally happy field of medicine, they said.
From
left are Drs. Patricia Litts, Michael Armstrong and Andrea Thurman.
They’re the three OB/GYN physicians—two of them women—who recently joined MUSC’s Women’s Practice at 30 Bee Street: Patty Litts, M.D., Annie Thurman, M.D., and Michael Armstrong, M.D. To them, a profession dedicated to women’s health, one that helps bring new life into the world, is quite satisfying.
Patricia L. Litts, M.D.
“It’s the blend of science and helping people that I enjoy about my
field,” Litts said. In the few months she has been practicing at 30 Bee
Street, Litts has seen many who see only her for their medical care, she
said. Her patients include a number of women in their 40s, 50s and older
and she sees her focus being more and more on preventive medicine—prevention
of osteoporosis and early detection of cervical, breast and colon cancers.
Litts comes to MUSC from a private OB/GYN practice in the Washington, D.C., area where her husband, a hand surgeon, served in the U.S. Army.
She earned her medical degree from the University of Health Sciences’ Chicago Medical School, was an intern in obstetrics and gynecology at Hutzel Hospital in Detroit and completed her residency there in 1995.
Litts has held faculty positions in Boston, Philadelphia and now is an assistant professor of OB/GYN at MUSC. She practiced at hospitals in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maryland before coming to South Carolina.
She is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is the recipient of numerous awards for her teaching and research.
Andrea Thurman, M.D.
“Obstetrics and gynecology is an exciting field,” Thurman said, “and
it’s usually happy.”
An assistant professor and board certified obstetrician/gynecologist, Thurman left her position as an instructor in an accredited OB/GYN residency training program at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. She comes to MUSC with experience in labor and delivery at Reston Hospital Center in Reston, Va., and as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan.
Thurman’s M.D. is from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She was a resident physician in the Combined Residency Program at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
An accomplished artist with an undergraduate degree with honors in both studio art and chemistry, Thurman has exhibited her paintings in Alexandria, Va., Washington, D.C., and in a number of international exhibitions in Japan.
She is a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Michael Armstrong, M.D.
Armstrong splits his schedule to include his practice at 30 Bee St.,
training residents, staffing a North Area clinic and time in the OR. It’s
a change of pace that he says he enjoys. “And you never know your hours.
A baby comes when he wants to.”
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC’s School of Medicine, Armstrong completed an obstetrics and gynecology program at the University of Virginia prior to his appointment at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and MUSC Women’s Health.
As an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill, Armstrong was a John Motley Morehead Scholar and lettered in varsity football. In medical school he was the recipient of the Medical Alumni Loyalty Fund Scholarship, the More-head Medical Scholarship and the Womack Whitson Scholarship.
While at the University of Virginia, Armstrong was active as a volunteer at the Charlottesville Free Clinic. He participated in a student-run program teaching health sciences to at-risk middle school students while at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Armstrong holds professional memberships in the American Medical Association
and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
- We are happy to welcome
Drs. Patricia Litts, Andrea Thurman and Michael Armstrong
to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and MUSC Women’s Health.
All are the products of excellent training programs and are interested
in teaching and research as well as providing the ideal patient encounter.
Their skills and interests make them uniquely qualified to join our faculty
in providing excellent, cutting-edge, patient care, while enhancing our
overall mission in resident and student education as well as research.
—David E. Soper, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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