Seckin Endometriosis Center

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Seckin Endometriosis Center Endometriosis Specialist & GYN Surgeon
Co-Founder of EndoFound
Advancing care through expert excision surgery, research, and education
đź“Ť New York, NY

Tamer Seckin, MD, is a Board Certified gynecologist and internationally renowned specialist in minimally invasive laparoscopic endometriosis surgery. He is in private practice in New York City with more than 30 years of experience. Dr. Seckin is the co-founder and medical director of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, and has dedicated his life to the understanding and treatment of this little-known disease.

10/07/2026

Healing begins long before the operating room. It starts with being heard.

For so many women with endometriosis, the hardest part of the journey is not the diagnosis or the surgery. It’s the years of feeling dismissed. As physicians, we have to listen first.

Grateful to share this message with my colleagues at the 35th Annual ESGE Congress in KrakĂłw, Poland.

You’ve probably seen the headlines about new tests that claim to diagnose endometriosis without surgery. I get a lot of ...
10/05/2026

You’ve probably seen the headlines about new tests that claim to diagnose endometriosis without surgery.

I get a lot of questions about them, so I was glad Maggie Astor of The New York Times asked me and my esteemed colleagues Dr. Katherine Burns, Dr. Stacey Missmer, Dr. Ted Lee, Christine Metz, Dr. Semir Beyaz, Dr. Hugh Taylor, and Dr. Ja Hyun Shin to weigh in.

A test can look impressive when it’s studied mostly in patients who already have endometriosis. The real challenge is the patient in my office whose pain could be endometriosis or one of several other conditions.

That’s where a diagnostic test has to prove itself.

People with endometriosis have waited far too long for a faster diagnosis, and they deserve one they can trust. An unproven test risks sending them down the wrong path and delaying the care they need.

Until the evidence catches up, trust your symptoms and find a specialist who listens.

Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/well/live/endometriosis-diagnosis-tests.html

09/30/2026

T. Albertini asked a great question on my last post: why does adenomyosis cause GI symptoms?

Many patients don’t mention their GI symptoms to their gynecologist because they assume it’s a separate problem. It isn’t.

If your pelvic pain comes with GI symptoms, they’re connected.

To our hero, our mentor, the person who has led us all on this journey: Happy Birthday, Dr. Harry Reich. We met more tha...
09/29/2026

To our hero, our mentor, the person who has led us all on this journey: Happy Birthday, Dr. Harry Reich.

We met more than 30 years ago, jogging in Maui. I was eager to learn everything I could about laparoscopic surgery, and Harry was the man who was inventing it.

In 1988, he performed the first laparoscopic hysterectomy. He went on to perform the first pelvic lymphadenectomy for cancer and the first excision of cul-de-sac endometriosis with re**al resection. More than 4,000 laparoscopies, countless publications and lectures, and a generation of surgeons trained in techniques that simply didn’t exist before him.

Every excision surgeon working today stands on his shoulders. I know I do.

Harry, thank you for your brilliance, your courage in the OR, and your friendship all these years. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead.

09/29/2026

Painful periods. Heavy bleeding. Pain with intimacy. GI symptoms.

This is what that can look like inside. My patient’s scan shows extensive adenomyosis: a thickened, uneven uterine wall with heavy blood flow. She also had two children, both by C-section.

Your symptoms have a source.

09/23/2026

Not so long ago, women came through our doors in pain, asking for help, and were made to feel as though they had a sexually transmitted disease. Instead of answers, they were met with shame and suspicion.

I shared this at Elysara Medical’s Endometriosis Care Continuum this weekend because we cannot move forward without being honest about where we’ve been.

Acknowledging the mistakes of the past is how we make sure they are never repeated, and how we create real change for women’s health.

08/26/2026

One of my favorite singers, and one of the great lights of our time.

Dolly Parton didn’t just give us decades of unforgettable music, she used her voice for all people, for health, for dignity. A true pioneer who spoke up when it mattered, again and again.

Rest peacefully, Dolly. Thank you for the songs, the courage, and everything you gave the world.


Dolly was a truly amazing. Her courage, generosity, and honesty touched so many lives, including ours in the endometrios...
08/25/2026

Dolly was a truly amazing. Her courage, generosity, and honesty touched so many lives, including ours in the endometriosis community. She will be deeply missed.

08/22/2026

A fertility specialist called endometriosis “overmarketed.” He’s since apologized, good. But the deeper issue remains: medicine trusts what it can measure, and dismisses what it can’t.

You can measure blood pressure. You can measure glucose. You can’t measure a woman’s pain.

For years, patients with have been told their pain is normal. It isn’t. And you deserved better than to be told otherwise.

Endometriosis isn’t a disease of the ovaries, it’s systemic. This disease’s most important diagnostic tool has always been the same: a patient saying they are experiencing pain.

You were never overreacting. Believe them.

08/04/2026

If you needed this reminder today, it’s for you.

Never stop believing you deserve answers, better care, and a future that’s bigger than this disease.

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872 5th Avenue
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