The Medical Center At Cold Spring

Charles Scott, MD, is a sports medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Hudson Valley and an assistant professor of rehabilitation and regenerative medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr...

Pavan Kumar Ananth, MD, is an obstetrician and gynecologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Hudson Valley. Dr. Ananth specializes in advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery and offers minimally invasive surgical techniques for a range of procedures...

Dr. Charles graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in chemistry from the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ. She later graduated from Drexel University School of Medicine in 2001. She went on to train at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC where she acted a Chief Resident. In July 2005 Dr. Charles joined the Army and served as active duty military physician at Ft Riley, KS. In 2007 she was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. After returning from Afghanistan in 2008 she was appointed Chief of the OB/GYN department at Irwin Army Community Hospital in Ft Riley, KS.Dr Charles is board certified in general Obstetrics and Gynecology. She manages normal as well as high risk obstetrics complicated by hypertension, gestational diabetes, twin pregnancies. She is interested in VBAC, water births (first delivery at Hudson Valley Hospital was a water birth). She also works in conjuction with doulas. She offers a wide range of services in gynecology including minimally invasive laparascopic surgery, family planning and contraception, adolescent health counseling, menopausal management, urinary incontinence and infertility. She provides outpatient office procedures such as Essure vaginal sterilization, endometrial ablation, hysteroscopy.