News Release

October 13, 2009

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu 

Dr. Erica Hammer Joins UConn Ob/Gyn Practice

Former Ob/Gyn Resident Now on Faculty

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Erica Hammer has joined the University of Connecticut Health Center’s obstetrics and gynecology practice.

In addition to seeing patients in the Charlotte Johnson Hollfelder Center for Women's Health on Monday and Tuesday evenings, Hammer is an ob/gyn hospitalist. Hospitalists are physicians who treat admitted patients.

Hammer completed her residency training at the UConn Health Center and is now an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UConn School of Medicine. Her medical doctorate is from the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

She is a resident of West Hartford.

To schedule an appointment, call 800-535-6232 or 860-679-7692.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/hammer.jpg
Caption: Dr. Erica Hammer has joined the UConn Health Center’s ob-gyn practice and is a hospitalist at John Dempsey Hospital.

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