News Release

June 14, 2011

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

Gynecologic Oncologist Joins UConn Health Center

Dr. Angela Kueck Brings Expertise in Robotic-assisted Surgery

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Angela Kueck, a gynecologic oncologist with expertise in minimally invasive and robotic surgery, is now seeing patients at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

Kueck’s areas of expertise include cervical and endometrial cancers as well as minimally invasive surgery. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology. She also is certified in da Vinci robotic surgery is the new medical director of the UConn Health Center’s robotics program.

Kueck joins the Health Center from the University of Michigan Medical Center, where she was a faculty physician and previously a gynecologic oncology fellow. She earned her medical degree and completed an ob-gyn residency at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

She is a resident of West Hartford.

To schedule an appointment, call 860-679-2100 or 800-579-7822. More information about the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center is available at http://cancer.uchc.edu.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/kueck.jpg
Caption: Dr. Angela Kueck, a women’s cancer specialist, is now seeing patients at the UConn Health Center’s Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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