Warwick Valley High Graduate receives prestigious fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center

WARWICK — Dr. Abigail Woglom-Meigh, a 2001 graduate of Warwick Valley High School, has successfully completed her residency in anesthesia with St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J.
On Aug. 1, she will begin a one-year fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, filling one of two prestigious positions sought after by more than 2,000 applicants.
Woglom-Meigh earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem in 2012.

'A student of medicine'

Woglom-Meigh’s medical education began when was a student at Warwick Valley High School where she participated in the district’s New Visions Medical program.
She earned her Bachelor of Science Nursing degree from University of Connecticut in 2006 and immediately became a surgical ICU nurse at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
Within two years, Woglom-Meigh was back in school, this time seeking her osteopathic medicine degree at Touro.
She is the daughter of Sally and Thom Woglom of Warwick.

Inspired by her uncle

“Abby is a student of medicine," her father, Thom Woglom said. "In addition to terrific guidance by her mom (Sally is a third grade teacher at Park Avenue School) she was inspired by her Uncle Jay.
"Before his death in 2002," Woglom added, "Jay was well known for his own nursing practice which included training and speaking engagements at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey that brought new innovations to anesthesia practices.”
Jay Woglom also travelled with Doctors Without Borders. He passed away from brain cancer but not before participating in studies to help the medical community at UMDNJ gain a better understanding of brain tumors.

Research

Part of Woglom-Meigh’s journey included providing necessary research which aided FDA-approval for Columbia Presbyterian to offer a trans-catheter aortic value replacement surgery, which is regarded as a tremendous break though in heart surgery.
Her research, which was a quantitative assessment that analyzes an enzyme to determine a frailty index to withstand surgery, was published in the American Journal of Medicine in 2010.
The doctor is married to Dr. Matthew Meigh, an Emergency Room attending physician at Orange Regional Medical Center in the Town of Wallkill.