Most people who find Dr. Vargas have already seen multiple providers. They have had ultrasounds that came back normal, laparoscopies that found nothing, or surgeries that provided temporary relief before symptoms returned. What those evaluations often missed was not the absence of disease. It was the depth of it.

Endometriosis that infiltrates the bowel, bladder, diaphragm, or pelvic nerves does not reliably appear on standard imaging. It requires a surgeon who knows where to look before the patient is ever in the OR. Dr. Vargas has developed advanced skills with  pre-operative ultrasound mapping over the past 10 years with the focus of optimizing outcomes of complex endometriosis surgery. She offers ultrasound mapping to every surgical patient. The diagnostic framework she uses is used by specialist centers internationally and defines the location, depth, and extent of disease before surgery begins. It changes what the surgeon plans for, what specialists join the case, and what is possible once the OR team is assembled. 

Dr. Vargas completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, then pursued fellowship training in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at George Washington University under Dr. James Robinson and Dr. Gaby Moawad. She later served as Chief of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery for Johns Hopkins Medicine in the National Capital Region, where she developed the endometriosis program. Her focus throughout has been the cases that require advanced skill, beyond what a general gynecologist can offer: deeply infiltrating endometriosis involving multiple organ systems, recurrent disease after previous surgery, and patients whose symptoms have never been fully explained.

She co-founded WECS because the surgical environment most endometriosis patients need does not exist in a standard gynecology practice. Excision surgery performed by a fellowship-trained surgeon, pre-operative mapping that defines disease before incision, and collaboration with colorectal, urology, and thoracic surgery already in the room when the anatomy requires it. That is the practice she built.