General Info

Dr. Judy Simms-Cendan is the Division Director of Pediatric Adolescent Gynecologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine OBGYN department.Dr. Simms-Cendan graduated from the University of Miami with her Bachelor BS Degree, and from the University of Florida College of Medicine with her MD degree. She completed her residency training in OBGYN at the University of Florida in 1995, then served on the faculty and started a Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology weekly clinic. She joined the founding faculty at the UCF College of Medicine in 2010 and opened the first practice in Florida fully dedicated to Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology patients in 2010 at Winnie Palmer Hospital in Orlando and founded a combined hematology/gynecology for adolescent girls with heavy menses and bleeding disorders in 2017. In July 2021 she joined the University of Miami faculty to develop dedicated clinics for Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology care.Dr. Simms-Cendan enjoys her patients and their families understand and improve their reproductive health. She has written national guidelines for care of adolescents with heavy menses and bleeding disorders and complex cardiac conditions, and international advocacy statements to call attention to the need for improved care for adolescents girls with menstrual disorders.