Dr. Teresa Tam, MD, FACOG, FACS is Board certified by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is a fully licensed physician and surgeon by the State of Illinois (license no.: 036.093565). She has been in private practice since 1998. In 2013, she founded All for Women Healthcare, SC, in Chicago, Illinois.
Medical Education
Dr. Tam actually began her medical career as a medical technologist, having received her bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Soon after her undergraduate graduation, she was accepted at the Rosalind Franklin Chicago Medical School, where she received her medical degree (MD) and the Dean’s Award at her graduation in 1994. She undertook her four-year residency obstetrics and gynecology at St. Joseph Hospital, graduating the program in 1998. She has been in private practice since then.
Dr. Tam’s greatest interest was in gynecologic surgery. In 2012, well into a highly successful, 14 year medical career, she took a sabbatical from her private practice to undertake an intensive fellowship program in Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery (MIGS) at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She left Chicago and moved to Hershey, Pennsylvania for that one year program.
During her fellowship, she received advanced training in laparoscopic surgery and robotically-assisted surgery using the da Vinci® Robotic Surgical System. There, she performed hundreds of minimally invasive surgeries each month, under the guidance of the most skilled surgeons in the country. In addition to her surgeries, she also published seven medical research papers and mentored the ob/gyne residents at the hospital.
She graduated her fellowship in June 2013, and returned to Chicago to start her new private practice, “All for Women Healthcare, SC,“ located in the Presence Center for Advanced Care building at 2845 N. Sheridan Road, Suite 902.
Medical Professor and Researcher
Dr. Tam was the Associate Director of the Obstetrics & Gynecology residency program Saint Joseph Hospital for 10 years before undertaking her fellowship in 2012. Currently, she is the Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Ascension Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois as well as attending physician at Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital, Ascension Saint Mary Hospital, Rush University Medical Center, Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, and Thorek Memorial Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Tam is also a published author and accomplished medical researcher. Her two books, “Ambulatory Gynecology” and “The Vaginal Pessary” were published in 2018 and 2019 respectively. She has also been published in a number of professional medical journals. To date, she has written over 13 research papers and produced a series of medical education videos.
As a noted speaker at national and international medical conferences, Dr. Tam has presented over two dozen oral presentations, abstracts, videos, and poster presentations combined. She has been called back to the annual conference of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) to present her lecture on the vaginal pessary, for the past six year, which led to the publishing of her book, “The Vaginal Pessary“.
She was awarded “Attending of the Year“ and received the “National Faculty Award“, an unprecedented seven times as Associate Director of the Ob/Gyne residency program at Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, and as an attending physician and mentor at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston.
Besides medicine and surgery, Dr. Tam’s other passion is running… a lot of running! Over the past 20+ years, she has run in no less than 34 marathons (26.2 miles each). She has completed marathons all over the U.S. and the world including the Chicago Marathon (5 times), Las Vegas, Disney World, New York, Washington, DC, Rome, and Paris, just to name a few. She was featured in the news article, “50 Chicago Women in Sports“, appearing in Windy City Sports – Chicago’s Fitness & Recreation Guide Magazine (1997).
Thanks to her athletic experience, Dr. Tam fully understands the needs of female athletes. She has helped many women face the special health challenges in their athletic lifestyle. It is no surprise that many of Dr. Tam’s patients are athletes themselves. They love the fact that their doctor can identify with their unique needs as women athletes.
In all, Dr. Tam shows genuine understanding, concern, and compassion for all her patients. She takes the time to listen to their needs, as well as advise and educate them. As an accomplished clinician and minimally invasive gyne surgeon with over 20 years professional experience, together with her MIGS fellowship training, Dr. Tam brings an exceptionally high level of expertise and knowledge to her field, coupled with her warm and caring bedside manner for all her patients.