Urogynecology & Female Pelvic Medicine
Robert E. Gutman, MD, FACOG
MedStar Health Urogynecology at Rockville
Dr. Robert E. Gutman is a urogynecologist and reconstructive pelvic surgeon with MedStar’s National Center for Advanced Pelvic Surgery, seeing Montgomery County patients at the Rockville office on Edson Lane.
Training and credentials
Dr. Gutman earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (Brown University), and finished a three-year fellowship in urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery at Johns Hopkins. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, and since 2017 has served as an oral board examiner for the subspecialty.
Why patients choose Dr. Gutman
He is a high-volume prolapse surgeon whose research output — more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters — has shaped how the field approaches vaginal mesh, native-tissue repair, and robotic sacrocolpopexy. Patients who have had a previous repair fail, or who were told their anatomy was too complex, are a large part of his referral base.
Clinical focus
Pelvic organ prolapse, urinary and fecal incontinence, overactive bladder, vaginal fistula, mesh complications and revision surgery, and robot-assisted reconstructive pelvic surgery.
Profile last fact-checked August 18, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Gutman compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering robotic & minimally invasive pelvic surgery
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name robotic & minimally invasive pelvic surgery.
The only Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine graduate we list
1 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record studied at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
We list 3 urogynecology & female pelvic medicine providers serving North Bethesda.
1 of 3 we list at MedStar Health Urogynecology at Rockville
We cover 3 providers at MedStar Health Urogynecology at Rockville.
2nd longest since qualifying of our 5 urogynecology & female pelvic medicine providers
Qualified in 1998. The median for the 5 urogynecology & female pelvic medicine providers whose year we record is 2002.
Medical school: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine — Cleveland, OH, United States.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Gutman sits by experience
Dr. Gutman finished medical school in 1998, 28 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 58 finished earlier, 71 finished later, and 5 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–1994Dr. Gutman1998
1995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–20092010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 54 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 — Dr. Gutman | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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