Dr. Julie A. Madejski

Dr. Julie A. Madejski, a gynecologist and surgeon, is a progressive doctor, providing, besides physician’s care, massage therapy, Reiki, and holistic medicine for her patients at Artemis Center for Health and Wellness, Western New York's Holistic Gynecology Practice in Lockport .
She teaches empowerment and offers counseling and chiropractic care to women. In addition to traditional gynecology services, the center offers counseling for individuals and couples, chiropractic care, nutritional counseling, massage therapy, yoga classes, Reiki, and Anti-aging services of Microdermabrasion, and Bioidentical Hormone Replacement therapy.
Dr. Madejski offers the best of all healing alternatives, and she’s not afraid to challenge the status quo.
“I have a big pet peeve with the standard operating procedure of Western medicine,” Dr. Madejski said. “Our system seems to be to wait until people get chronic diseases and then go from there. I feel like medicine is ruled by the pharmaceutical companies who really have no interest in getting Americans well. They really would rather have you stay on a blood pressure medication or a cholesterol medication. So you have this vicious cycle of not dealing with the root problem, which is not preventing chronic disease, but treating chronic disease.”
Dr. Madejski founded the Artemis Center in 2008. Located on Snyder Drive in the South Lockport Medical Campus the center focuses on proactive medicine.
“When it comes to health and wellness, I’d like for women to be more independent,” Dr. Madejski said. “Particularly with women, empowerment becomes an issue. So many people feel disempowered when it comes to their health. There’s a higher rate of depression in women when compared to men. And I think a lot of that is borne out of feeling helpless, or feeling powerless to make changes.
“Artemis was designed to inspire people to take a look at their health more broadly and to help people realize that chronic diseases are often lifestyle related… related to deeper things, such as not controlling your stress, or being in unhealthy relationships, or having unhealthy finances.”
When it comes to surgery, Dr. Madejski is an expert with more than 15 years in practice. At Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center she has found her niche in the hospital’s “robot room.”
“The advent of the robot is a total game changer,” Dr. Madejski said. “Basically, the attraction to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center was that they offered a training program for surgeons like me – who were experienced laproscopic surgeons – to become trained to use the robot. It’s a win-win for both of us.”
At Memorial, Dr. Madejski uses SAL the robot to assist her in surgery. Using the robot results in smaller incisions, less blood loss, less postoperative pain, and allows patients to return to work faster.
“The bigger picture, from the patient point of view, is that the entire surgery can be done much less invasively and traumatically because of the elegance of the robot,” she said.
Patients lose about 25 cc’s of blood compared with 300 to 400 cc’s with open surgery.
“It’s just a fraction of the blood loss,” she said.
Dr. Madejski said patients are often amazed at how fast they recover from robot-assisted surgery.
“I saw one of my patients yesterday, who had a hysterectomy two weeks ago, and her comment was: ‘I really wouldn’t have guessed I had surgery.’
“Usually, an open (non-robotic) surgery requires two hours in surgery, three days in the hospital and then with a desk job you’d be out of work for six weeks.”
Most patients that undergo a hysterectomy with robot-assisted surgery go home the next day.
“You can go back to work in as little as two weeks,” she said.
Dr. Madejski is a board certified obstetrician/gynecologist. She graduated from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester .
Dr. Madejski is presently on the medical staff of Eastern Niagara Hospital and Kaleida Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital . She is also an instructor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Practitioner-Member of the American Holistic Health Association.
After residency, Dr. Madejski worked in a busy Ob/Gyn group practice for three years. After the birth of her second child, she said she realized that the busy life of an obstetrician was tapping all of her energy. She decided to give up obstetrics and open a solo practice in order to concentrate on gynecology and women's health. She said she also sought a more balanced lifestyle, to live healthier and have more time for family and friends. In doing this, she discovered a love of music and fitness training and discovered how professionals in other health disciplines had a lot to offer to women's health care.
The Artemis Center for Health and Wellness aspires to provide a forum for holistic and integrative health care. In addition to a complement of skilled practitioners, the center hosts a variety of educational and community events. More information can be found at http://www.artemiswellness.com.