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The NJ Women’s Wellness Center at Montvale Health Associates is directed by Dr. Cindy Parnes, a compassionate physician who invests herself in each patient with the belief that the best doctors know how to listen.
The NJ Women’s Wellness Center was created by Dr. Parnes and Susan Albino, Director of Women’s Services, as a local resource where women can find help with all aspects and stages of women’s wellness from adolescent medicine to menopause.
In addition to gynecological care and educational seminars, the Center offers bio-identical hormone counseling; non-hormonal treatment options; genetic testing for breast, ovarian and colon cancer; vitamin, mineral and antioxidant testing along with vitamin and supplement counseling with a PhD in pharmacology; medical evaluation of weight gain, Syndrome W and nutritional counseling with a Registered Dietitian and personal counseling with a Licensed Therapist.
Looking healthy doesn’t mean you are healthy. The latest important trend in creating wellness combines traditional and complementary approaches to understanding your underlying health status. Our team approach of experienced professionals, working together, in one location, providing comprehensive physical and emotional care to each woman is unique and in the forefront of quality medical services.
The NJ Women’s Wellness Center Offers…
The NJ Women’s Wellness Center approaches wellness on a functional level, both physically and emotionally, and allows experts to assess and manage your health goals…
Dr. Parnes offers complete gynecological care as she invests herself in each patient to carefully evaluate overall health and family history in counseling women on treatment options for improving their quality of life, including menopause management through bio-identical hormone therapy and alternative non-hormonal treatments, and genetic testing for breast, ovarian, endometrial and colon cancer.
We also specialize in mid-life weight loss through medical assessment and medication for insulin resistance with Dr. Parnes and nutritional counseling with Nancy Cohen-Knee, Registered Dietician, who concentrates on women’s weight control and Syndrome W.
The NJWWC provides cellular health evaluation with Dr. Tara Fricke, PharmD, to determine a woman’s functional level of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which provide a window to your immune status that can decrease the risk of cancer, heart disease and aging.
And virtual counseling through Counseling2Go with Debra Borden, LCSW, offers psychotherapy for anxiety, phobias, women’s issues and life transitions to women in the privacy of their homes, our office or virtually anywhere at the convenience and comfort of her clients.
For more information, please visit Dr. Parnes’ website at: www.cindyparnesmd.com
The NJ Women’s Wellness Center is currently accepting new patients.
Call today for an appointment
201-326-4766
Patient Testimonials
I was so glad I noticed the article and attended "Women Rock".
The presentation was informative... and very comfortable being with interested women... AND the refreshments were great too!
It's about time... "By the women... For the women... and, With the women"!
Thanks so much.
I just wanted to thank you and Dr. Parnes for inviting me to the Women Rock event at the Florentine Gardens. My colleague, Diane and I were thrilled with the spirit of giving we felt in the room that night.
We are very interested in improving the lives of women in the community, specifically those living with breast cancer.
I knew 17 years ago when I would see you for my visits that you were just brilliant. It amazes me when I calculated the years how fast time really does go. I came to see you actually for my yearly visit and that was it. I didn't realize anything could be done for the symptoms I was having because two years ago I was told nothing is wrong you have to deal with this for about ten years.
Well, as you were so positive in your response that you can fix this and we removed my IUD. I wanted to tell you that, I have not had night sweats in three days, I lost 4 pounds probably water weight, and I haven't been bleeding, face and body swelling has reduced so much. I feel like I just delivered a baby and my body is returning back to normal.
I want you to know that your diagnosis and brilliant medical care is what impacts change and helps so many. I don't know how to thank you or what I can do to thank you. I wake up and just think of you that's how much different my life has become.. I tell everyone about you.
Thank you again so much, it was great seeing you.
I saw you last spring for menopausal problems. I was getting too many hot flashes in a day. You had asked me about the BRACA test. The following day I sent my report to my gynecologist as well as my breast surgeon.
I thought it was going to be an outpatient procedure to remove my tubes and ovaries. However, in recovery, the doctor advised that I actually had ovarian cancer. I just completed my sixth and final chemo treatment last Friday. I was fortunate that it was just Stage II.
I am so grateful for you insisting on the seriousness of the test. I had held onto it too long without sharing it with my doctors. So, I owe you a great big thank you. I feel that I am starting with a clean bill of health in 2012.
I started gaining weight regularly after I turned 50. My midsection really spread out. I tried to diet and exercise but nothing seemed to work. I called Dr. Parnes at Informed Female to setup an appointment. Dr. Parnes asked me some pointed questions and I felt for the first time someone had really listened. I was scheduled for blood work and one week later was put on medication for my insulin resistance. I also met with Nancy Knee, the nutritionist who started me on a low Glycemic diet. The weight has been melting off. I am eating things I love to eat and made only slight adjustments to the foods I had been eating. Each month, I identify a new set of “fat” clothes to give away and I have never felt better about myself.
Thank you Dr Parnes and Nancy!
Pictures were taken on my 50th Birthday, I was miserable to be 50 and to look like this, increasing weight gain without explanation. I had always eaten “healthy”, but too much healthy, but the weight kept coming on, and all efforts to lose... failed, the weight and bad cholesterol skyrocketed.
I thank my lucky stars the day I “failed” the 2 hour glucose test and started the Insulin Resistant Weight loss and Management program. The medication along with a revised “healthy diet”- more protein, less GOOD carbs and increased daily walking has help to shed 34 lbs and 2 full dress sizes. I feel human and healthy again.
Thank you, Dr. Parnes!
