Dr. Polaneczky received her undergraduate degree from Villanova University and a master's degree in biology at New York University. After receiving her medical degree in 1984 from Temple University School of Medicine, she trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After completing her training, Dr. Polaneczky served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for four years, where she was director of the Adolescent Pregnancy Program, and gynecologic consultant to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Polaneczky moved to New York City to join the Weill Medical College faculty in 1993. In addition maintaining a practice in gynecology there she has served as medical director of Women's Health, the Teenage Pregnancy and Prevention (TAPP) program and the Maternal-Newborn HIV Counseling and Testing Program at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. In August 2000, she became one of the first physicians in the United States to be certified as a menopause clinician by the North American Menopause Society.
Dr. Polaneczky has published and lectured extensively in the fields of contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and adolescent gynecology. She conducted some of the first post-marketing studies of Norplant and Depo-Provera in the United States, and has participated in several clinical trials of new contraceptives in both adults and adolescents. Along with Dr. Steven Witkin, she has pioneered the use of self-testing for chlamydia infections in women. Dr. Polaneczky is also the editorial director of Women's Health for Healthology.com. She serves as a consultant to several major pharmaceutical companies, and is frequently quoted in the lay press.
Dr. Polaneczky is a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is also a member of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and the Society for Adolescent Medicine.
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