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Dr. Gary
Helmbrecht

Partner Physician @ Prenatal Diagnosis Center

Charlottesville, Virginia

Dr. Gary Helmbrecht is a registered Obstetrician and Gynecologist that specializes in maternal-fetal medicine. Dr. Gary Helmbrecht earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, and went on to earn his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. After graduating in 1984, Dr. Gary Helmbrecht accepted an obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and became a board-certified OB/GYN. Then in 1992, Dr. Gary Helmbrecht made the decision to specialize further when he attended a Georgetown University School of Medicine fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine. By 1994, Dr. Gary Helmbrecht was certified in maternal-fetal medicine, which focuses on treating pregnant women who are undergoing high-risk pregnancies. A pregnancy may become high-risk due to illnesses that the mother might be suffering from unrelated which is unrelated to her pregnancy including heart disease, kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, and thrombophilia. Other common causes of complications include multiple pregnancies, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and early labor. Dr. Gary Helmbrecht deals with all these and other such complications in his practice at the Prenatal Diagnosis Center. The Prenatal Diagnosis Center is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, and can be found on the web at www.prenataldiagnosiscenter.com. At the clinic, Dr. Gary Helmbrecht works alongside two partners to provide care to women managing high-risk pregnancies. The Prenatal Diagnosis Center offers first trimester screenings, 11 to 14 and 20 to 22 week fetal exams, gynecologic ultrasounds, birth defect screenings, amniocenteses, and prenatal ultrasounds. Dr. Gary Helmbrecht performs all of these types of screenings and treatments as well as being largely responsible for the management of the office operations, finances, and staffing. Dr. Gary Helmbrecht also belongs to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.


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  • Karl Rove
    December, 2010
    by Dr. Gary Helmbrecht

    I greatly admire early leaders in American history such as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin, while also holding respect for notable political thinkers of the modern era. I am particularly drawn to the political philosophies of Glenn Beck, Mark Levine, and Karl Rove. Of all the figures that have guided the conservative movement in the past 30 years, none stands out so prominently as Karl Rove. Born in 1950, Rove dropped out of college at the University of Utah in 1970 to serve as Executive Director of the College Republican National Committee. Throughout the 1970s, Rove slowly worked his way to prominence, functioning as a Republican political strategist in Texas. In 1980, Karl Rove attained the national stage, leading George H. W. Bush’s unsuccessful primary run against Ronald Reagan. Active throughout the 1980s in many local, state, and national elections, Rove engineered George W. Bush’s successful Texas gubernatorial campaign in 1994. Rove continued his work with Bush in 2000, as the chief strategist for his presidential bid, as well as his successful reelection campaign in 2004. Rove’s contributions to the conservative movement are not limited to these notable election victories. Since 2008, Rove has been active as a contributor to Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal and as a television analyst for Fox News. Although he never completed a college degree, Rove has proved an astute student of history, with a keen understanding the American political process. While I do not always agree with Rove’s opinions, I find him to be a compelling figure because of the depth of his knowledge of the intricacies of the U.S. political system. Rove has been consistently important to the success of the national Republican platform over some four decades, and I feel confident that he will be instrumental in leading political campaigns in the next decade as well.