Dr. Jonathan Zaidan

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Endometriosis Focus

A Marketed Endometriosis Focus Inside a Broad General Practice

Dr. Zaidan founded Women's Excellence in 1998, about a year after finishing residency, and serves as its president. It is a full-service obstetrics and gynecology group across seven Michigan locations, covering deliveries, midwifery, menopause, bladder control, weight control, oncology and endometriosis. Endometriosis is one service line among many there.

The Endometriosis Treatment Center of America is the dedicated endometriosis practice. His LinkedIn profile dates his founding of it to 2019, and the practice announced its public launch in a press release in 2021. It currently publishes two offices, Lake Orion and Bloomfield Hills. The clinical team named on the site is Dr. Zaidan together with a group of physician assistants. No second surgeon is listed as of 2026.

He also owns a cosmetic gynecology and aesthetic surgery clinic, co-founded and serves as medical director of an AI-driven telehealth triage company, co-founded a telehealth platform for hormone optimization, and has served as director of robotic surgery at a Pontiac hospital since 2013. Zocdoc records the reasons patients most frequently book with him as annual gynecologic exams, annual physicals, general consultations, infertility consultations and weight loss consultations. Endometriosis and excision surgery do not appear in that list. Taken together, endometriosis is a marketed and organizationally separate focus, but it is certainly not the exclusive focus of his practice.

Multidisciplinary Approach

No Surgical Team Is Published

Endometriosis can grow on the bowel, bladder, ureters and diaphragm. Surgeons who operate on advanced disease usually work with colorectal, urologic or thoracic surgeons, either in the room or on call, because removing disease from those organs is outside general gynecologic scope. Patients with suspected disease outside the pelvis are generally advised to confirm that arrangement exists before surgery.

No public information was found on any such arrangement here. The endometriosis center names no colorectal, urologic or thoracic surgeon anywhere on its site, and lists no second surgeon of any kind. The published clinical team is Dr. Zaidan and a group of physician assistants. This is a documented gap rather than a finding that no arrangement exists, and it sits against a practice that markets itself for the most difficult endometriosis cases. Separately, the Women's Excellence group lists pelvic physical therapy among its service lines, which is the one adjacent discipline that is publicly documented.

Diagnosis Methods

Laparoscopy First, With Biopsy Described as Not Always Necessary

The practice publishes a four-step approach to endometriosis treatment. The first step is described as making an accurate diagnosis using laparoscopic visualization and biopsy, with laparoscopy called the gold standard for seeing the pelvic organs. The published text then states that a biopsy is not always needed if good visualization is achieved, and that excision and tissue removal for biopsy can begin at the time of diagnosis.

That one line is worth understanding before a consultation, because it has come up repeatedly in patient discussion. A biopsy is what confirms under a microscope that tissue removed was endometriosis. Without it, a diagnosis rests on what the surgeon sees through the camera, and endometriosis can look different from case to case. Patients who want laboratory confirmation of what was found and removed would need to raise that specifically.

The practice's endometriosis page presents medical history and a detailed symptom discussion as the starting point of diagnosis, with a list of questions a patient should expect. No published statement was found on whether a normal ultrasound or MRI is treated as ruling endometriosis out, or on what the pathway looks like for a patient who has never had surgery.

Educational Presence

Practice Marketing Rather Than Independent Contribution to the Field

No endometriosis publications were found under his name on PubMed, and his Doximity profile carries no publications section at all. No presenter or conference records were found with AAGL, the Society of Reproductive Surgeons, the World Endometriosis Society or ESHRE. No co-authorship with any recognized excision surgeon was found. He is not listed in the AAGL member directory, on iCareBetter, or on the Endometriosis Foundation of America provider finder.

He co-hosts a monthly women's health segment on a Detroit AM radio station that his practice describes itself as a partner of. Four episodes are archived on the practice site, dated between 2019 and 2021, three of which cover endometriosis, infertility and pelvic pain. This is the only broadcast presence found. No appearances were found on any of the established endometriosis podcasts.

The distinction between content he creates and content his practices produce about him matters here, and almost everything falls in the second category. There is no personal YouTube channel, no personal Instagram account and no X account. The endometriosis center runs an Instagram account and a TikTok account, and the cosmetic clinic runs its own Instagram account. Three paid press releases issued by the practice in 2019 and 2021 are the origin of the ranking claims that appear across his sites, escalating from the leading robotic excision surgeon in the Midwest, to the national leader in total robotic procedures, to the current site claim of more of these procedures than any other team in America. No registry, society or independent source substantiating any of those claims was found, and the Intuitive Surgical procedure band noted above covers procedures of all types rather than endometriosis excision.

Post-Surgical Care

Maintenance Therapy Is Published; Follow-Up Logistics Are Not

The practice publishes maintenance therapy after excision surgery as part of its standard approach, described as altering the estrogen and progesterone balance so that disease is less likely to return. Hormonal and drug therapy is also described elsewhere on the site as working alongside excision to suppress disease and reduce inflammation. The specific medications used are not published, and patient accounts name a range of them including Zoladex, Lupron, Orilissa, progesterone and birth control.

No public information was found on how soon the first follow-up appointment occurs, how long patients continue to be seen, or whether he or another member of the team conducts follow-up visits. Patient accounts describe both patterns. Some report ongoing monitoring every three months over a period of years with medication managed monthly. Others describe post-operative findings delivered to a family member while they were still under anesthesia, follow-up handled by a physician assistant or nurse practitioner, and waits of several weeks for detailed answers. Patients who want to know who they will see after surgery, and when, should establish that in advance.

Philosophy and Fit

Excision Framed as the Goal, With Hormonal Suppression Around It

His stated position is that excision is the gold standard, that removing the whole lesion rather than the surface produces better long-term results, and that excision is superior to destructive methods such as laser, particularly in deep infiltrating endometriosis. The practice also states that most gynecologists are not adequately trained in this kind of surgery.

Around that surgical position sits a strong emphasis on hormonal suppression. Endometriosis is framed as an inflammatory disease that will progress without treatment, with estrogen described as the driver, and blunting or stopping estrogen described as necessary to control inflammation. Many specialists disagree with this sentiment. In the published four-step sequence, that suppression step sits between the diagnostic laparoscopy and the excision surgery, and maintenance therapy follows the excision. A patient who does not want hormonal suppression, or who has not tolerated it before, should understand that it is a stated part of the standard approach here rather than an exception.

Fertility is given prominence. The practice states that half of endometriosis patients experience infertility and describes performing excision with the aim of leaving the pelvic structure in the best condition to achieve pregnancy. Several patient accounts credit him with conception after long periods of infertility.

The practice's adenomyosis page is worth reading separately if adenomyosis is part of your picture. The treatment options it lists are hormonal therapy, anti-inflammatory drugs, uterine artery embolization, endometrial ablation and hysterectomy. It describes hysterectomy as the only definitive treatment that eliminates all symptoms, and does not list excision or resection of adenomyosis as an option. It also states that adenomyosis usually resolves after menopause while endometriosis can persist.