Ashley Gubbels MD

Dr. Ashley Gubbels is a fellowship-trained minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. She specializes in chronic pelvic pain conditions such as endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, pelvic muscle pain, and neuropathic pain conditions like pudendal neuralgia. She is well-versed in the excisional treatment of endometriosis, peripheral pelvic nerve blocks, and pudendal nerve decompression. She is board-certified in OB/GYN and a member of AAGL (formerly American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists) and the International Pelvic Pain Society.

She received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2004 and her medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2008. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2012. Dr. Gubbels served in the United States Air Force as a general OB/GYN from 2012-2016 and served as the medical director of the Women’s Health Clinic at Nellis Air Force Base from 2015-2016. She then pursued an AAGL Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecology with a focus on chronic pelvic pain at Creighton School of Medicine/St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center under the tutelage of Dr. Michael Hibner. Upon completion of the fellowship, Dr. Gubbels joined the faculty at the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2018 as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has been with the Cleveland Clinic since 2022 and has been the Director of the Chronic Pelvic Pain Program since 2025