Alumni of Gynecologic Oncology

Peter Morris

• Residency - University of Oklahoma
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 1992 (2 year)
• Thesis Title - “Steroid Hormone Receptor Content and Lymph Node Status in Endometrial Cancer”
• Subspecialty Certification - 1995
• Post Fellowship Position - University of Nebraska

Turgut Alagoz

• Residency - United States Air Force Medical Center, Keesler Air Force Base
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 1993 (2 year)
• Thesis Title - “Evaluation of Hyperbaric Oxygen as a Chemosensitizer in the Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer”
• Subspecialty Certification - 1997
• Post Fellowship Position - Travis Air Force Base - Director, Gynecologic Oncology Service

Joseph Connor

• Residency - Northwestern University
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 1994 (3 year)
• Thesis Title - “Direct Growth Inhibiting Effects of GnRH Analogs in Five Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines”
• Subspecialty Certification - 1999
• Post Fellowship Position - University of Illinois at Chicago

Robert Squatrito

• Residency - Pennsylvania State University
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 1995 (3 year)
• Thesis Title - “Comparison of a Novel Redox Cell Growth Assay to the ATP Bioluminescence Assay”
• Subspecialty Certification - 1999
• Post Fellowship Position - University of Vermont

Jeffrey Skilling

• Residency - University of California, Davis Medical Center
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 1996 (3 year)
• Thesis Title -”An Abundance of p53 Null Mutations in Ovarian Cancer”
• Subspecialty Certification - 2000
• Post Fellowship Position - University of California, Davis Medical Center

Anil Sood

• Residency - University of Florida, Gainesville
• Thesis Title - “Genetic Regulation of Oncogene and Tumor Suppressor Gene Expression in Ovarian Cancer”
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 1998 (3 year)
• Passed Part I Subspecialty Certification - June, 1998.
• Post Fellowship Position - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Thomas A. Lallas

• Residency – Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City
• Thesis Title – “BRCA1 Mutation in Familial Ovarian Cancer”
• Year of Completion of Fellowship – 1999 (3 year)
• Passed Part I Supspecial Certification, June, 2000
• Post Fellowship Position – Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City
• Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City, New York

Thomas Buekers

• Residency - William Beaumont Hospital, Detroit
• Thesis Title - "Identification of a Common Region of X-Chromosome Loss of Heterozygosity associated with BRCA1 Mutation."
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 2000 (4 year)
• Passed Part I Subspecial Certification, June, 20000
• Post Fellowship Position – Newsport News, Virginia
• Eastern Virginia Medical School, Newport News, Virginia

Mark Shahin

• Residency – McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University
• Thesis Title – BRCA1 Gene Regulation - Splicing Abnormalities in BRCA1 Detected Using cDNA Based Technique."
• Year of Completion of Fellowship – 2001 (4 year)
• Post Fellowship Position – Abington Memorial Hospital, Rosenfeld Cancer Center, Abington, Pennsylvania Temple University, Abington, Pennsylvania

Vikas Mahavni

• Residency - University of California Davis Medical Center
• Thesis Title – “Hormonally Responsive and Smoking Related Cancers Show Site-Specific Differences in the Rate of Non Randoim X Chromosome Inactivation”.
• Year of Completion of Fellowship - 2002 (4 year)
• Post Fellowship Position – Kaiser Premanente Medical Group, Sacramento, California.

John Geisler

• Residency – St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis
• Thesis Title – “The Role of Promoter Silencing by DNA Methylation in Ovarian Cancer”.
• Year of Completion of Fellowship – 2003 (4 year)

David Bender

• Residency – Magee Women’s Hospital/University Health Center of Pittsburgh
• Thesis Title – “X-Inactivation in Ovarian Cancer Using Novel Sites and Markers”.
• Year of Completion of Fellowship – 2004 (4 year)

Michael Goodheart

• Residency – Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans
• Thesis Title – “Understanding BRCA2 Dysfunction in Ovarian Cancer”.
• Year of Completion of Fellowship – 2005 (4 year)