Current Gynecologic Oncology Fellows

3rd-year – Jacqueline Morgan, MD

Jacqui grew up in Australia and attended a combined 6-year undergraduate-medical school program at Monash University, graduating in 1998.  She then did an internship, one year of general surgery residency and one year of OB GYN training in Australia before immigrating to the United States where she finished her OB GYN residency at the University of Missouri in 2007.  Jacqui’s basic research project was on expression of synuclein-γ (SNCG) in uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), which was presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Annual Meeting and published in Gynecologic Oncology.

She has published an update on gestational trophoblastic neoplasia and is currently working on several other clinic projects, including clinical correlation of SNCG expression in UPSC, venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in gynecologic oncology patients, and sequential liposomal doxorubicin and topotecan chemotherapy for recurrent ovarian cancer.

2nd-year – Eloise Chapman-Davis, MD

Ella grew up in New York, obtained her bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University in 1998, and graduated AOA from Stony Brook University School of Medicine in 2004.  She did her residency at Harvard University Brigham & Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital from 2004 – 2008.  Ella's basic science project was looking at the involvement of gene regulation and its relation to chemoresistance in endometrial cancer. 

She has already started on several clinical projects, including surgical margin adequacy in vulvar cancer, reoperations for ovarian cancer, determining the role of weight loss for prevention of endometrial cancer, and low-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

1st-year – Nikki Neubauer, MD

Nikki graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 1997 and then received her MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 2005. She did her OB GYN residency at Duke University Medical Center from 2005 – 2008.  Nikki’s basic science projects involve an analysis of gene expression in normal endometrium vs. endometrioid endometrial cancer and also the role of progestins and AKT inhibition in endometrioid endometrial cancer.

She has already published an article on the role of lymphadenectomy in the management of preoperative grade 1 endometrial carcinoma and has updated the website for the gynecologic oncofertility program.

Recent Gynecologic Oncology Fellow Graduates

2008 – Emily Berry, MD

Emily was the first graduate of the fellowship program at Northwestern.  She is currently Assistant Professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.  Emily graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina in 1996 and then worked in an Episcopal Urban Intern Program in Los Angeles, California for one year prior to attending medical school at the Oregon Health Sciences University.  She completed her residency in OB GYN at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. 

Emily accomplished a lot during her fellowship at Northwestern.  She received the 2007 Compassionate Care Award for housestaff from the Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital as a result of her patient care skills and collegial attitude.  Emily had oral presentations at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Annual Meeting, the Western Association of Gynecologic Oncologists, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Winter Meeting, and the World Congress on Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases.  Emily’s basic science project was on induction of apoptosis in endometrial cancer cells.  She will have at least 7 publications as a result of her fellowship activities.  Emily was also selected as Vice-Chair of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists Fellow-in-Training Network, which included the responsibility for organizing the Fellows Seminar at the Annual Meeting for two years and publishing the FIT Newsletter.

2009 – Anna V. Hoesktra, MD, MPH

Anna received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1996 and then obtained an MPH from the University of Illinois in 1998 prior to graduating from Rush Medical College in 2002.  She completed her OB GYN residency at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in 2006.  After completing her fellowship in 2009, she went back to her hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan where she is an Assistant Professor on the clinical faculty of Michigan State University at the Western Michigan Cancer Center.

During her fellowship, Anna had 11 first-author presentations at national and international meetings, and she published 14 articles, on 10 of which she was first author. Her basic science research involved targeting the P13K/AKT/FOXO pathway in endometrial cancer. Her clinical research was in endometrial cancer, trophoblastic disease, and robotic surgery.