UCSF/KPSF Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and Kaiser Permanente San Francisco (KPSF) offer a three year joint Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program. Our fellowship Program is accredited program by accredited by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Our program is approved for 3 fellowship positions. One fellow is recruited each year. Fellows are trained at Bakar Cancer Hospital and Ron Conway Gateway Medical Building at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus, and Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco (KPSF).
Our fellows will spend the first 6 month of their fellowship in a clinical rotation at UCSF follow by a 12 months protected time for research in gynecologic malignancies at a location based on the candidate’s research interests. After the research year, fellows will continue with their clinical at either KPSF or UCSF. Senior fellows will have an opportunity to do a one month rotation at the UCSF Intensive Care Unit as well as an elective month of their choice in clinical oncology, surgical oncology, or dysplasia.
The residency program at UCSF is also an ACGME-accredited program and has nine residents per year, for a total of 36 residents. Residents rotate through Gynecologic Oncology for a period of 5-7 weeks each year. Residents also participate in the daily activities of the inpatient service and surgery with the fellows.
Goals and Objectives
Our fellowship program's educational objectives are structured according to the core competencies of the ACGME Outcomes Project.
Interpersonal skill and professional communication objectives are critical to acquiring knowledge and conveying results and recommendations to patients and providers alike.
Medical knowledge objectives emphasize learning for diagnosis and management of each of the major gynecologic tumor sites, but also modalities of treatment including radiation, chemotherapy, and palliative care.
Patient care objectives including complete assessment using history, physical examination findings, and laboratory test results, and selection and performance of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, including radical pelvic and minimally invasive surgery.
Practice-based learning includes evidence based medicine, critically considered research, self-reflection as part of the evaluation process, while system-based learning includes quality improvement and multidisciplinary team collaboration. Throughout all educational activities, professionalism is essential for good performance and lifelong learning.
Fellowship Training Schedule / Block Gird
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August |
September |
October |
November |
December |
January |
February |
March |
April |
May |
June |
July |
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Year 1 |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
RES |
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Year 2 |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
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Year 3 |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
KPSF |
ICU |
ELECT |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
UCSF |
Curriculum
Surgical and Clinical Management
Radiation Therapy
Chemotherapy
Palliative Care
Genetic Counseling
Pathology
Critical Care
Research
IRB Training
Grant Writing
Statistical Analysis
Quantitative Techniques /Epidemiology/Study Design
Manuscript Preparation
Thesis presentation and defense
Elective Options
Radiation Oncology
Phase I
Surgical Oncology
Urologic Oncology
Colorectal Surgery
Dysplasia
Fellowship Training Activities
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UCSF |
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Daily Rounds |
Daily |
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Teaching Rounds |
Twice/ three times a week |
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Weekend Rounds and Calls |
Share with Chief Residents |
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Grand Rounds |
Weekly Tuesdays |
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Tumor Board |
Weekly Tuesdays |
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Fellow’s didactic Lecture |
Weekly Tuesdays |
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Journal Club |
Quarterly* |
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M&M/Case Conference |
Quarterly* |
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Fellowship College |
Quarterly* |
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Teaching Medical Students/ Residents/ External Rotation Fellows/ Visiting Scholars |
As Assigned |
Research Projects
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Rosa Guerra, MD |
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Project 1: |
Ethnicity/race affect knowledge of clinical trials |
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Investigator(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD, Stefanie Ueda, MD, Edwin Alvarez, MD, Jocelyn Chapman, MD, Megan Swanson, MD, MPH, Hala Borno, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD, Celia Kaplan, PhD, Ann Lazar, PhD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 2: |
Minimal invasive surgery vs open surgery and the affects on outcomes in early stage cervical cancer |
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Investigator(s): |
Aida Shirazi PhD, Lue-Yen Tucker, Ramey Littell, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Ramey Littell, MD |
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Location: |
Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco |
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Project 3: |
Increasing germline genetic testing uptake in an outpatient setting for all ovarian cancer patients |
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Investigator(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD, Stefanie Ueda, MD, Edwin Alvarez, MD, Jocelyn Chapman, MD, Megan Swanson, MD, MPH |
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Mentor(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD, FACS, FACOG, Stefanie Ueda, MD, |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 4: |
Entereg and the affect on length of hospital stay in gynecologic oncology patients. |
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Investigator(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD, Stefanie Ueda, MD, Edwin Alvarez, MD, Jocelyn Chapman, MD, Megan Swanson, MD, MPH |
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Mentor(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD, Stefanie Ueda, MD, |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Nicole Marjon, MD, PhD |
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Project 1: |
Targeting PARP inhibitors to ovarian cancer, decreasing off target effects |
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Investigator(s): |
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, Morgan Diolaiti, PhD |
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Mentor(s): |
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, Jocelyn Chapman, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 2: |
Evaluating novel interactions between ovarian cancer and the immune system to develop innovative targets for ovarian cancer |
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Investigator(s): |
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, Morgan Diolaiti, PhD |
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Mentor(s): |
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 3: |
Using clinical targeted sequencing of ovarian tumors to predict response to PARP inhibitors |
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Investigator(s): |
Jocelyn Chapman, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Jocelyn Chapman, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 4: |
Systematic evaluation of PARP inhibitor resistance and reversion mutations |
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Investigator(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 5: |
Evaluating the effects of prior cancer treatment on the risks and outcomes of patients with occult cancer found at the time of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy |
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Investigator(s): |
Trina Mansour, MD, Lee-May Chen, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Lee-may Chen, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Allison Kay, MD |
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Project 1: |
Improving our postoperative opioid prescribing process by creating a decision aid to personalize opioid prescription size to meet a patient's actual need. |
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Investigator(s): |
Jocelyn Chapman, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Jocelyn Chapman, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 2: |
Comparing surgeon placed TAP blocks to thoracic epidurals for postoperative pain management after open surgeries. |
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Investigator(s): |
Rosa Guerra, Nicole Marjon, MD, PhD, Edwin Alvarez, MD, Jocelyn Chapman, Megan Swanson, MD, MPH, Lee-lynn Chen, MD, Lee-may Chen, MD, Stefanie Ueda, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Lee-lynn Chen, MD, Lee-may Chen, MD, Stefanie Ueda, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center |
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Project 3: |
Reviewing our historical prescribing patterns for postoperative opioid medication and identifying perioperative and patient characteristics that affected prescription size and increased a patient's use of opioid medication. |
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Investigator(s): |
Jocelyn Chapman, MD, Ramey Littell, MD |
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Mentor(s): |
Jocelyn Chapman, MD |
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Location: |
UCSF Cancer Center/ Kaiser SF |
Current Fellows (UCSF remains merged with Stanford in fellowship training through 2016-2017. Beginning in July 2017, our program is merged with Kaiser Permanente San Francisco
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Allyson Jang, MD |
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Alison McGough-Maduena, MD, MPH |
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Yeon, Woo Lee, MD |
Graduates (through 2016-2019 UCSF remains merged with Stanford in fellowship training through 2016-2017. Beginning in July 2017, our program is merged with Kaiser Permanente San Francisco)
| Allison Kay, MD 2020-2023 | San Francisco Kaiser Permanente |
| Nicole Marjon, MD, PhD 2019-2022 | University of Colorado Cancer Center |
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Rosa Guerra, MD 2018-2021 |
University of Houston, Texas, Faculty Position |
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Jana Freeman, M.D. 2017-2020 |
UCSF, Fresno Faculty Position |
| Megan Swanson, M.D., M.P.H. 2015-2019 | UCSF, Faculty Position |
Graduates (through 2006-2018, UCSF was merged with Stanford in fellowship training)
| Gillian Hiseh 2015-2018 | Stanford Health Care, Faculty Position |
| Leah McNally, M.D. 2014-2017 | Duke University, Faculty Position |
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Gina Westhoff, M.D. 2012-2015 |
Private Practice, Oregon |
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Jocelyn Chapman, M.D. 2012-2015 |
UCSF, Faculty Position |
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Elise Simons, M.D. 2011-2014 |
University of Washington, Faculty Position |
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Katherine Fuh, M.D 2009-2012 |
UCSF, Faculty Position |
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Renata Urban, M.D. 2008-2011 |
University of Washington, Faculty Position |
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Katherine Yang, M.D. 2007-2010 |
Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, Private Practice |
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Valerie Sugiyama, M.D. 2006-2009 |
Stanford Medicine, Faculty Position |