Residency
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL

Medical School
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Undergraduate
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Research

     Current:

• Patient Familiarity with Caregivers and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction: FACE Trial: Assessing whether patient's familiarity with their healthcare providers as measured by their ability to correctly identify the healthcare providers they encounter during an inpatient admission has an effect on their satisfaction with care.
  
  
• Robotic Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (ROSATS): Development of a robotic surgical training curriculum for gynecology and urology residents*:
  
  
• Factors Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Stage Ovarian Cancer:  Review of 1200 cases of stage I and II ovarian cancer highlighting specific risk factors leading to lymph node metastasis.
  
  
• Use of Electronic Medical Record Based Tools to Improve Compliance with Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines: Effect of an Educational Intervention on Primary Care Physicians Practice Patterns: Determining whether specific prompts using the electronic medical record improves compliance with current cervical cancer screening guidelines.
  
  
• Avascular Spaces of the Pelvis: An educational video.

     Completed:

• Moeller LC, Alonso M, Liao X, Broach V, Dumitrescu A, Van Sande J, Montanelli L, Skjei S, Goodwin C, Grasberger H, Refetoff S, Weiss RE.  Pituitary-Thyroid Setpoint and TSH Receptor (TSHR) Expression in Consomic Rats. Endocrinology. 2007 Oct;148(10):4727-33.