Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center offers a four-year ACGME-accredited fellowship that prepares trainees for certification and an academic career in the subspecialty of gynecologic oncology.
Designed within a multidisciplinary setting, the fellowship program provides fellows with the most effective education and training to ensure the development of the skills necessary to practice gynecologic oncology. In addition to time spent on the Gynecology Service, rotations are available on the Urology, Colorectal, Gastric and Mixed Tumor, Radiation Therapy, and Chemotherapy Services.
Fellows are responsible for preoperative and postoperative patient care, and they will perform surgical operations under the attending surgeon’s direction. Fellows will help supervise and instruct the residents on the Gynecology Service, as well as participate in outpatient clinics, rounds, lectures, and weekly treatment planning conferences.
The first year of the fellowship will be dedicated solely to basic science or clinical science research, pending review of a research proposal submitted by the fellow. During the second year, the fellow will either continue basic science or clinical science research and participate on the Medical Oncology Service, as well as participate in some clinical care. The third year is comprised of clinical rotations on the Gynecology Service for nine months with two months of elective time spent in Radiation Oncology. In the final year, the fellow will rotate for seven months on the Gynecology Service; the other five months will be spent rotating on the Colorectal Service (two months), Genitourinary Service (two months), and elective time (final month).
Faculty
Alumni
2018
Brooke Schlape, Aurura Health Care
Jill Tseng, University of California, Irvine
2019
Paulina Cybulska, Mount Sinai Hospital
Katherine LaVigne, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
2020
Emeline Aviki, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marina Stasenko, Langone Health
Current Fellows
Sushmita Gordhandas (Residency, New York Presby Hospital, Cornell)
Beryl Manning-Geist (Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital)
William Zammarrelli (Residency, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center)
Jacqueline Feinberg (Residency, Yale School of Medicine; Yale-New Haven Hospital)
Olga Filippova (Residency, Albany Medical Center)
Kathryn Miller (Residency, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Kimberly Dessources (Residency, University of California Los Angeles)
Sarah Kim (Residency, New York University Medical Center)
Lea Moukarzel (Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital)
Renee Cowan (Residency, MedStar Washington Hospital Center)
Evan Smith (Residency, Ochsner Health System)
Charles Ashley (Residency, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics)
Benefits and Environment
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan — a vibrant, safe community with many nearby activities for adults and children. Salary and benefits are provided to all fellows according to level of training (number of postgraduate years). In addition, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center provides housing accommodations at a subsidized rate to all fellows in the form of unfurnished apartments within a short walking distance of the hospital. There are many schools and affordable childcare options nearby.
Deadline
April 1
Length of Program
4 years
Eligibility
Applicants must have completed their core residency training in obstetrics and gynecology prior to beginning the gynecologic oncology fellowship. The residency program should be an approved program in the United States or Canada, and applicants must be eligible for American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology certification. Foreign medical graduates with equivalent qualifications are also eligible to apply and must have completed all three of the USMLE examinations.
Number of Positions
3
How to Apply
The application process is handled directly through ERAS (the Electronic Residency Application Service). Selected applicants will be offered an interview at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
If any of these requirements are not met or are incomplete upon submission, the application will not be processed.