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Gilda’s Club Chicago: Creating Community Through Cancer

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions, Oncofertility
Tags: Advocate, cancer, Chicago cancer community, Gilda's Club
Cancer is a disease that touches many people’s lives both directly and indirectly thereby creating a need for community based cancer support organizations. One such organization, Gilda’s Club, opened their signature Red Door in 1995 and since then, has been fostering a community of free…
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Introducing- Jennifer Jozefik

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Jennifer Jozefik —— Hello everyone! I currently work as a Lab Technician in the Woodruff Laboratory, and I would like to tell you a little bit about myself. In December 2007, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major in…
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Introducing – Greg Dolin

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Tags: Law
Greg Dolin ————- Hello all. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University School of Law. Previously, I was affiliated with Northwestern University Law School, which is how I got involved…
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Introducing Rachel Smith

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Rachel Smith —– I am a graduate student in Dr. Lonnie Shea’s group investigating biomaterials for regenerative medicine. I have just completed my first year of graduate school in the department of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University. I did my undergraduate studies at…
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Introducing Mandy Redig

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Amanda Redig ——— Hello – my name is Mandy Redig and I’m an MD/PhD student in my final year of medical school at Northwestern.  I moved to Chicago in the summer of 2003, and several years later I have now completed my PhD in cancer…
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Introducing Jacqueline de la Cruz

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Hi! I’m Jacqueline de la Cruz (you can also call me Jackie) and I just joined the Oncofertility Consortium in June as a Clinical Research Coordinator. I recently completed my MPH in Maternal and Child Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, after having…
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Introducing Victor O’Halloran

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Tags: Introduction
Victor O’Halloran ——— Hello, I’m Victor O’Halloran and I’m working as a summer intern for the Oncofertility Consortium.  My project this summer has been to research and summarize various religious perspectives and thinking on fertility, infertility and medical intervention.  I hope that this preliminary reasearch…
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Introducing Min Xu

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Tags: Introduction
Min Xu, PhD —– My name is Min Xu and I am a research assistant professor in the Oncofertility Consortium. I received my M.D. and Ph.D. in China, and more specifically, I was working in a clinical IVF lab for 5 years. During that time I helped many…
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Introducing Sarah Kiesewetter

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Tags: Introduction, Woodruff Lab
Sarah Kieswetter —– Hi! I’m Sarah Kiesewetter, one of the Technologists of the lab. I finished my Bachelor’s of Science (Animal Science) at the University of Illinois in 2006, and have been with the Woodruff lab ever since. I started out working with all of…
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Introducing Christine Babick Saqui

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions, Oncofertility
Tags: education, Learning Sciences, marketing, Oncofertility, OSEP, publishing, SESP, STEM
I’m the project director for the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Partnerships (referred to as “OSEP”) in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. My MA is in linguistics from Columbia University and my BA is…
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Introducing Miranda Bernhardt

By: Miranda Bernhardt -
Categories: Blog, Introductions
I started in the Woodruff Lab in August ’08 as a graduate student working on my PhD. I earned my BS in Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development from the University of Minnesota in ’05 where I worked in a lab that studied capacitation, a process…
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Dr. Clarisa Gracia highlighted in the media

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Introductions, Oncofertility
Tags: cancer, clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Introduction, Oncofertility
Dr. Clarisa Gracia, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was recently pictured on the cover of Philadelphia Magazine and listed as one of the top doctors under 40 in Philadelphia, thanks to her work in Oncofertility. See…
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Introducing Huge Galdones

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions
Tags: fertility, Introduction, PCOS, Woodruff Lab
Huge Galdones, PhD ——– I’m a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and, if I’m not mistaken, the newest member of the Woodruff Laboratory. Originally from Montreal (Quebec, Canada), I received my B.Sc. (Physiology) and Ph.D. (Pharmacology and Therapeutics) from McGill University. With a background in teratology (birth…
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Introducing Tara Kerpelman

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Hi everyone! My name is Tara Kerpelman and I’m the Science and Medicine Writer for the Oncofertility Consortium. I work here part-time. The rest of the time I’m a graduate student at Medill – the journalism school at Northwestern – where I am specializing in science…
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Introducing Shauna Gardino

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, ethics, legal, quality of life, religion, social science
My name is Shauna Gardino and I am clinical research coordinator at the Oncofertility Consortium. I manage the portfolio of social science studies related to fertility preservation for cancer patients. There are five current social science initiatives that provide a vital perspective of the social…
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