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Cancer and Adoption VGR

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - June 16, 2016

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Patient Stories, Virtual Grand Rounds

Megan Silianoff, survivor and author of the book "99 Problems but a Baby Ain't One", delivered an inspiring VGR about her experiences with cancer and adoption. During her presentation, she shared her story and how she navigated the adoption process after her cancer diagnosis. This…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - June 9, 2016

Categories: Blog, Virtual Grand Rounds

The Oncofertility Consortium hosts monthly Virtual Grand Rounds as a way to connect researchers, clinicians, and others from across the globe to discuss emerging research and clinical services in the field of oncofertility and beyond. With this technology, a single presenter broadcasts video and data…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - June 6, 2016

Categories: Blog, Global Partner, Publication

Dr. Yoko Miyoshi, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, and her colleagues recently published a paper in the Journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology. Dr. Miyoshi, and many of the other authors on the paper, are all active…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - June 2, 2016

Categories: Blog, Global Partner, Oncofertility

Establishing relationships with global partners is a key to the Oncofertility Consortium’s continued success. As such, the Consortium developed the Oncofertility Global Partners Network and works with reproductive specialists from all over the world in an effort to better serve children, adolescents and young adults…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - May 26, 2016

Categories: Blog, National Physicians Cooperative, Oncofertility, science

The Oncofertility Consortium (OC) is committed to exploring and expanding reproductive options for those who face fertility threatening conditions and/or medical treatments. To this end, the OC has created several resources, available through the OC-Scientific Help Agreement for Research Endeavors or OC-SHAREs program, to help…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - May 18, 2016

Categories: Blog, Communication, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility

At today's Virtual Grand Rounds, Oncofertility Patient Navigator, Kristin Smith, delivered an excellent talk about fertility preservation program development. Kristin discussed the role of the patient navaigator and explained how she guides patients through the fertility preservation process. She discussed how she handles referrals, how…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - May 12, 2016

Categories: Blog, Global Partner

We are happy to announce more exciting news from the Oncofertility Global Partners Network! Dr. Jhenifer Rodrigues, founder of the Brazilian Oncofertility Consortium, has been working to expand the Latin America Oncofertility Network and will be traveling to Chile to work with Drs. Anibal Scarella…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - May 11, 2016

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation

Tags: 2015 Conference, 2015 OCC, Brandon Hayes-Lattin, insurance, insurance coverage

The final talk at the 2015 Oncofertility Conference was delivered by Dr. Brandon Hayes-Lattin, MD, who is the Medical Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Hayes-Lattin gave an informative talk…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - May 10, 2016

Categories: Blog, Education, ethics, Fertility Preservation

Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein

Today we continue our series highlighting reproductive medicine blog posts written by Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD, from the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College for BIOETHICS TODAY. Dr. Campo-Engelstein's main research areas include reproductive ethics (particularly contraception, oncofertility, birth, and embry and parthenote research), gender and medicine, cancer ethics,…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - May 4, 2016

Categories: Blog, Cancer, children, Conferences, Meetings

Tags: 2015 OCC, 2015 Oncofertility Conference, Liilian Meacham, male sexual health

Dr. Lillian Meacham, MD, Medical Director, Cancer Survivor Program, The Kathelen V. Amos Children's Chair for Cancer Survivorship, and Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, followed up the female sexuality talk with a talk on male sexuality in childhood cancer survivors. Dr. Meacham shared…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - May 3, 2016

Categories: Blog, Education, ethics, Fertility Preservation

Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - May 2, 2016

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Global Partner, Meetings, Oncofertility

The Oncofertility Consortium Global Partners Network recently expanded to include BIOMER in Lima, Perú. Drs. Sergio Romero, PhD and Flor Sánchez, PhD, both of BIOMER, recently organized a conference in Lima to showcase oncofertility work in the region. The conference was a great success and…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 28, 2016

Categories: Blog, children, In the news, Publication, Research

An exciting new publication, funded by the Center for Reproductive Health After Disease and the Oncofertility Consortium (P50HD076188), was recently published in the Journal of Early Adolescence. This work is one of the projects supported by the Education Core and has made tremendous progress over…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 27, 2016

Categories: Blog, Cancer, children, Conferences

Tags: 2015 OCC, 2015 Oncofertility Consortium Conference, AYA, MD, sexual health, Terri Woodard, women

Dr. Terri Woodard, MD, Director of Oncofertility Service at MD Anderson, gave a talk at the 2015 Oncofertility Consortium Conference on the sexual health of young women who survived childhood cancer. The goal of her talk was to define sexual health and discuss how sexual…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - April 26, 2016

Categories: Blog, Education, ethics, Fertility Preservation

Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 20, 2016

Categories: Blog, Global Partner, Introductions, Oncofertility

The Oncofertility Consortium and its Global Partners Network is happy to annouce its expansion into Central and South America. Dr. Jhenifer Rodrigues, the founder of the Brazilian Oncofertility Consoritum, has organized this network. Below is a blog from Jhenifer about her work! The…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 20, 2016

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Meetings

Tags: 2015 Conference, 2015 OCC, disorders of sexual development, DSD, Lurie Children's, Oncofertility Consortium Conference

Dr. Courtney Finlayson, MD, Endocrinologist at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, gave a talk on fertility preservation in disorders of sex development (DSD). Dr. Finlayson and her multidisciplinary team treat DSD patients at Lurie Children's. During her talk, she discussed the general…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - April 20, 2016

Categories: Blog, Research

On April 9th, Woodruff Lab member Monica Laronda, PhD participated in TEDxNorthwesternU 2016: Beyond Boundaries. During this day-long event, speakers discussed the creativity and ingenuity that drives innovation at Northwestern and around the world. Monica’s TEDx talk described current innovations at NU that advances the…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 19, 2016

Categories: Blog, Global Partner, Oncofertility, Virtual Grand Rounds

Tags: Educational Programs, teresa k woodruff, VGRs, virtual grand rounds

Last week, Dr. Teresa Woodruff gave an excellent Virtual Grand Rounds presentation entitled "Educating a Globally Prepared Oncofertility Workforce". She discussed many of the current oncofertility initiatives and discussed methods for setting up similar programs abroad. The recorded presentation is now available to view online.…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - April 19, 2016

Categories: Blog, Education, ethics, Fertility Preservation

Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 13, 2016

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Patient Stories

Tags: 2015 Conference, 2015 OCC, AYA, Gwendolyn Quinn, LGBTQ

Dr. Gwendolgyn Quinn, PhD, Moffit Cancer Center, gave an oustanding talk at the 2015 Oncofertility Consortium Conference. Her talk: Do Ask and Do Tell: The Importance of LGBTQ Status in Reproductive Health visited the contemporary topic of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) research in…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - April 12, 2016

Categories: Blog, Education, ethics, Fertility Preservation

Tags: Lisa Campo-Engelstein

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - April 11, 2016

Categories: Blog, Global Partner, Meetings, Virtual Grand Rounds

Tags: Oncofertility in low/no resource settings, teresa k woodruff, VGRs, virtual grand rounds

The Oncofertility Consortium is pleased to announce the revival of the Virtual Grand Rounds! These monthly virtual meetings will embody the theme of the year: oncofertility in low-no resource settings. This series of talks will focus on the multifaceted approach to setting up an oncofertility…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - April 8, 2016

Categories: Blog, Education, Fertility Preservation, National Physicians Cooperative, Oncofertility

We are thrilled to announce that our colleagues at Cincinnati Children’s are hosting a live virtual question and answer session on Wednesday, April 20th (6:00-7:00pm CST) to answer questions about fertility preservation in children and adolescents with cancer and blood diseases. During this event, the co-hosts, Holly Hoefgen,…

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Cancer and Adoption VGR

Virtual Grand Rounds

New Publication from Japanese Global Partners

Oncofertility Global Partners Network

Oncofertility Consortium-Scientific Help Agreement for Research Endeavors (OC-SHAREs) Program

Patient Navigator, Kristin Smith, Delivers Excellent VGR Talk

Chile, the Newest Member of the Latin America Oncofertility Network, Receives Updates on Fertility Preservation Techniques

Presentations from the 2015 Conference- Brandon Hayes-Lattin, MD

Bioethics Today Series: Ethical concerns raised by “3 person embryos”

Presentations from the 2015 Conference- Lillian Meacham, MD

Bioethics Today Series: The Need for Patient Navigators for Fertility Preservation

Oncofertility Workshop in Lima, Perú

Reproductive Health Focus Group Paper Now Online

Presentations from the 2015 Conference-Terri Woodard, MD

Bioethics Today Series: The Ethics of Uterus Transplantation

The Oncofertility Consortium Launches the Latin America Oncofertility Consortium!

Presentations from the 2015 Conference- Courtney Finlayson, MD

TEDxNorthwesternU 2016: Beyond Boundaries

April 2016 Virtual Grand Round Now Online!

Bioethics Today Series: The Ethics of Sperm Freezing for Teenage Boys

Presentations from the 2015 Conference- Gwendolyn Quinn, PhD

Bioethics Today Series: Insurance Coverage for Oncofertility: Concerns about Socioeconomic Disparities

April 13 Virtual Grand Rounds!

April 20th: Live Chat on Fertility Preservation

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