Online voting for SGO's first open elections will take place from Jan. 7, 2013, until Feb. 7, 2013. Voting members include Senior and Full Members as well as International and Associate Members who joined the Society prior to 2010. Candidate and Fellow-in-Training Members are eligible to vote for their respective representatives. 

The open positions for the 2013 SGO Board of Directors Election Ballot include: 

Photos and biographies of all candidates are available here. 

Voting Members will receive an email with a link to cast their votes on Jan 7, 2013, and have 30 days to make their selection. This email will be sent from noreply@directvote.net. In order to ensure that SGO members receive their personal link to the ballot, this sender should be added to a "safe senders" list. Reminders to vote will be sent periodically. Any questions about the SGO board elections can be directed to SGO Governance Coordinator Debbie Leopold at debbie.leopold@SGO.org.

IRegistration is open for SGO's 44th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer from March 9 to 12, 2013, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. SGO members are encouraged to join their colleagues in women's cancer care for the subspecialty's premier educational event of the year. A full schedule of events is available on the SGO.org website, as well as the latest information on hotels, transportation, things to see and do in Los Angeles, exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, and the Foundation for Gynecologic Oncology's annual gala. 

 Special hotel room rates at the four official SGO hotels will be available through Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, and late-breaking abstracts are being accepted through Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The new SGO.org website will provide the most up-to-date schedule information and important online registration links; for more information contact meetings@sgo.org. 

On Dec. 6, 2012, the White House announced President Barack Obama's intent to appoint former SGO president and Gynecologic Oncology Editor-in-Chief Beth Y. Karlan, MD, as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB). Dr. Karlan was one of six recent appointees to the NCAB, an 18-member panel tasked with advising the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the president on a range of issues affecting the nation's cancer program and, specifically, NCI operations. READ MORE

IN THE NEWS 

(Dec. 17, 2012) According to survey results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, many women who received indeterminate BRCA test results chose to have additional ovarian cancer screening and risk-reducing procedures. SGO member Pamela T. Soliman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was interviewed on camera about this survey.  READ MORE

(Dec. 6, 2012) The effectiveness of ovarian cancer screening was examined in a recent Healthbeat segment on WLS-TV (ABC-7) in Chicago, IL, which featured interviews with two SGO members: Julian Schink, MD, from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University; and Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD, a professor in the Department of OB/GYN at the University of Chicago. READ MORE

(Dec. 6, 2012) SGO member Alexander Burnett, MD, Director of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, discusses the possibility of having dogs specially trained to detect ovarian cancer from the scent of urine samples in a recent segment on WBBM-TV (CBS-2) in Chicago, IL. READ MORE

(Dec. 1, 2012) In this report from the Statesman Journal in Salem, OR, a partnership between the Salem Cancer Institute in Salem and the Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute in Portland enables Portland gynecologic oncologist and SGO member Elizabeth Munro, MD, the ability to provide care to patients in Salem where the patient population is large enough to indicate a need for certain specialized services, but too small to hire more doctors. 
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(Dec. 7, 2012) Susan Gubar, ovarian cancer survivor and writer of the New York Times blog "Living with Cancer" reflects upon clinical trials at the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center and drug shortages nationwide as she travels east for her mother's funeral and burial. READ MORE

(Dec. 4, 2012) On October 2, 2012, medical students, faculty, educators, and administrators convened at the New York Academy of Sciences to discuss how medical schools can reduce health disparities by promoting more diversity in health care professions, equipping doctors with tools to serve underrepresented groups, and reaching out to the community. The Prioritizing Health Disparities in Medical Education to Improve Care conference was sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Associated Medical Schools of New York, the New York University School of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Sciences. READ MORE