Dr Erin M George, MD

Dr. George received her MD from Columbia University Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons, New York. She completed a Residency in Obstetricsand Gynecology at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University and aFellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the Hospital of the University ofPennsylvania (Penn). Dr. George joins us from Penn, where she continued afterher fellowship as a physician-scientist with a research interest in developingnovel targeted therapeutics for ovarian and endometrial cancer. There she heldthe rank of Assistant Professor and also served women veterans with gynecologiccancers as an Attending at the Corporal Michael J Crescenz Veteran AffairsMedical Center in Philadelphia.Now here at Moffitt, the overarching goal of the George labis to identify novel targets and strategies to overcome drug resistance inovarian and endometrial cancers. Dr. George is expanding a preclinical drugdevelopment platform, which includes primary tumor cell cultures and …orthotopicpatient-derived xenograft (PDX) models developed from patients' tumorscollected at the time of their surgery. These models will facilitate thetranslation of new treatment options from bench to bedside. The ultimate goalof the lab is to bring therapies with strong preclinical evidence to patientsvia phase I/II clinical trials. Dr. George's clinical interests are inidentifying and treating patients with a genetic predisposition for gynecologiccancers as well as in the mutations and genomic alterations that drive diseaseprogression.  Additionally, she is interested in minimally invasivelaparoscopic and robotic surgery, fertility-sparing surgical techniques, andthe surgical management of advanced gynecologic malignancies.