Resident Scholars Day

Laurel W. Rice Visiting Professor and Keynote Presenter

Uterine Fibroids: Novel Therapies, Future Advances

William Catherino, MD, PhD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Dr. Catherino completed medical and graduate school training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, residency training at Duke University Medical Center, and fellowship training at the NIH. He became Board Certified in OB/GYN in 2005, REI in 2007, and has been a Boards Examiner, served on the REI Qualifying and Certifying Division Committee, and ultimately joined the Board of Directors for the Division of REI for ABOG. He became Research Director in 2004, and has been promoted to Full Professor with Tenure in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at USUHS in 2013. He is currently the Vice Chair of Research in the Department, where he studies the molecular mechanisms of fibroid development. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has been continuously funded. Dr. Catherino is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Fertility and Sterility – Science. He serves at the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology as a Division Member for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He cares for a wide array of patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health. 

Christina Dudley, MD

Pelvic Infection After Egg Retrieval In Patients with Endometriosis

Jeannette Larson, MD

Tubes and Turns: How Politics Tied the Knot on Reproductive Choices

Naomi Roselaar, MD

The Impact of Dobbs on Management of Early Pregnancy Problems and Patient Experiences According to Wisconsin OBGYNS: A Pilot Survey Study

Jamie Bakkum-Gamez, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Dr. Jamie N. Bakkum-Gamez is a consultant in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Bakkum-Gamez joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in 2009 and holds the academic rank of professor of obstetrics and gynecology within the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. She earned her medical degree at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2002 and completed OB/GYN residency and gynecologic oncology fellowship at Mayo Clinic. 

Dr. Bakkum-Gamez’s primary research focuses on early detection strategies and novel therapeutics in ovarian and endometrial cancer. Her clinical research interests also include the study of quality, safety and value in gynecologic surgery as well as ovarian and fallopian tube cancer risk reduction. Dr. Bakkum-Gamez has authored over 180 peer-reviewed publications, co-leads the Administrative Core and co-directs the Career Enhancement Program of the Mayo Clinic SPORE in Ovarian Cancer, and will serve alongside Dr. Scott Kaufmann as MPI of the Mayo Clinic SPORE in Ovarian Cancer in the grant renewal application submitted in September 2025. She also serves as Mayo Clinic’s Rochester Surgical Quality Subcommittee Chair, as a Deputy Editor for the journal Gynecologic Oncology Reports, and on the board of the Foundation for Women’s Cancer where she chairs the Development Committee.

Aaditi Naik, MD

Improving Code Status Documentation for Gynecologic Oncology Inpatients

Kaitlyn Anderholm, MD

Convenience is Not Learning: A Rapid Narrative Review of Artificial Intelligence in Obstetrics and Gynecology Education

Rusha Bajpai, MD

Adnexal Mass Referral Patterns in Gynecologic Oncology

Kharmen Bharucha, MD

Clinical and Molecular Determinants of Response to Poly(ADP) Ribose Polymerase Inhibitor Maintenance for Primary and Recurrent Ovarian Cancer