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Gee, Rebekah

Date:April 23, 2007

Name:Rebekah E. Gee, M.D., M.P.H.

Office:13th Floor Blockley Hall

423 Guardian Drive

Philadelphia, PA

(617) 504-2991

Email:

Education:

2002M.D.Cornell University Medical College

1998M.P.H.Columbia School of Public Health

Major: Health Policy and Management

1997B.A.Columbia College/Columbia University

Major: American History

Postdoctoral Training:

2006-FellowUniversity of Pennsylvania

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar

2002-06ResidentObstetrics and Gynecology

Harvard University,

Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston/MA

Clinical Appointment:

2006-Attending physician, VA hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with teaching responsibilities to the residents at the University of Pennsylvania

Academic Appointments:

2006-Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

2006-Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

University of Pennsylvania

2002-06 Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology,

Harvard Medical School.

Healthcare Organization Responsibilities:

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

2005-Clinical Practice Guidelines—Gynecology

Committee Member

2003-06State Chair and Vice Chair, ACOG Junior Fellows, Massachusetts

American Medical Association (AMA)

2001-02AMA- Representative to the Council on Scientific Affairs

2001AMA-MSS Reference Committee

Policy Work:

2007Physician advisor to Governor Rendell’s (PA) office of health care reform

2003-07Health policy advisor to Massachusetts Public Health CommitteeChair, Representative Peter Koutoujian

2005Co-Author of Massachusetts Legislation passed 2005 “An Act to Provide Timely Access to Emergency Contraception.”

Licensure:

Pennsylvania

Awards:

2006Courting Justice Award, Choice USA

2005Expanding the boundaries award. Harvard Medical School

2002Poucher Prize for Proficiency in Obstetrics and Gynecology-Cornell University

2002Roberts Prize for best original research -Cornell University

2001-2002David P. Barr Fellow, Cornell University

Lectures by Invitation:

  1. September 12, 2007: Annual meeting nurse practitioners in women’s health: “Healthcare reform: past history and future challenges.”
  2. May 17, 2007: Charlestown citizens forum: “Health care reform, pipedream or possibility”
  3. May 7, 2007: ACOG annual meeting press briefing: “Unintended pregnancy and America.”
  4. March 17, 2007: Pennsylvania Senate Democrats: “Healthcare reform, Massachusetts and beyond”
  5. February 2, 2007: Grand rounds University of Pennsylvania: “Contraception from Arsenic to Plan B”
  6. January 22, 2006: Dean’s lecture at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine entitled “Physician Advocacy, contraception, plan B and abortion”
  7. November 15,2006: University of Pennsylvania Law School, “Roe v. Wade, Wal-Mart and Beyond”
  8. November 8, 2006: Temple Law School, “Carhart and Casey, Supreme Court Law and Women’s Health.”
  9. October 2,2006: The ABCs of Contraception: ACOG media event
  10. February 5, 2003: Keynote speaker at NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts annual meeting “30 years after Roe V. Wade”

Bibliography:

  1. Emergency contraception knowledge after a community education campaign. Gee RE, Delli Bovi L, Chuang C. In submission: Obstetrics and Gynecology.
  2. Shacter, H, Gee, RE and Long J. Variation of Availability of Emergency Contraception in Pharmacies. Contraception. 2007; 75 (3):214-7.
  3. Gee, RE Plan B, Reproductive Rights and Physician Activism. New England Journal of Medicine. July 6, 2006; 4-5.
  4. Identifying the relative risk of factors associated with monochorionic pregnancies. SkiadasC, Missmer SA, Gee RE and Racowsky C. Abstract presented at ASRMannual meeting 2006.
  5. Ledger WJ, Gee R, Genc M, et al. Human papillomavirus testing in women with an abnormal Pap smear. It J Gynecol Obstet. 2004;16:51-57.
  6. Gee RE. Fins JJ. Barriers to pain and symptom management, opioids, health policy, and drug benefits. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. 25(2):101-3, 2003 Feb.
  7. Gee,RE. Ovarian function and ovulation induction. Challenger Corporation. OB/GYN CD ROM review course, 2003.