Mark A. Morgan, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S., Named Chief of Gynecologic Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center

PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 7, 2006)Mark A. Morgan, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S., has been named chief of gynecologic oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Morgan's clinical interests include complex gynecologic surgery and the surgical management of gynecologic malignancies, including ovarian, uterine, vulvar and cervical cancers.

Morgan has special expertise in laparoscopic surgery and fertility-sparing surgery for early cervical cancer. He also has expertise in the surgical treatment of urinary and rectal fistulas.

He came to Fox Chase's surgical oncology department from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, where he was a professor in the division of gynecologic oncology. He was also the founder and director of the division of urogynecology and female reconstructive pelvic surgery.

His teaching responsibilities at the University of Pennsylvania included supervising medical students and residents as well as clinical fellows in both gynecologic oncology and urogynecology. He also was principal investigator of the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) while at Penn.

Morgan received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers College and his M.D. in 1982 from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, where he was elected to the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha. He also received the Merck Company Award for General Excellence. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

He currently serves on the American College of Surgeons (ACOS) board of governors, the Phase I Committee of GOG and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' In-Training Examination Committee. Previous memberships on national committees include GOG's Gynecologic Oncology Committee and the ACOS Committee on Young Surgeons and Committee on Ethics.

Morgan has given many invited lectures throughout the world and published numerous research papers and book chapters. He also travels to Africa yearly on surgical missions to treat women with obstetric fistulas.

Fox Chase Cancer Center was founded in 1904 in Philadelphia, Pa. as the nation's first cancer hospital. In 1974, Fox Chase became one of the first institutions designated as a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center. Fox Chase conducts basic, clinical, population and translational research; programs of prevention, detection and treatment of cancer; and community outreach. For more information about Fox Chase activities, visit the Center's web site at www.fccc.edu.