Board-certified gynecologic oncologist Monique Spillman, MD, PhD, has joined the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology.
She is also co-director of cancer services and a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Prior to joining UAMS, Spillman practiced gynecologic oncology for nine years at Texas Oncology, P.A., part of the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center in Dallas. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s and
Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston and a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at Duke University Medical School in Durham, N. C. She later joined the gynecologic oncology faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in women’s health and established her own molecular biology lab to investigate estrogen’s role in ovarian cancer.
Spillman earned her medical and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical and Graduate Schools respectively, and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.