Dr. Jennifer Y. Pierce was recruited to MCI from the Medical University of South Carolina, where she served as GYN Oncology Disease Team Leader at Hollings Cancer Center and Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology. With a degree in medicine from MUSC and degrees in engineering and public health from the University of Virginia – Charlottesville, Dr. Pierce became the first female gynecologic oncologist in South Carolina in 2009. Dr. Pierce serves on the National HPV Roundtable as well as on the cervical cancer and immunotherapy committees for the NRG, the cooperative clinical trials group of the NCI. Dr. Pierce treats patients suffering from gynecologic malignancies, including all medical and surgical aspects.
View a full list of Dr. Pierce's research papers at the National Library of Medicine.
Pierce said the HPV test should be used as the primary method of screening, an approach that is being adopted by health organizations, including the ASCCP, the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology.
Jennifer Young Pierce, M.D., M.P.H., will give an oral presentation outlining the results of a study that looked at positive results of cancer survivors who participated in culinary medicine classes.
The three-year fellowship, one of 61 in the United States, significantly will improve access to gynecologic cancer care for women in Alabama.
As director, Pierce says she fulfills the roles of principal, counselor, recruiter, financial officer, time keeper and registrar for 16 physicians in training.
Dr. Jennifer Young Pierce, professor of Interdisciplinary Clinical Oncology and leader of Cancer Control and Prevention at USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute, is one of 16 oncologists to be chosen for a leadership development program by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
USA Health researchers studying HPV vaccination rates in Alabama discovered that counties with higher rates of HPV-related cancers in unvaccinated adults had higher rates of HPV vaccinations among adolescents, according to research presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.
USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute has launched a statewide campaign called “GO Teal and White” to raise awareness about how to prevent cervical cancer, which is killing more women in Alabama than in any other state in the nation. The campaign will run throughout January, Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.
