Lab Alumni

Shauna Gardino, clinical research coordinator for the Oncofertility Consortium, manages the portfolio of social science research initiatives within the Consortium including a bioethics, law and religion initiative, a willingness to pay assessment out of the economics department, a communications study on the pediatric patient/parent/oncologist decision-making triad, a sociological study on fertility issues associated with breast cancer patients, and an overall quality of life survey for cancer patients. With a background in public health and anthropology, Shauna helps to recruit, consent, and interview patients for the various social science research projects and assists with preparing and submitting research protocols for these projects as well. She is also charged with the task of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, both among the group of social science researchers as well as among basic science and clinical researchers as well.  Additionally, Shauna is currently conducting an independent study on adoption agency attitudes and perspectives towards cancer survivors as potential parents, and has prepared a reflective manuscript on the maternal paradox of thinking about one’s future potential to parent when one is confronted with a cancer diagnosis.

My name is Rosemary Hines. I am a rising sophomore at Harvard University, where I am a premed student with a concentration in History of Science. At Harvard, I run cross-country and track and am a member of Harvard’s chapter for FIMRC (Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children). During my first semester at Harvard, I took a seminar called Child Health in America, which sparked my interest in pediatric health issues in our country. I am a Chicago native and a Cubs fan. I am so thrilled to be joining Woodruff Lab this summer!

Jennifer is joined the IDSA team for the 2010 summer session. She is currently in medical school at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.