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GESTATIONAL TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASES,
INFORMATION AND SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS

  

INFORMATION ABOUT GESTATIONAL TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE

We recommend the following internet sites for information on Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, Hydatidiform Mole and Choriocarcinoma to the public.

1. The International Society for Study of Trophoblastic Diseases website - 
http://www.isstd.org/intro/index.html

2. The e-medicine site -
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1047.htm

3.  The Ob-Gyn Net site http://www.obgyn.net/women/articles/molarpreg_dah.htm

4.  The All Refer site -
http://health.allrefer.com/health/gestational-trophoblastic-disease-info.html

For the physician only, we refer you to the only text book dedicated to the treatment and management of Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases -

http://www.isstd.org/gtd/index.html

 

INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIALIST PHYSICIANS

These are Gynecologic Oncologist or Oncologist who are either experts in the treatment and management of gestational trophoblastic diseases, or those that run specialty clinics or specialty centers just for these conditions. The source is membership in the International Society for Study of Trophoblastic Diseases. A small society of super-specialists that meets every 2 years.
Shown in Green are the specialist gestational trophoblast treatment centers, found in the UK, USA and Netherlands.

 

 

AUSTRALIA

 

Michael Friedlander, MD, PhD

Prince of Wales Hospital

Barker Street

Randwick, Sydney NSW 2031

Australia

Telephone: 98322606

Fax: 93822588

E-mail: m.friedlander@unsw@du.au 

 

Greg Robertson, MD

Royal Hospital for Women

Gynecological Cancer Centre

Lockso  BAU 2000

Randwick 2031

Australia

Telephone: 61-2-93826291

Fax: 61-2-93826200

E-mail: g.robertson@unsw.edu.au 


Stephen James Steigrad, MD

Royal Hospital for Women

Barker St 

Randwick NSW 2031

Australia  

Telephone: 61-2-9382-6666

Fax:  61-2-9382-6638

E-mail: steigrads@sesahs.nsw.gov.au

 

 

CANADA

 

Alan H. Gerulath, MD

University of Toronto

55 Quan St E # 202

St. Michael's Hosptial

30 Bond St

Toronto, Int K5C 1R6

Canada

Telephone: 416-864-5390

Fax: 416-864-5045 

 

 

Raymond Osborne, MD

TSRCC 

2075 Bayview Ave

Toronto M4R.IK6

Canada

Telephone: 416-480-4026

Fax: 416-480-6002

E-mail:  ray.osbourne@sw.ca

 

CHINA

 

Ting-Chang Chang, MD

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 

Linkou Medical Center

5 Fu-shin Rd. 

Kwei-Shan County, Taoyuan 333

Taiwan

Telephone: 011-886-968-372-668

Fax: 011-886-3-3288252

E-mail: tingchang@adm.agmh.org.tw 

 

 

Ngan Yuen Sheung Hextan, MD

Professor

University of Hong Kong

Queen Mary Hospital

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Pokfulam Road

Hong Kong

China

Telephone: 852-28554684

Fax: 852-28550947

E-mail: hysnagan@hkucc.hku.hk

 

L.C. Wong

Hong Kong University

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Hong Kong

China

Fax: 852-28550947

 

 

 

HUNGARY

 

 Vilmos Fülöp, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, DSc

National Health Center

Semmelwis University
35 Szabolcs Street 
Budapest H-1139
Hungary
Telephone 36- 1-3504760
Fax 36-1-350-4738
E mail: fulopvilmos@freemail.hu 

 

 

INDIA

 

Sekharan P.K., MD

Medical College, Calicut

Dwaraka

State Bank Officer's Colony

Calicut, Kerala 673017

India

Telephone:   91-495-2356954

E-mail: pksekharan@hotmail.com

 

 

 

ISRAEL

 

Anteby Shaoul Ouziel, MD

proferssor, Hadassah University Hospital

13 Hamaadilim St

Jerusalem

Israel

Telephone: 972-2-5617795

Fax: 972-2-6426554

 

 

 

JAPAN

 

Tamotsu Hando, MD, PhD

Professor

Niigata Seiryo University

1-5939, Suido-cho

Niigata-city, Niigata 951-8121

Japan

Telephone: 81-25-266-9455

Fax: 81-25-266-9455

E-mail: handou@n-seiryo.ac.jp 

 

 

Hiroyuki Kuramoto, MD

Kitasato University

Department of ObGyn

1-15-1 Kitasato

Sagami'hara 228-8555

Japan

Telephone: 81-42-778-8111

Fax: 81-42-778-9433

E-mail: kuramoto@cc.kitasato-u.ac.jp

 

 

Shigeru Sasaki, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Director

Nippon Medical School

Tama-Nagayama Hospital

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

7-6-35 Oizumi-Gakuen-Cho

Nerima-Ku, Tokyo 178-0061

Japan

Telephone: 81-3-3921-5630

Fax: 81-3-3921-2840

E-mail:  sasakimd@rr.iij4u.or.jp

 

 

Norio Wake, MD

Medical Institute of Bioregulation Kyushu University

Tsurumihara 4546 

Beppu 874-0836

Japan 

Telephone:  81-0977-27-1660

Fax:  81-0977-27-1661

E-mail:  nwake@tsurumi.beppu.kyushu-u.ac.jp   

 

 

KOREA

 

Seung Jo Kim, MD

Pochon CHA University

Bundang CHA General Hospital

Gynecologic Cancer Center

351Yatap Dong 

Bundang-Kue

Sung Nam Sie 463-712  

KOREA  

Telephone: 82-31-780-5006

Fax: 82-31-780-5900

E-mail: sjkim@chamc.co.kr 

 

Im-Ho Kim, MD, PhD

Pochon CHA University

Budang CHA Medical Center, College of Medicine

Comprehensive Gynecologic Cancer Center

351 Yatap-dong, Budang-gu

Seongnam-si Gyeonggi-do 463-712

Republic of Korea

Telephone: 82-31-780-6191

Fax: 82-31-780-6194

E-mail: jaminho@hanmail.net  

 

Hyo-Pyo Lee, MD

Professor

Seoul National University Hospital

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

28 Yungun Dong, Chongno-Ku

Seoul 110-744

SOUTH KOREA

Telephone: 82-2-760-2402

Fax: 82-2-762-3599

E-mail: hplee@snu.ac.kr 

 

 

Joo-Hyun Nam, MD, PhD

Department of ObGyn

University of Ulsam

College of Medicine

Asan Medical Center

388-1 Poongnap-dong

Songpa-Gu, Seul 138-736

Korea

Telephone: 82-2-3010-3633

Fax: 82-2-476-7331

E-mail: jhnam@amc.seul.kr 

 

 

NETHERLANDS 

 

Anca Ansink, MD

Erasmus MC Daniel Den Hued Oncology Center

PO Box 5201

Rotterdam 30M AE

The Netherlands

Telephone: 0031104391263

Fax: 0031104391011

E-mail: a.ansink@erasmusmc.nl 

 

M.J. Ten Kate Booij, MD, PhD

Amphia Hospital Breda

Department of Gynecology

Langendyk 75

Breda US47NE

The Netherlands

mtkate@amphia.nl

 

Charles Schijf, MD

Netherlands Trophoblastic Disease Center

UMC St Radbound

Gynecologic Oncology

PB 9101

6500 HB Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Telephone: 31-24-3616987

E-mail: c.schijf@obgyn.umcn.n2 

 

 

 NORWAY

 

Gunnar Kristensen, MD, PhD

The Norwegian Radium Hospital

Montebello

Oslo 0310

Norway

Telephone:  47-22934000

Fax: 47-22934469

Email: gunnar.kristensen@klinmed.uio.no 

 

Janne Kaern, MD, PhD

The Northwestern Radium Hospital

Department of Gynecology & Oncology

Montebella N-0310 0510

Oslo N-0310

NORWAY

Telephone: 47-22934000

Fax: 47-22934469

E-mail: jkarn@klinmed.uio.no

 

 

PHILIPPINES

 

Maria Stephanie Fay S. Cagayan, MD

University of the Philippines 

Philippine General Hospital

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

547 Pedro Gil St

Ermita, Manila 1000

Philippines 

Telephone:  632-526-4248

Fax:  632-521-8251

E-mail: faye_cagayan@hotmail.com

 

Lourdes Blanco Capito, MD

University of The Philippines

Philippine General Hospital

Department of ObGyne

Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila

12 STA.FE St. Kapitolyo

Pasig City 1603

Philippines

Telephone: 663-6811

E-mail: rolandscapito@hotmail.com

 

Gregorio Pastorfide, MD

University of the Philippines

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

10 Abueva St. Corinthian Gardens

Quezon City

Phillipines 1503 

Telephone: 633-1096

E-mail: gbp71642@info.com.ph

 

 

 SOUTH AMERICA

 

Wuilbert Rodriguez, MD

Instituto Enfermedades Neoplasicas

Av. Angamos Este 2520 - Surquillo

Lima 41

Peru

Telephone: 51-1-3724547

Fax: 51-1-2251572

E-mail: wrodriguez@inen.sld.pe 

 

Paolo Belfort MD,

Obstetrics & Gynecology,

Rua 19 de Fevereiro,

147 Rio de Janiero,

Brazil

 

 

TURKEY

 

 S. Sinan Ozalp, MD

Professor

Osmaugazi University Faculty of Medicine

Ismet Inonu Cad No 51/A

26130 Eskisehir

Turkey 

Telephone: 90-222-2314145

Fax:  90-222-2398412

E-mail: ssozalp@superonline.com 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM

 

 

Barry W Hancock, MD

Professor

Sheffield Trophoblastic Disease Center

University of Sheffield

Westin Park Hospital

YCR Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology

Whitham Road

Sheffield S10 2SJ

United Kingdom

Telephone: 0114-226-5007

Fax: 0114-226-5511

E-mail: b.w.hancock@sheffield.ac.uk 

 

Neil J. Sebine., MD

London Trophoblastic Disease Center

Charing Cross Hospital

Fulham Palace Road

London, England W6 8RF

United Kingdom

Telephone: 44 (0) 20 8846 1421

Fax: 44(0) 20 8748 5665

E-mail: sebine@gosh.hns.uk 

 

Michael J. Seckl, MD

London Trophoblastic Disease Center

Charing Cross Hospital

Fulham Palace Road

London, England W6 8RF

United Kingdom

Telephone: 44 (0) 20 8846 1421

Fax: 44(0) 20 8748 5665

E-mail: m.seckl@imperial.ac.uk

 


    John A. Tidy, MD
Sheffield Trophoblastic Disease Center

Royal Hallamhire Hospital

Room 18, Glossop Road
Sheffield, S10 25F
United Kingdom
Telephone: 44-1142268570
Fax: 44-1142261095
E mail: john.tidy@sth.nhs.uk

 


 Margaret A R Thomson,  MD

Director of the Scottish Hydatidiform Mole Follow-up Service

Ward 37/38

Ninewells Hospital

Dundee DD1 9SY

United Kingdom

Telephone: 44-1382 632749 

E-mail: margaret.a.r.thomson@tuht.scot.nks.uk

 

 

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

Carol Aghajanian, MD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1275 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021

Unites States of America

Telephone: 212-639-2252

Fax: 212-639-8865

E-mail: aghajanc@mskcc.org 

 

 

Ross S. Berkowitz, MD 

New England Trophoblastic Disease Center

Director of Gynecologic Oncology

Brigham & Women’s Hospital

75 Francis Street

Boston, MA 02115

United States of America
Telephone: 617-732-8843

Fax:  617-738-5124 

E-mail: rsberkowit@partners.org

 

Marvin Camel, MD

Washington University St Louis

Medical School

Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology

202 N. Brentwood

St. Louis, MO 63105

United States of America
Telephone: 314-726-6701

Fax:  314-362-8644

E-mail: hmcamel@mindspring.com

 

Laurence Cole, PhD

Professor

University of New Mexico

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

2211 Lomas Blvd. NE ACC 4

MSC 105580
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

United States of America
Telephone: 505-272-6137

Fax: 505-272-3903

E-mail: larry@hcglab.com  

 

Donald Goldstein, MD

New England Trophoblastic Disease Cente

Harvard Medical School

Brigham & Women’s Hospital

75 Francis Street

Boston, MA 02115  

United States of America

Telephone:  617-732-8854

Fax:  617-738-5124

E-mail: dgoldstein@partners.org

 

Charles B. Hammond, MD

Southeast Gestational Trophoblast Disease Center

Duke University Medical Center

Department of ObGyn

Box 3853

Durham, North Carolina 27710

United States of America

Telephone: 919-684-3008

Fax: 919-684-6161

E-mail: hammo005@mc.duke.edu 

 

Robert D. Hilgers, MD

Executive Director

International Gynecologic Cancer Society

PO Box 6388

Louisville, Kentucky 40206

United States of America

Telephone: 502-895-8589

Fax: 502-899-3696

E:mail: robhilg@aol.com

 

Ernest I. Kohorn, MD

Yale Trophoblastic Disease Center

Yale University School of Medicine

Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

333 Cedar Street

Box 208063

New Haven, CT 06510  

Telephone: 203-795-3151

Fax: 203-795-4139

E-mail: ernest.kohorn@yale.edu

 

 

John R. Lurain, MD

John I. Brewer Trophoblastic Disease Center

Professor of Gynecology and Cancer Research

Northwestern University  

Feinberg School of Medicine

333 E. Superior Street, Suite 420

Chicago, Il 60611

United States of America

Telephone: 312-926-7365

Fax: 312-926-2188

E-mail: jlurain@nmh.org 

 

Roland A. Pattillo, MD

Professor

Morehouse School of Medicine

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

720 Westview Drive SW

Atlanta, GA 30310

United States of America

Telephone: (404) 752-1500

E-mail: patilor@msm.edu 

 

Thomas Rutherford, MD, PhD

Yale University School of Medicine

Department of ObGyn

333 Cedar Street

New Haven, Connecticut 06520

United States of America

Telephone: 203-785-6301

Fax: 203-785-6782

E-mail: thomas.rutherford@yale.edu 

 

John Soper MD

Southeast Gestational Trophoblast Disease Center

Department of Gynecology, Duke University

Box 3078, Durham, NC

 

Harriet O. Smith, MD

University of New Mexico

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

2211 Lomas Blvd ACC4

Albuquerque, NM 87131

United States of America

Telephone: 505-272-3392

Fax: 505-272-6385

E-mail: hsmith@salud.unm.edu 

  

 

Leo B. Twiggs, MD

University of Miami

1801 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 420

Miami, Florida 33136

United States of America

Telephone: 305-243-2576

Fax: 305-243-2583

E-mail: LTWiggs@med.miami.edu 

 
   

 

 

 

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