Gee, Rebekah
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Date:
April 23, 2007
Name:
Rebekah E. Gee, M.D., M.P.H.
Office:
13th Floor Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA
(617) 504-2991
Email:
rebe@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education:
2002
M.D.
Cornell University Medical College
1998
M.P.H.
Columbia School of Public Health
Major: Health Policy and Management
1997
B.A.
Columbia College/Columbia University
Major: American History
Postdoctoral Training:
2006-
Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar
2002-06
Resident
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Harvard University,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts
General Hospital
Boston/MA
Clinical Appointment:
2006-
Attending physician, VA hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with
teaching responsibilities to the residents at the University of Pennsylvania
Academic Appointments:
2006-
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Gee, Rebekah
2006-
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
University of Pennsylvania
2002-06
Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology,
Harvard Medical School.
Healthcare Organization Responsibilities:
2003-06
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Clinical Practice Guidelines—Gynecology
Committee Member
State Chair and Vice Chair, ACOG Junior Fellows, Massachusetts
2001-02
2001
American Medical Association (AMA)
AMA- Representative to the Council on Scientific Affairs
AMA-MSS Reference Committee
2005-
Policy Work:
2007
Physician advisor to Governor Rendell’s (PA) office of health care reform
2003-07
Health policy advisor to Massachusetts Public Health Committee Chair,
Representative Peter Koutoujian
2005
Co-Author of Massachusetts Legislation passed 2005 “An Act to Provide
Timely Access to Emergency Contraception.”
Licensure:
Pennsylvania
Awards:
2006
2005
2002
2002
2001-2002
Courting Justice Award, Choice USA
Expanding the boundaries award. Harvard Medical School
Poucher Prize for Proficiency in Obstetrics and GynecologyCornell University
Roberts Prize for best original research -Cornell University
David P. Barr Fellow, Cornell University
Lectures by Invitation:
1. September 12, 2007: Annual meeting nurse practitioners in women’s health:
“Healthcare reform: past history and future challenges.”
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2. May 17, 2007: Charlestown citizens forum: “Health care reform, pipedream or
possibility”
3. May 7, 2007: ACOG annual meeting press briefing: “Unintended pregnancy and
America.”
4. March 17, 2007: Pennsylvania Senate Democrats: “Healthcare reform, Massachusetts
and beyond”
5. February 2, 2007: Grand rounds University of Pennsylvania: “Contraception from
Arsenic to Plan B”
6. January 22, 2006: Dean’s lecture at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
entitled “Physician Advocacy, contraception, plan B and abortion”
7. November 15,2006: University of Pennsylvania Law School, “Roe v. Wade, WalMart and Beyond”
8. November 8, 2006: Temple Law School, “Carhart and Casey, Supreme Court Law
and Women’s Health.”
9. October 2,2006: The ABCs of Contraception: ACOG media event
10. February 5, 2003: Keynote speaker at NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts annual
meeting “30 years after Roe V. Wade”
Bibliography:
1. Emergency contraception knowledge after a community education campaign. Gee RE,
Delli Bovi L, Chuang C. In submission: Obstetrics and Gynecology.
2. Shacter, H, Gee, RE and Long J. Variation of Availability of Emergency Contraception
in Pharmacies. Contraception. 2007; 75 (3):214-7.
3. Gee, RE Plan B, Reproductive Rights and Physician Activism. New England Journal of
Medicine. July 6, 2006; 4-5.
4. Identifying the relative risk of factors associated with monochorionic pregnancies.
Skiadas C, Missmer SA, Gee RE and Racowsky C. Abstract presented at ASRM annual
meeting 2006.
5. Ledger WJ, Gee R, Genc M, et al. Human papillomavirus testing in women with an
abnormal Pap smear. It J Gynecol Obstet. 2004;16:51-57.
6. Gee RE. Fins JJ. Barriers to pain and symptom management, opioids, health policy, and
drug benefits. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. 25(2):101-3, 2003 Feb.
7. Gee,RE. Ovarian function and ovulation induction. Challenger Corporation. OB/GYN
CD ROM review course, 2003.