Monique A. Spillman, M.D., Ph.D. Gynecologic Oncologist

Academic Biography

Dr. Monique Spillman received her medical degree and doctorate at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical and Graduate Schools in the Medical Scientist Training Program. She then matriculated as an intern and resident at the combined Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard obstetrics and gynecology training program. Her subspecialty training in gynecologic oncology was completed at Duke University Medical Center.

She subsequently was jointly appointed as faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, while completing a postdoctoral women’s health research fellows program and establishing her own molecular biology lab investigating estrogen’s role in ovarian cancer.

In 2014, she relocated to Baylor University Medical Center in a new role as an attending gynecologic oncologist at Texas Oncology. While there she was the OB/GYN clerkship coordinator for medical students from Texas A&M as well as teaching residents from Baylor and Texas Tech Permian Basin.

She pivoted her scholarly interests to medical ethics, leading four national professional ethics committees and is a past chair of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. She has published 56 peer reviewed papers and 20 ethics committee policy papers.

In 2023, she assumed the leadership role as the chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and as medical director for the Ambulatory Cancer Service Line, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.

Administrative Roles

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology — Division of Gynecologic Oncology

Division Chief

Faculty Appointments

Department of Obstetrics And Gynecology

Professor

Education and Training

Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of Colorado School of Medicine
Womenu2019s Health

Fellowship

Duke University Medical Center
Gynecologic Oncology

Residency

Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Medical School

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center