The Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology

Whitfield B. Growdon, MD

Gyn Onc Clinical Fellow

Education and Training
Williams College, BA
University of Massachusetts Medical School, MD 
Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, Residency (combined)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship

Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
1998-1999: Research Technician, Massachusetts General Hospital - East

Society Memberships
2007 - present:  Society for Gynecologic Oncology
2002 - present:  American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology 
1999 - present:  American Medical Association
1999 - present:  Massachusetts Medical Society

Honors & Awards
2004:  Outstanding Teacher of Obstetrics & Gynecology
2005:  Outstanding Teacher of Obstetrics & Gynecology
2006:  Outstanding Teacher of Obstetrics & Gynecology
2006:  Children’s Hospital Boston Pediatric Gynecology Award
2006:  MGH Clinical Research Award
2007:  Outstanding Teacher of Obstetrics & Gynecology
2007:  Harvard Medical School Award Outstanding Teaching Resident

Selected peer-reviewed publications

1) Gomez-Isla T, Wasco W, Pettingell WP, Gurubhagavatula S, Schmidt SD, Jondro PD, McNamara M, Rodes LA, DiBlasi T, Growdon WB, Seubert P, Schenk D, Hyman BT, Tanzi RE. A novel presenilin-1 mutation: increased beta-amyloid and neurofibrillary changes. Annals of Neurology 1997; 41:809-13.

2) Irizarry MC, Growdon WB, Gomez-Isla T, Newell K, George JM, Clayton DF, Hyman BT. Nigral and cortical Lewy bodies and dystrophic nigral neurites in Parkinson's disease and cortical Lewy body disease contain alpha-synuclein immunoreactivity. Journal of Neuropathologic Experimental Neurology 1998; 57:334-7.

3) Gomez-Isla T, Growdon WB, McNamara MJ, Nochlin D, Bird TD, Arango JC, Lopera F, Kosik KS, Lantos PL, Cairns NJ, Hyman BT. The impact of different presenilin 1 andpresenilin 2 mutations on amyloid deposition, neurofibrillary changes and neuronal loss in the familial Alzheimer's disease brain: evidence for other phenotype-modifying factors. Brain 1999; 122:1709-19.

4) Rebeck GW, Cheung BS, Growdon WB, Deng A, Akuthota P, Locascio J, Greenberg SM, Hyman BT. Lack of independent associations of apolipoprotein E promoter and intron 1 polymorphisms with Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters 1999; 272:155-8

5) Growdon WB, Cheung BS, Hyman BT, Rebeck GW. Lack of allelic imbalance in APOE epsilon3/4 brain mRNA expression in Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience Letters 1999; 272:83-6.

6) Gomez-Isla T, Growdon WB, McNamara M, Newell K, Gomez-Tortosa E, Hedley-Whyte ET, Hyman BT. Clinicopathologic correlates in temporal cortex in dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurology 1999; 53(Pt 9):2003-9.

7) Growdon WB, Ghika J, Henderson J, van Melle G, Regli F, Bogousslavsky J. Effects of proximal and distal muscles' groups contraction and mental stress on the amplitude and frequency of physiological finger tremor. An accelerometric study. Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol 2000; 40:295-303.

8) Growdon WB, Laufer MR. Ovarian Torsion I + II UpToDate 2005.

9) Growdon WB, Wolfberg AJ, Feltmate C, Goldstein DP, Genest DA, Chinchilla M, Berkowitz RS, Lieberman E Postevacuation hCG levels and risk of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia among women with partial molar pregnancies. J Reprod Med. 2006 Nov;51(11):871-4.

10) Wolfberg AJ, Growdon WB, Feltmate C, Goldstein DP, Genest DA, Chinchilla M, Berkowitz RS, Lieberman E. Partial molar pregnancies do not persist once serum hCG levels become undetectable. Obstet Gynecol. 2006 Aug;108(2):393-6..

11) Feltmate C , Growdon WB, Wolfberg AJ, Goldstein DP, Genest DA, Chinchilla M, Lieberman E, Berkowitz RS, Clinical characteristics of persistent gestational trophoblastic neoplasia after partial hydatidiform molar pregnancy. J Reprod Med. 2006 Nov;51(11):902-6.

12) Growdon WB, Lopez-Varela E, Littell RD, Oliva E, Seiden MV, Krasner CN, Lee H, Fuller AF. Extent of primary disease a powerful predictor of survival in patients with brain metastases from gynecologic cancer. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2007 Jun 22; [Epub ahead of print]

13) Growdon WB, Lopez-Varela E, Littell RD, Oliva E, Seiden MV, Krasner CN, Lee H, Fuller AF. Clinical Characteristics of Brain Metastases from Gynecologic Cancer: A 10 Year Experience . Accepted with edits in Int J Gynecol Oncol 2007

14) Growdon WB, Laufer MR. Uterine Didelphys with Duplicated Upper Vagina and Bilateral Lower Vaginal Agenesis: A Series of a Novel Complex Congenital Anomaly of the Female Reproductive Tract and Surgical Management. Fertil Steril. 2007 Aug 1; [Epub ahead of print]