Mission Statement
Our mission is to act to investigate and ameliorate causes of disproportionate suffering from benign and oncologic gynecologic health conditions, so that all people may live full and healthy reproductive lives.
We believe that gynecologic health spans the lifetime and is intimately linked with gynecologic cancers that affect individuals later in life.
Our goal is to unite these perspectives to deepen our understanding of the science of gynecologic cancers through transdisciplinary approaches, grounded in the perspectives of marginalized people with lived experience.
Kemi M. Doll MD, MSCR - Founding Director
Dr. Kemi Doll is a gynecologic oncologist, Associate Professor in the Department of OBGYN, School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health. Her research centers on examining Black-White racial inequity in the care of benign and malignant gynecologic disease in the US. Her work has been funded by the NIH, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Association of Cancer Research, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), as well as numerous foundations. She is the co-founder of ECANA, the Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African-Americans (ecanawomen.org), a national survivor-led 501(c)3 advocacy organization.
Dr. Doll is from Atlanta, GA and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. She attended medical school at Columbia University where she earned a number of awards for academic achievement and humanism in medicine. She completed OBGYN residency training at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL, and went on to complete subspecialty training in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Research from the UNC School of Public Health, where she also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Cancer Care Quality in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
At the University of Washington, Dr. Doll is the health services research director of the gynecologic oncology fellowship, serves on the steering committee of the UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Committee, and was the Founding Director of URM Faculty Development at the UW School of Medicine.
Dr. Doll lives in south Seattle, WA with her family.