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Teresa P. Diaz-Montes, M.D., MPH, FACOG, serves as the Associate Director of The Lya Segall Ovarian Cancer Institute. She also is a noted expert and gynecologic oncologist with The Gynecologic Oncology Center at Mercy, a leading Center in Baltimore for the treatment of cancers of the female reproductive tract. Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes provides diagnosis and treatment for gynecologic cancers including ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulvar cancer. Board Certified in Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes provides treatment for a diverse range of gynecologic cancers. Her primary clinical interests include ovarian cancer treatments, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, including robotic surgery, and patient safety and quality. Additional areas of interest include cervical cancer, fallopian tube cancer, fertility-sparing surgery and uterine, vaginal and vulvar cancers. Bringing a friendly approach to the treatment of her patients, Dr. Diaz-Montes takes the necessary time to listen to the needs of her patients and address their concerns. As a recipient of the Patient's Choice award, her approachable, caring bedside manner has been formally recognized by her patients. Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes is known for her knowledge and dedication to finding advanced treatments for gynecologic cancers. Her expert opinion is often sought by media outlets and she has been featured in notable publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She was also featured by The Sun Magazine as "One of 50 Women to Watch" for her dedication to innovative treatments for ovarian cancer. Dr. Diaz-Montes has extensive experience in research and resident teaching activities. She has conducted various clinical trials to advance the care of gynecologic cancers, particularly ovarian cancer. She and colleagues in The Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy are conducting the first clinical study in the United States regarding the treatment of ovarian cancer with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, also known as HIPEC. Dr. Diaz-Montes, an author and international lecturer, has numerous clinical publications related to women鈥檚 cancer treatment to her credit.
Awards and Honors
Top Doctor in Gynecologic Oncology, Baltimore magazine
Top Doctor in Gynecologic Oncology, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

 works to increase reproductive efficiency in humans and animals by increasing our understanding of the ovary, oviduct, and uterus. Projects in his lab include understanding how the uterus stores nutrients to support early pregnancy, how endocrine disruption chemicals (EDCs) affect the function of the oviduct, and the early events in the development of ovarian cancer.
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Approximately 50% of pregnancies are lost in both humans and livestock, with most losses occurring before or during embryo implantation. During this time embryos are dependent on secretions to support and regulate embryonic growth, while the uterine endometrium must prepare for implantation. Dean's lab is working to understand how nutrients, such as glucose, are taken up, stored by the uterus, and used by the embryo and endometrium during early pregnancy. Their goal is to undercover ways to increase fertility in humans and livestock.
Ovarian cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer death in women. Part of the reason for this is a poor understanding of the early events in disease development. It is now clear that high-grade serous ovarian cancer (the most lethal subtype) originates in the fallopian tube epithelium and spreads to the ovary very early in disease development. The Dean lab is working to understand how these tumor cells recruit cancer associated fibroblasts and remodel the extracellular matrix in the ovary during colonization.
Affiliations:
Dean is an assistant professor in the  and the  in the  (ACES) at the .

Amanda Jean Stevenson is a sociologist trained in demographic and computer science methods.  She studies the impacts of and responses to abortion and family planning policy. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. In her current research, she uses demographic methods to study the impacts of reproductive health policies, and computational methods to study social responses to these policies.
At Boulder she leads the Colorado Fertility Project, a team using massive restricted-access administrative data at the Census Bureau to evaluate the life course consequences of access to (as opposed to use of) highly effective contraception. With funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the team is developing an individual-level longitudinal dataset Integrate administrative records and surveys to build a large-scale, individual-level longitudinal dataset, to be called Reproduction in People’s Lives (RIPL), describing the life course of nearly all US residents.
She also co-leads a collaborative project using mixed-methods to evaluate the impacts of parental involvement laws and the judicial bypass process for minors seeking abortion care.  
Her analyses of the impact of reproductive health policies have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Advances, the American Journal of Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the journal Contraception.  She translates her results into policy-relevant findings for non-academic audiences. For example, she regularly testifies on the demographic impacts of legislation, she developed an app to disseminate local impact estimates from her policy evaluation work, and her research has been cited by the United States Supreme Court, and in The New York Times, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Austin-American Statesman, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, and other outlets.
Another line of research examines the social responses to reproductive health policies. In this project, she uses Twitter responses, website content, media coverage, and in-depth interviews to examine the social movement response to Texas' 2013 abortion restrictions. The case provides an opportunity to investigate how social movements negotiate intersectional critiques from within their ranks. She focuses on the role of emotions and relationships in transmitting intersectional framing and analyses to central actors and the ways in which elites' adoptions of intersectional rhetoric shifts power within a movement.