Jennifer M. Scalici MD is a Professor and Chief of the Gynecologic Oncology Division at the Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She serves as the Gyn Oncology Research Working Group Leader, and Co-chair of Surgical Quality in the Department of GynOB. She joined the division at Emory in the fall of 2024, spending the previous 12 yrs at the University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute where she directed the division of Gynecologic Oncology and the Gyn Onc Research laboratory. She earned her medical degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, completed an OBGYN residency at Northwestern University and her Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Scalici’s research has centered around Ovarian Cancer carcinogenesis, chemoprevention, the development of targeted agents, and understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying raciallydisparities in gynecologic malignancies. Her research has been funded through the Department of Defense. She served as a Co-Chair of the NCI Clinical Trials Planning Committee for cervical cancer in 2018, she is a member of the NRG Translational Science committee, has served on the NRG Cancer Prevention and Control Committee, and completed a fellowship in the inaugural cohort of the Women’s Policy Institute (WPI), an equity-centered, woman-led initiative dedicated to improving the lives of women in the State of Alabama. She is a founding member of the Deep South Consortium for Oncology (DSCO) allowing her to continue this work in the greater Atlanta community and across the Deep South.