Biography
Elyce Cardonick, MD, FACOG
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Cancer and Childbirth Registry
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Education and Training
| Medical School: | Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| Residency: | Obstetrics and Gynecology - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY |
| Fellowship: | Maternal Fetal Medicine - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA |
Board Certifications
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Maternal and Fetal Medicine
About Me
Dr. Elyce Cardonick is a Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and member of the division of Maternal Fetal Medicine as a perinatal consultant. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Delaware, Summa cum Laude, in 1987. She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She then earned her Medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1991. A residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology was completed in 1995 at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Bronx, New York. Subspecialty training in Maternal Fetal Medicine was completed at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1997. In 1998, Dr. Cardonick became Board Certified for Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in 2000 board certified for the subspecialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as well as the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Dr. Cardonick maintains a registry of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy and follows closely the outcomes for mother and child. A second portion of the registry is dedicated to the pregnancy outcomes of cancer survivors who have children after completing cancer treatment. Dr. Cardonick has presented on the topic of cancer and pregnancy at international meetings including the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine and both the American College in the US and Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in London UK. She was also invited to speak at the international collaborative meeting of INCIP, an International Network on Cancer, Infertility and Pregnancy as the sole attendee from outside of Europe. She has been invited several times to lecture on cancer in pregnancy at the postgraduate course of the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine. She also presented a poster on the perinatal complications of pregnant women with a history of radiation therapy at the MD Anderson Cancer Center during a cancer and fertility conference. She was an invited participant for the closed meeting the following year.
She was also an invited participant at Georgetown University to discuss the inclusion of women in medical research and presented on this topic as an invited speaker at National Institute of Health concerning this topic as well as a review of chemotherapy exposure during pregnancy.
Dr. Cardonick is medical advisor for the Pregnant with Cancer support network based in Buffalo, NY. She is also only one of two physicians outside of Europe to be invited to join the International Network on Cancer, Infertility and Pregnancy with whom she now collaborates. Awards include Top Docs for Women in 2000 and Top Docs in 2002; Forty under Forty Recipient for Philadelphia Business Journal, Medical College of Pennsylvania/Drexel Medical School Alumni Achievement Aware Recipient and Lower Moreland High School hall of Fame.