Beth Y. Karlan, M.D. is Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She holds the Nancy Marks endowed chair in Women’s Health Research and is the Director of Cancer Population Genetics at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Karlan’s research focuses on improving outcomes for women with ovarian and other gynecologic malignancies as well as better characterizing inherited cancer susceptibility syndromes. She has authored over 500 peer-reviewed research publications. For more than ten years she was Editor-in-Chief of the journals Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology Reports and now serves as Editor Emeritus of both journals. She is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor and has served in many national leadership roles including president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. She has helped train a generation of physicians and scientists who are making their own contributions to medicine. Dr. Karlan sits on Sharsheret’s Medical Advisory Board. She also served on the National Cancer Advisory Board and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Cancer Policy Forum. Her contributions have been recognized by her peers with multiple awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Gynecologic Cancer, a Director’s Service Award from the National Cancer Institute and a Giant of Cancer Care in Gynecologic Malignancies from OncLive.