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Doctor at Women & Infants Hospital to Appear on Jeopardy!

Release Date: 09/26/2019

William M. Sikov, MD, FACP, FNCBC, a medical oncologist who specializes in breast cancer and associate director of clinical research in the Program in Women’s Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital, will appear as a contestant on the classic American television game show, Jeopardy!, airing on WPRI-TV 12 on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Sikov joined Women & Infants Hospital’s Breast Health Center in July 2003 and became a full-time faculty member in August 2014, when he was also appointed associate director of clinical research in the Program in Women’s Oncology. Dr. Sikov received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1978 and is board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University Health Center in Pittsburgh in 1985 and a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the New England Medical Center in Boston in 1989.

Dr. Sikov’s academic interests include clinical and translational research. He is a nationally recognized expert on neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer and the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer. He has served as study chair for many regional and national breast cancer studies and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2013 and a fellow of the National Consortium of Breast Centers in 2017. He also serves as a clinical associate professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

“I am thrilled and honored to have qualified to be a contestant on Jeopardy! and to have had the opportunity to meet Alex Trebek. I look forward to representing my family, Women & Infants Hospital, and the state of Rhode Island on the show and hope you will tune in!” said Dr. Sikov.  

To watch Dr. Sikov’s appearance on the show, tune in to WPRI-TV 12 on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

 

About Women & Infants Hospital 

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiography; a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group and the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network.