Rebecca Stone has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Judith Ann Lippard Memorial Lectureship. She will present her lecture, The Science Fiction of Ovarian Cancer: What We Got Wrong--and Why It Matters, to the MIT and Koch Institute communities in the Luria Auditorium (76-156) on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Dr. Stone is associate professor and director of gynecologic oncology for Johns Hopkins. She holds a joint appointment in the Armstrong Institute as the lead for its surgical pathways/enhanced recovery after surgery program - an innovative, multidisciplinary program that standardizes perioperative care to improve quality and cost for thousands of patients annually. Dr. Stone also serves as co-director of the Fertility Preservation Center, pioneering novel surgical interventions to help people fulfill their goals of parenthood in the face of cancer. Accordingly, her research portfolio spans clinical, quality improvement, and basic science investigation.  She has been recognized for her dedication to patient care and teaching over the years, including being named Physician of the Year at Johns Hopkins in 2023 and being inducted into the School of Medicine Distinguished Teaching Society in 2022. Besides continuing to care for many patients and their families - this is her first love - she is devoted to ensuring that ovarian cancer prevention becomes a standard of care that all know about and can choose. Dr. Stone champions this mission in the U.S. with support from the Break Through Cancer and Gray Foundations and helps lead an international taskforce to decrease the global burden of ovarian cancer through prevention.