Setsuko K Chambers
- Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Professor, Medicine
- Professor, Cancer Biology - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Awards
- MVP eCard Recognition
- BUMC-T Coders, Fall 2025
- Top Doctors, annually since 2006
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Summer 2025
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Summer 2024
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Summer 2023
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Summer 2022
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Summer 2021
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Spring 2017
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Spring 2016
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Spring 2015
- Best Doctors in America, annually since 1998
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2025
- Spring 2024
- Spring 2023
- Spring 2022
- Spring 2021
- Spring 2017
- Spring 2016
- Spring 2015
- Considered "Esteemed Faculty" by UA Leadership
- Spring 2025
- Spring 2024
- Spring 2023
- Spring 2022
- Spring 2021
- Spring 2020
- Spring 2019
- Spring 2018
- Spring 2017
- Spring 2016
- Exceptional Women in Medicine, annually since 2019
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2025
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2024
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2023
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2022
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2021
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2020
- Castle Connelly, Spring 2019
- UAHS Endowed Faculty Luncheon w/ Invited Speaker
- Spring 2024
- Most Honored Doctors Top 1% for 2022
- The American Registry, Fall 2022
- University of Arizona Cancer Center Awards & Publications
- Fall 2021
- Fall 2020
- 2020 Yale Obstetrical and Gynecological Society Alum Honoree and Speaker
- Yale University, Summer 2021
- Exceptional Women in Medicine Award 2020
- Tucson Lifestyle Magazine, Spring 2021
- Principal Investigator
- University of Arizona Cancer Center, Spring 2020
- "Turning Bad Genes Into Good"
- Innovations in Women's Health vol 16, 2018, Winter 2018
- Magazine article, HemOnc Today
- HemOnc Today, Spring 2016
- Member, National Acadamy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine)
- Institute of Medicine, Fall 2009
- Bobbi Olson Endowed Chair
- Spring 2005
Licensure & Certification
- Board Certified, Gyncologic Oncology, American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (1988)
- Board Certified, Obstetrics & Gynecology, American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (1987)
Interests
Research
BASIC RESEARCH INTERESTS: Defining RNA binding proteins, miRNAs, RNA epigenetics, and convergent transcription in regulation of CSF-1/CSF-1R expression. Androgens and neoplastic transformation of normal ovarian/tubal epithelium.TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Circulating and tissue miRNA profiling and pathway identification in women at high risk for ovarian cancerCLINICAL RESEARCH: I am the team leader for gynecologic oncology trials at the Cancer Center and have designed/implemented clinical trials on several aspects within the cancer spectrum. We actively accrue to therapeutic trials as well as those that focus on early detection or biomarker identification. I am active in cooperative group (NRG, SWOG, ECOG/ACRIN), industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated trials. I am co-PI of our primary NRG site and serve as a NRG Phase 1 committee member. I was site-PI of an ETCTN phase 1 trial via EDDOP. I also serve as a member of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Program at the Cancer Center.
Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
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