Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
The Erin Gillespie Lab
Research

Welcome to the research team webpage of Dr. Erin Gillespie, Assistant Attending Radiation Oncologist specializing in breast cancer and metastatic disease, and an Attending Member of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes. Our projects involve implementation science, quality and safety, health services, healthcare policy, and educational research.
Our focus is to improve outcomes in oncology by 1) understanding variations in patterns of care (health services), 2) understanding the role of the physician and drivers of decision making (behavioral economics), and 3) improving care delivery models to optimize access to high-quality, high-value care (implementation science).
More specifically, our projects involve:
- Improving quality in radiation treatment planning through point-of-care decision support, simulation training and feedback, artificial intelligence, and telemedicine.
- Identifying variations in patterns of care and testing novel implementation strategies to accelerate uptake of evidence-based practice.
- Developing and evaluating tools for real-world assessment of radiation quality.
- Clinical research aimed towards developing primary evidence to guide practice.
Our group created eContour which is a free user-friendly interactive web-based contouring atlas for radiation treatment planning (eContour.org). The eContour platform allows the user to view contours for a variety of example cancer cases in an interactive 3-dimensional image-based format.
Featured News
Publications
Zhang Y, Onochie I, Hipp E, Washington C, Cahlon O, Gomez D, Gillespie EF. “Evaluating the Clinical Impact of Integrating a Contouring Radiation Anatomist into Routine Treatment Planning: A Quality Improvement Study.” Advances Rad Onc (in press).
People

Erin Gillespie, MD
Assistant Attending, MSK Department of Radiation Oncology; Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California San Diego; Visiting Scholar, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I)
- MD, University of Michigan Medical School
- BS, Yale College
- [email protected]
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Members
Research Project Associate
Radiation Oncology Resident Physician
MSK Research Fellow
Software Developer
Clinical Research Coordinator
Resident Research Scholar
Anatomy Contourist
Radiation Oncology Resident Physician
MSK Research Fellow
MSK Medical Student Research Fellow
Lab Affiliations
Achievements
- National Cancer Institute K08 Career Development Award (2020-2025)
- National Cancer Care Network (NCCN) Pfizer Ending Metastatic Breast Cancer for Everyone (EMBRACE) (2020-2023)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) R18, Simulation to Improve Patient Safety (2019-2024)
- Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) Innovation in Education at the Point-of-Care (2019-2023)
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award (2017-2020)
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
Erin Gillespie discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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eContour
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