JAMES REED BOSSCHER, M.D.
PERSONAL DATA:
Business Address: St. John’s Clinic - Women’s Oncology
Springfield, MO 65804
Home address: **** ***** ***twood Ave
Springfield, MO 65804
Marital Status: Wife: Ilene
Children: Benjamin, Elizabeth,
Christiana, Andrew, and Danielle
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Premedical: Hope College Holland, Michigan 1974 (Cum Laude)
Medical: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan 1979
Internship: Tripler Army Medical Center Honolulu, Hawaii 1979-1980
Residency: Tripler Army Medical Center Honolulu, Hawaii 1980-1983
Fellowship: Galloway Fellowship
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
May 1983 - June 1983
Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences
Washington. DC
July 1988 - June 1990
Gynecologic Oncology Research Fellow Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences Washington, DC
July 1990 - July 1992
Trained: Da Vinci Robotics, September 2008 (Currently 43 cases
completed)
HONORS: The Army Commendation Medal Department of the Army
July 1990 - May, 1993
Bronze Star
Operation Desert Shield/Storm
Department of the Army December 1991
Liberation of Kuwait Medal
Given by: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1991
Beta Beta Biology Honors Society
Alpha ETA Chapter 1972
MILITARY SERVICE: Chief
Division of Gynecologic Oncology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
and National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda, Maryland
July 1992 - July 1993
Chief
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
85th Army Evacuation Hospital
Desert Shield - Desert Storm
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
October 1990 - Apri1 1991
Assistant Chief
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center
LandStuhl, Germany
July 1986 -June 1988
Chief
Geologic Services
Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center
Landstuhl, Germany
July 1983 - June 1986 .
LICENSURE:
# 118005 Missouri
# 29419 Kentucky
# D37540 Maryland
# 01043853 Indiana
CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology -1985
MEMBERSHIPS: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Gynecologic Oncology Group - Principal Investigator
Greene County Medical Society
Kentucky Oncology Society
Missouri State Medical Association Louisville
Obstetrical and Gynecological Society
Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS: Cervical Cancer Advisory Work Group
Cabinet for Health Services
Commonwealth of Kentucky
1996 - 1999
Cancer Committee
Norton Hospital
1994 – February 1999
Cancer Committee
University of Louisville Hospital
1994 – February 1999
Resident Teaching Committee
Norton Hospital 1994 – 1997
Oncology Service Line Committee
St. John’s Health System
1999 – Present
Oncology Executive Guidance Team
St. John’s Health System
2000 – Present
Institutional Ethics Committee
St. John's Health System
1999 – Present
Institutional Review Committee
St. John's Health System
1999 – Present
Greene County Ethics Committee
2000 – Present
Greene County Preventive Medicine Committee
2000 – Present
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS:
Assistant Professor
Division of Gynecologic Oncology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Louisville School of Medicine
1993 – February 1999
HOSPITAL
APPOINTMENTS: Principal Investigator – Cancer Research of the
Ozarks – CCOP
1999 – Present
Medical Director
Lymphedema Services
St. John's Health System
1999 – Present
Administrative Council
St. John's Health System
2000 – Present
American College of Surgeons
Cancer Liaison Physician
St. John’s Health System
Commission on Cancer
2000 - 2003
Director
Medical Education Norton Hospital
1993 - 1997
PUBLICATIONS:
Shaw C, Bosscher J.R., Spencer R. Viable teen pregnancy in a patient with syphilis, pelvic
Tuberculosis and Potts disease. J Osteopathic Assoc. 1983;83:
Bosscher J.R., Barnhill D, O'Connor D, Doering D, Nash J, Park R. Osseous metaplasia in ovarian
papillary serous cystadenocarcinoma. Gynecol Oncol 1990, 39:228-31.
Chapman C. Bosscher.. J.R, Remmenga S. Barnhill D, Park R. A technique for managing terminally
ill ovarian cancer patients. Gynecological Oncology 1991; 41:88-91.
Barnhill D, Doering D, Remmenga S, Bosscher J.R., Nash J. Park R. Intestinal surgery performed in
gynecologic cancer patients. Gynecol Oncol 1991; 40:38-41.
Shaves M. Barnhill D, Bosscher J.R.. Remmenga S, Hahn M, Park R. Indwelling epidural catheter for
pain control in gynecologic cancer patients. Obstet Gynecol 1991; 77: 642- 644.
Remmenga S, Barnhill D, Nash J. Bosscher J.R., Teneriella M., Park R. Radical vulvectomy with
partial resection and temporary colostomy as primary therapy for selected patients with vulvar
carcinoma. Obstet Gynecol 1991; 77;577-579.
Parker M, Bosscher JR, Barnhill D. Park R.. Ovarian management during radical hysterectomy in the
premenopausal patient. Obstet GynecoI 1993; 82:187-190.
Bosscher J.R., Barnhill D, O'Connor D, Park R. Clinical stage IB endometrial adenocarcinoma with an
isolated small bowel metastasis. Gynecol Oncol 1994; 52:99-101
Bolli JA. Doering DL, Bosscher JR, Day TG~ Rao CV, Owens K, Kelly BA, Goldsmith J.; Squamous
cell carcinoma antigen: clinical utility in squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Gynecol Oncol
1994, 55:169-173.
Farley JH, Taylor RR, Bosscher JR. Late presentation of an a-Fetoprotein secreting isolated large
upper abdominal retroperitoneal Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor recurrence. Gynecol Oncol 1995; 56:319-
322.
Doering DL, Bosscher JR. Tobin GR. Pelvic reconstructive surgery. Gynecol Oncol, Current
Diagnosis and Treatment, 1996, 486-502
Lojun SL, Sigdestad CP, Connor AM. Spanos WJ, Bosscher JR. Murine intestinal crypt survival after
combined taxol plus radiation exposure. Gynecol Oncol 63: 180-183, 1996.
Katsanis WA, Doering DL, Bosscher JR, O'Connor DM. Vulvar eccrine porocarcinoma. Gynecol
Oncol, Vol 62, No.3, 396-399, September 1996.
Bosscher, JR, Ovarian Cancer. St. John’s Regional Health Center 1999 Cancer Program Annual
Report. (Lead
Article)
Bosscher, JR, Gercel-Taylor C, Watkins CS, Taylor DD. Anti-Cathepsin D Antibodies in Endometrial
Cancer
Patients: Gynecol Oncol 1: 138 – 143 2001.
ABSTRACTS:
Bosscher JR, Dusseau J. Circadian rhythms of FSH/LH in non-migratory birds. The
Regional Zoological Meeting at the University of Michigan Science Fair, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, March, 1973.
Bosscher JR, Sweet B. Miyazawa K. Role of the ECC in the evaluation of the abnormal
pap smear. The Regional Armed Forces District of the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, Phoenix, Arizona, October, 1981.
Bosscher JR, Barnhill D., O'Connor D, Park R. Clinical stage IB endometrial
adenocarcinoma with an isolated small bowel metastasis. The Regional Armed Forces
District of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Cincinnati, October, 1991.
Bolli J. Bosscher JR., Doering DL. Day TG, Owens KJ, Kelly BA. Squamous cell
carcinoma antigen; clinical utility in squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Felix Rutledge Society, Laguna Beach, California. June 2-5.
1993.
Bosscher JR, Taylor C, Taylor D, Doering DL, Lojun S; Effect of retinoic acid on the
efficacy of cisplatin and taxol on ovarian cancer cell lines. Twenty-Sixth Annua1 Meeting of the
Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, San Francisco, California, February 19-22, 1995.
Katsanis WA, Tao YX, Nagamani M, Doering D, Bosscher JR, Rao CV. Expression of luteinizing
hormone (LH) human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) receptors in ovarian stroma of postmenopausal
women. Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, Davis,
California, July 10-12, 1995.
Lojun SL. Sigdestad CP, Connor AM, Spanos WJ Jr, Bosscher J.R. Normal tissue response to
combined taxol and radiation Tenth International Congress of Radiation Research, Wurzburg,
Germany, August 17, 1995 - September 3, 1995.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Bosscher JR, O'Connor DM. Fine-needle aspiration of Gynecologic Malignancies Operative
Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery, Vol. I, No.1 (July) pp 54-63,1996.
Doering DL, Bosscher J.R.; Trophoblastic Disease. Decision Making in Oncology.
Evidence-based Management) pp 289-294, Churchill-Livingstone Inc., New York, 1997.
Doering D.L., Bosscher J.R. Obralic N. Vaginal Cancer. Decision Making in Oncology,
Evidence-based Management, pp 295-297, Churchill-Livingstone, Inc., New York, 1997.
Bosscher J.R., Doering DL, Ovarian Cancer. Decision Making in Oncology, Evidence-based
Management, 267-275, Churchill-Livingstone, lnc., New York. 1997.
Tobin GR, Bosscher JR, Doering DL. The Use of the Rectus Abdominis Flap in Vaginal
Reconstruction. In: Ehrlich RM, Alter GJ. eds, Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery of the External
Genitalia. Orlando, Florida: W.B, Saunders Company. (In Press).
PRESENTATIONS:
"Case Presentations." Tumor Conference, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville,
Kentucky. September 13, 1995.
"Ovarian Cancer," Outreach Lecture Series. Daviess County Hospital, Owensboro, Kentucky,
January 18, 1996.
“Cervical Cancer Update," Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Alliant Medical Center,
Louisville, Kentucky, June 11, 1996.
Bone Marrow Drive, Bardstown, Kentucky, "Bone Marrow Donations" - Guest Speaker, September
14, 1996.
National Bone Marrow Awareness, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, Kentucky,
September 1996. "Bone Marrow Awareness."
Symposium on Evidence-Based Practice of Oncology, University of Louisville School of Medicine,
Louisville, Kentucky, February 1997. "Evidence-Based Management of Ovarian Cancer."
Primary Care Issues in Women's Health, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1997, "Management of ASCUS and Abnormal
Genital Cytology."
"Cancer Ethics," Grand Rounds, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Louisville, Kentucky, January 1998.
“ Cancer Ethics” and “ Gyn Cancer” presented at the 1998 Oncology Nursing Review Course, Alliant
Health System, Louisville, Kentucky, August 14, 1998.
“An Overview of Gynecologic Oncology” presented at the Many Faces of Oncology Care Seminar,
St. John’s Regional Health Center, Springfield, Missouri, March 22, 2000.
“ Postmenopausal Bleeeding” presented at the St. John’s Regional Health Center Lunch and Learn
Lecture Series, Springfield, Missouri, December 1, 2000.
“Amifostine for Reversal of Paclitaxel – Induced Peripheral Neuropathy, 13th Annual Community
Clinical Oncology Program meeting - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, March 9, 2002.
“ Death and Dying Issues of a Cancer Patient” Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Springfield,
Missouri, March 2001.
“Review of Lymphadema Issues with Gyn Oncology Patients.” Lymphadema Course, Cox North
Hospital, Springfield, Missouri - 2002.
“Sexually Transmitted Diseases” Pregnancy Crisis Center, Springfield, Missouri, 2002.
“Sexually Transmitted Diseases” CBC, Springfield, Missouri 2002.
“The Sexual Revolution and STD’s” AGTS, Springfield, Missouri, 2002, 2003.
“Q&A for GYN Support Group of Springfield” Public Library, Springfield, Missouri, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
“GYN cancers Q&A” St. Johns, Springfield, Missouri, 2008
“Introduction of Da Vinci to the Public” St. Johns, Springfield, Missouri 2009
“HPV and Cervical Cancer interview” Local Fox News, Springfield, Missouri 2009
COMMUNITY OUTREACH:
NEW HOPE: GYN Oncology Support Group for South West Missouri, Founding Member on Board of
Directors, 2000-present.
NEW HOPE Charity Fashion Show, 2003-Present.
GRANTS:
The Effect of Folic Acid on Invitro Cervical Squamous Neoplastic Cell Line. Alliant Health System,
#94.03, $43, 353.
Douglas D. Taylor, Ph.D., Cicek Ciercel-Tay!or. Ph,D., David L. Doering, M.D., James R. Bosscher,
M.D., and Marcello Pietrantoni, M.D. Regulation of HPV Oncogene Expression by Folic Acid in
Cultured Human Cervical Cancer Cells. Alliant Community Trust Fund, $49.700.
RESEARCH:
M.D. Anderson – 2003 – 0789
NCI Research Protocol
Phase II Trial of Subcutaneous Amifostine (Ethyol) for Reversal of Persistent Paclitaxel Induced
Peripheral Neuropathy
Procrit Phase IV Study sponsored by Ortho Biotech. 1996 - 1997, 1998.