Specialty / Expertise

Breast Cancer

Research Interests

Current Research Projects

Research Staff

Training

Dr. Specht received her MD from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Oncology at the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

Selected Publications:

Specht JM, Tam SL, Kurland BF, Gralow JR, Livingston RB, Linden HM, Ellis GK, Schubert EK, Dunwald LK, Mankoff DA. Serial 2-[18F] flouro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) to monitor treatment of bone-dominant metastatic breast cancer predicts time to progression (TTP). Breast Cancer Res Treat 2007 105(1):87-94.

Specht JM, Wang G, Do MT, Lam JS, Royal RE, Reeves ME, Rosenberg SA, and Hwu P. Dendritic cells retrovirally transduced with a model tumor antigen gene are therapeutically effective against established pulmonary metastases. J Experimental Med 1997 181:1213-1221.

Gee A, Specht JM, Kerk D, Moore JD, Drum AS, and Elston RA. Disseminated neoplastic cells in Mytilus trossulus: verification of host species origin by (16S-like) rRNA sequence comparison. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 1994 3:7-12.