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Andrea Richardson

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Andrea Richardson
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Other namesAndrea Lynn Richardson
Alma materUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular pathology, breast cancer research
InstitutionsHarvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
ThesisMolecular cloning and characterization of the t(2 ; 14) translocation associated with childhood CLL (1990)
Doctoral advisorPhilip W. Tucker

Andrea Lynn Richardson (born 1962) is an American pathologist and physician-scientist specialized in the molecular pathology of breast cancer. She is the Peter and Judy Kovler Professor in Breast Cancer Research and an associate professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Richardson runs a clinic at the Sibley Memorial Hospital.

Life

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Richardson was born in 1962.[1] She earned a Ph.D. and M.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1992.[2] Her dissertation was titled, Molecular cloning and characterization of the t(2 ; 14) translocation associated with childhood CLL.[1] Philip W. Tucker was her doctoral advisor.[1] She was an anatomic pathology staff member in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates from 1993 to 1997.[2] Richardson completed a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology with subspecialty training in breast cancer pathology and cytopathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1998.[2]

In 2000, joined the department of cancer biology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and the department of pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.[2] She worked in clinical practice in the breast pathology consultation service and in the translational research laboratory where she became an associate professor of pathology at the Harvard Medical School.[2] She specializes in the molecular pathology of breast cancer.[3] In 2015, Richardson joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as the director of pathology and breast pathology in its community practice division.[2] Her clinic is in the Sibley Memorial Hospital and she conducts translational breast cancer research at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.[2] Richardson is an associate professor of pathology and oncology and the Peter and Judy Kovler Professor in Breast Cancer Research.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Richardson, Andrea Lynn (1990). Molecular cloning and characterization of the t(2 ; 14) translocation associated with childhood CLL (Ph.D. thesis). University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. OCLC 26680128.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Andrea Lynn Richardson, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  3. ^ "Andrea Richardson, M.D., Ph.D." Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Pathology. Retrieved 2023-02-07.