The Program for Women in Internal Medicine will host Katrina A. Armstrong, MD, MSCE, for the annual Clipp-Speers Visiting Professor Medicine Grand Rounds presentation on Fri., May 5, at 8 a.m.
Dr. Armstrong is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Armstrong will present "Coming to Peace with Uncertainty: Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention in 2017."
Armstrong is an internationally recognized investigator in medical decision making, quality of care, and cancer prevention and outcomes, an award winning teacher, and a practicing primary care physician. She has served on multiple advisory panels for academic and federal organizations and has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Institute of Medicine. Prior to coming to Mass General, she was the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director of the Abramson Cancer Center and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Armstrong's work focuses at the interface of genomics, cancer and social policy. Her research interests include breast cancer risk and cancer prevention through personalized approaches, as well as innovation in care delivery and comprehensive primary care. She has illuminated factors influencing the translation of advances in genomics into improvements in cancer control and identified novel mechanisms underlying cancer disparities. Using individualized survival curves drawn from a Markov model, she has developed a novel personalized breast cancer screening and communications strategy to improve decision outcomes for high risk women. Armstrong has extended her research to examine the effect of communication approaches on cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship behaviors more broadly.
A graduate of Yale University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Armstrong completed her internship, residency and chief residency in medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She joined the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 as a physician scientist fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She joined the faculty at Penn in 1998 and was appointed chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in December 2008.
Medicine Grand Rounds is held at 8 a.m. in Duke North Room 2002.