MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Breast Pathology
UNC-Chapel Hill
Breast Cancer
Area of Interest
Many of my projects and publications focus on benign breast disease (BBD) detected by breast cancer screening and diagnosed in core needle biopsy specimens.
As an active co-investigator in tissue-based translational breast cancer research, I regularly review and annotate glass slides and whole slide images for grants and clinical trials.
I am the Core C Director (Tissue Procurement) for the UNC Breast SPORE. I serve as the Study Pathologist for the Carolinas Breast Cancer Study (CBCS), a large population-based molecular epidemiology project exploring differences in breast cancer outcomes for Black women in North Carolina (Project 1 in the Breast SPORE). I also serve as the Faculty Advisor for the Tissue Procurement Facility (TPF), a Cancer Center core facility dedicated to the acquisition of fresh, frozen, and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue for research.
Recent projects include annotation of whole-slide images for the construction of a virtual breast cancer tissue microarray (TMA) and collaborations using machine learning algorithms to predict breast cancer biology and prognosis.
