Andrea Richardson

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]