Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH, Member
BCRF Scientific Advisory Committee
Judy Garber is Director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at the Gillette Center for Women's Cancers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She is also an attending physician at Dana-Farber's Breast Evaluation Center, an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Garber's research is focused on genetic susceptibility to breast, ovarian and other cancers, and the development of novel medical strategies to prevent cancer. She uses the tools of cancer epidemiology and biostatistics, genetics and molecular biology to identify women at high risk for breast cancer.
Dr. Garber has been at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 1988 when she joined the faculty after completing a fellowship in Medical Oncology at DFCI and fellowships in Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the National Cancer Institute and DFCI.
A graduate of the University of Virginia, Dr. Garber earned her medical degree and her master's degree in public health from Yale University School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Brockton-West Roxbury Veteran's Administration Medical Center.
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