Kathleen Helen Burns MD PhD

Summary

• Kathleen Burns, M.D., Ph.D., joined Dana-Farber in 2020 as Chair of the Department of Pathology. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Baylor College of Medicine, and was recruited to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for clinical pathology residency and hematopathology fellowship. Thereafter, she joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins, progressed through their academic ranks to Professor, and served as the pathology department's Deputy Director (Vice Chair) for Research and Director of the institution's Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP). Dr. Burns's research focuses on high copy number genomic repeats and transposable elements, their contributions to human disease, and ways to leverage our understanding of their biology to diagnose and treat cancers.
  
  Her honors include the Richard Starr Ross Physician Scientist Award from Johns Hopkins University, a Career Award for Medical Scientists from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Interurban Clinical Club, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She has been invited to speak at at >130 events in 14 countries and given named lectures, including as the Scriver Family Visiting Professor at McGill University, the Daria Haust Lecturer at Queen’s University, the Thomas M. Wheeler Lecturer at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Peacock Memorial Lecturer at University of Texas Southwestern as well as Keynote addresses at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Asia
  Transposable Element meetings and the Gordon Research Conference on Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics.