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Andrea L. Richardson

Andrea L. Richardson, MD, PhD

Pathology

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Female

About Andrea L. Richardson

Professional Titles

  • The Peter and Judy Kovler Professor in Breast Cancer Research in the Department of Pathology

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Pathology

Background

Dr. Andrea Richardson received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Texas Southwestern Medical and Graduate Schools in Dallas, TX in 1992. She completed her residency training in Anatomic Pathology with subspecialty training in breast pathology and cytopathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

From 1997 to 1993, she was on anatomic pathology staff in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. 

In 2000, she returned to the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  There, she maintained an active clinical practice on the BWH breast pathology consultation service and a translational research laboratory and rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Her research interests have focused on molecular pathology of breast cancer and development of predictive biomarkers of treatment response.

In 2015, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as Director of Pathology, Community Practice Division and Director of Breast Pathology, Community Practice Division. 

Her clinical practice is based at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington DC.  She will also continue her translational breast cancer research with collaborators at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Oncology

Selected Publications

  • Birkbak NJ, Wang, ZC, Kim J-Y, Eklund AC, Li Q, Tian R, Bowman-Colin C, Li Y, Greene-Colozzi A, Iglehart JD, Tung N, Ryan PD, Garber JE, Silver DP, Szallasi Z, Richardson AL. Telomeric allelic imbalance indicates defective DNA repair and sensitivity to DNA damaging agents. Cancer Discovery, April 2012; 2(4): 366-375.  doi:10.1158/2159-8290

  • Li Y, Zhang Q, Tian R, Wang Q, Zhao JJ, Iglehart JD, Wang ZC, Richardson AL. Lysosomal transmembrane protein LAPTM4B promotes autophagy and tolerance to metabolic stress in cancer cells.  Cancer Res. 2011;71 7481-7489

  • Li Y, Zou L, Li Q, Haibe-Kains B, Tian R, Li Y, Desmedt C, Sotiriou C, Szallasi Z, Iglehart JD, Richardson AL*, Wang ZC*.  Amplification of LAPTM4B and YWHAZ contributes to chemotherapy resistance and recurrence of breast cancer.  Nat Med. 2010 Feb;16(2):214-8. Epub 2010 Jan 24.

  • Lu X, Lu, X, Wang ZC, Iglehart JD, Zhang X, Richardson AL.  Predicting Features of Breast Cancer with Gene Expression Patterns.  Breast Cancer Res Treat 2008 Mar;108(2):191-201.

  • Matros E, Wang ZC, Lodeiro G, Miron A, Iglehart JD, Richardson AL. BRCA1 promoter methylation in sporadic breast tumors: relationship to gene expression profiles. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2005;91(2):179-86.

  • Richardson AL, Wang ZC, De Nicolo A, Lu X, Brown M, Miron A, Liao X, Iglehart JD, Livingston DM, Ganesan S. X chromosomal abnormalities in basal-like human breast cancer. Cancer Cell. 2006;9(2):121-32.

  • Silver DP*, Richardson AL*, Eklund AC, Wang ZC, Szallasi Z, Li Q, Juul N, Leong C-O, Calogrias D, Buraimoh A, Fatima A, Gelman RS, Ryan PD, Tung NM, De Nicolo A, Ganesan S, Miron A, Colin C, Sgroi DC, Ellisen LW, Winer EP, Garber JE.  Efficacy of neoadjuvant cisplatin in triple-negative breast cancer.  J Clin Oncol. 2010 Mar 1;28(7):1145-53. Epub 2010 Jan 25.

  • Telli ML, Timms K, Reid J, Hennessy B, Mills G, Jensen KC, Szallasi Z, Barry WT, Winer EP, Tung NM, Isakoff SJ, Ryan P, Greene-Colozzi A, Gutin A, Sangale Z, Iliev D, Neff C, Abkevich V, Jones J, Lanchbury JS, Hartman A-R, Garber JE, Ford JM, Silver DP, Richardson AL.  Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) score predicts response to platinum-containing neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with triple negative breast cancer.  Clin. Cancer Res. 2016 (in press).

  • Tung N, Miron A, Schnitt SJ, Gautam S, Fetten K, Kaplan J, Yassin Y, Buraimoh A, Kim J-Y, Szasz AM, Tian R, Wang ZC, Collins LC, Brock JE, Krag K, Legare RD, Sgroi D, Ryan PD, Silver DP, Garber JE, Richardson AL. Prevalence and Predictors of Loss of wild type BRCA1 in Estrogen Receptor Positive and Negative BRCA1-associated Breast Cancers.   Breast Cancer Res. 2010 12:R95 (16 November 2010)

  • Wang ZC, Lin M, Wei LJ, Li C, Miron A, Lodeiro G, Harris L, Ramaswamy S, Tanenbaum DM, Meyerson M, Iglehart JD, Richardson A. Loss of heterozygosity and its correlation with expression profiles in subclasses of invasive breast cancers. Cancer Res. 2004;64(1):64-71.

Locations

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
    • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
      • 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224
      • Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center
        • 5755 Cedar Lane, Columbia, MD 21044
        • Sibley Memorial Hospital
          • 5255 Loughboro Road Northwest, Washington, DC 20016

          Expertise

          Education

          Brigham and Women's Hospital

          Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1998

          University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas

          Graduate School, PhD, 1992

          University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas

          Medical Education, MD, 1992

          Board Certifications

          Cytopathology

          American Board of Pathology, 1998

          Anatomic Pathology

          American Board of Pathology, 1997

          Insurance

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          • Aetna
          • CareFirst
          • Cigna
          • First Health
          • Geisinger Health Plan
          • HealthSmart/Accel
          • Humana
          • Johns Hopkins Health Plans
          • MultiPlan
          • Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
          • Point Comfort Underwriters
          • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
          • UnitedHealthcare
          • Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)