Professional Bio
Andreana N. Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), research director and co-director of the research immersion course at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, director of the VICC VOICES program, and a VICC research program faculty fellow.
Dr. Holowatyj's laboratory team focuses on improving clinical care and outcomes for patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancers. Her translational oncology research program spans from cells to society - using a unique approach with both patient studies and laboratory-based projects - to investigate cancer biology/etiology and genetics, tumor biology and reproductive health, and other unique clinical challenges facing young adults after an early-onset cancer diagnosis.
Dr. Holowatyj serves on the expert panel for the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging manual: Ninth Edition on Cancers of the Appendix and on the Peritoneal Surface Malignancies (PSM) consortium. She was named the inaugural chair for the scientific advisory board for the Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (ACPMP) research foundation and serves on the FightCRC Early-Age Onset Colorectal Cancer workgroup, as well as the board of directors for the VICC Young Adults with Cancer program.
Dr. Holowatyj established, and is the principal investigator (PI) of, the Preserving Fertility After Colorectal Cancer (PREFACE) study, a clinical study that focuses on the essential need to treat the whole patient for whom multiple life domains are impacted after a colorectal cancer diagnosis before the age of 50. She also created, and is PI of, the Genetics of Appendix Cancer (GAP) study which aims to discover how changes in our genes may contribute to appendix cancer development.
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Education
PhD - Medicine/Cancer Biology - Wayne State University, 2017
MSCI - University of Utah, 2018
Fellowship - Genomic Medicine - Huntsman Cancer Institute, 2019
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307