Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH

Ann Partridge, MD, MPH is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and vice chair of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she also serves as director of the Adult Survivorship Program and leads the Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer. As a medical oncologist and clinical researcher, she has sought to improve the care and outcomes of patients with cancer by conducting research, and by developing innovative clinical programming. Dr. Partridge’s most substantial research contributions focus on the clinical epidemiology of breast cancer in young women. She established and serves as PI for the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Study (YWS), a multi-institutional cohort of young women with breast cancer which enrolled over 1300 women age 40 and younger at diagnosis. Dr. Partridge and her team have characterized a range of issues of young breast cancer survivors, including the impact of treatment on fertility, adherence with hormonal therapy, psychological adaptation to the diagnosis, including impact of treatment on sexual functioning, and the factors that play an important role in patient decision-making. More recently, she has collaborated to develop and study interventions to improve outcomes in young-adult cancer survivors, and worked with basic investigators to identify molecular differences in tumors found in young patients, and potential biomarkers of cancer risk and long-term effects. Dr. Partridge serves in leadership roles nationally and internationally. She is co-chair of the Breast Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, was chair of the scientific program committee for the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, co-chairs the biennial ESMO-ESO-sponsored Breast Cancer in Young Women Conference and served as chair of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women from 2010–17. She has received prior awards and grants including a Champions of Change award from the White House, an ASCO Improving Cancer Care Grant, the CDC Carol Friedman Award, the Edward J. Benz Jr. Award for Advancing the Careers of Women Faculty, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer, and the Ellen L. Stovall Award in Cancer Survivorship from ASCO, and the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School.