Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, a world-renowned investigator in the areas of medical decision-making, quality of care and cancer prevention and outcomes, is Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) physician-in-chief of the MGH Department of Medicine.
Dr. Armstrong, who served as chief of the Division of General Medicine and professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, started this position April 15. "
She is a graduate of Yale University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 as a physician-scientist fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She joined the faculty at Penn in 1998 and was appointed chief in 2008. She also serves as associate director of the Abramson Cancer Center and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at Penn.
Dr. Armstrong led the National Cancer Institute-funded Penn Center for Innovation in Personalized Breast Cancer Screening, which is dedicated to studying emerging methods of breast cancer detection. Throughout her career, she has received a number of awards and honors including the FOCUS Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 2011. She also is the author or co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and has written numerous chapters, editorials and abstracts.