Laura Fejerman

Dr. Fejerman is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine at the University of California Davis. She is the Director of the Women’s Cancer Care and Research Program (WeCaRe), Co-Director of the Latinos United for Cancer Health Advancement (LUCHA) initiative, and Assistant Director of Education, Training, and Career Development at the UC Davis (UCD) Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC). She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology and MSc in Human Biology at the University of Oxford, England. She completed her undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Fejerman’s research focuses on discovering genetic and non-genetic factors contributing to breast cancer risk and prognosis in Latina women. She built the Peruvian Genetics/Genomics of Breast Cancer (PEGEN-BC) Study collaborating with the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas, Lima, Peru, which includes ~2,000 women with breast cancer. She also leads the Latin America Genetics and Genomics of Breast Cancer Consortium (LAGENO-BC), which brings together researchers from the U.S. and Latin American countries to study the genetics of breast cancer in Latina women. Dr. Fejerman’s efforts also comprise the development of cancer education and navigation programs for Spanish-speaking Latinas.