Kathleen R. Cho is an American gynecological surgical pathologist. She is a Professor of Pathology and Internal Medicine at Michigan Medicine.

Early life and education

Cho was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and grew up in

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. Cho received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1980 and her medical degree from

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a graduate medical school of Vanderbilt University located in Nashville, Tennessee. Located in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the southeastern side of the Vanderbilt University campus, the S ...

in 1984. Following this, she completed her Anatomic Pathology

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at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as Chief Resident in her final year. During her residency, she simultaneously served as a Clinical Fellow in the Johns Hopkins Department of Pathology and Research Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center.

Career

Following her residency, Cho became an Instructor in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University before being appointed to the rank of assistant professor in the Departments of Pathology, Oncology, and Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1991. She remained with Johns Hopkins until 1998 when she accepted an

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position at the University of Michigan. As a result of her research in molecular biology, she was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2000. Following her promotion to Full professor with tenure in 2002, Cho's laboratory developed a mouse model to research ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma. From 2013 to 2014, Cho served as Interim Chair of the University of Michigan's Department of Pathology. Following this, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine for both her diagnostic expertise and laboratory research in gynecological cancer. In 2017, her research team used genetically modified mice to mimic tumors that closely resembled human high-grade serous carcinomas. In January 2019, Cho received a five-year

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from the National Institutes of Health to continue her work in ovarian cancer research.

Personal life

Cho and her husband,

Eric Fearon Eric Reese Fearon is an American oncologist. He is the Emanuel N. Maisel Professor of Oncology at the University of Michigan and director of the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Early life and education Fearon was born to parents Marga ...

, have two daughters together. In her free time, she enjoys watching basketball and cooking.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cho, Kathleen R. Living people People from Los Alamos, New Mexico Johns Hopkins University faculty University of Michigan faculty Yale University alumni Vanderbilt University School of Medicine alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine American pathologists Year of birth missing (living people)