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Kathryn Terry, ScD

Kathryn Terry, ScD

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology | Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Epidemiology | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Scientific Director | Boston Center for Endometriosis

Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Terry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.  She also served as the Associate Scientific Director of the Boston Center for Endometriosis.  Dr. Terry trained as an epidemiologist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and has more than two decades of research experience in cancer and gynecologic diseases, with a focus on endometriosis and ovarian cancer. Dr. Terry has extensive experience leveraging large population-based studies and international consortia to identify modifiable risk factors (e.g. breastfeeding and ovarian cancer), provide insight into the etiology of the disease (e.g. immune dysregulation in endometriosis), identify women at high risk of the disease (e.g. personalized CA125 cutpoints for ovarian cancer), and discover novel screening biomarkers or improve the performance of existing biomarkers. Her ongoing research includes evaluation of changing contraception patterns in relation to ovarian cancer risk, how reproductive exposures and conditions impact the tumor microenvironment, early detection biomarker research in ovarian cancer using prospective cohorts, and identification of local and systemic proteomic profiles associated with endometriosis-associated pelvic pain.  Dr. Terry has co-authored over 200 publications, taught more than ten years at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and has lengthy track record of continuous federal funding and mentorship.

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