Executive Leadership & Expert Bios

Lisa Richardson, MD, MPH

Associate Director for Science, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, NCCDPHP

Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH, is the Associate Director for Science in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC). Her research focuses on access to cancer care, systems of care, health-related quality of life during cancer treatment, health disparities and racial discrimination, and breast cancer treatment patterns of care.

Dr. Richardson oversees the research and scientific content of the Division's programs and products. The Division administers the only organized screening program for low income uninsured women in the United States, the National Breast and Cervical Cancer and Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). The Division also administers the National Program of Cancer Registries. This program, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance and Epidemiology and End Results registries, covers 98 percent of the U.S. population for cancer incidence.

Dr. Richardson has held several positions at CDC including most recently the Team Lead for the Scientific Support and Clinical Translation Team within the Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch. She also served as the Medical Director for the NBCCEDP from 1997-1998. Prior to returning to CDC in 2004, she was a faculty member at the University of Florida in Medical Oncology.

Dr. Richardson attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her undergraduate studies as well as medical school. She was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society in 1998. She completed her internal medicine residency and Hematology/Medical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Florida in 1995. She received her MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan while she completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program from 1995-1997. She has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles.

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