Is there a way to reduce your chances of getting breast cancer? Are there signs to look for? How can you be most supportive?

Join us during Breast Cancer Awareness Month for an exclusive talk for Jefferson, Textile, and Philadelphia University alumni with alumna and Jefferson – New Jersey oncologist Ana Maria Lopez, MD ’88, MPH, MACP. Dr. Lopez specializes in women’s cancers, integrative oncology, and cancer prevention. She will share some highlights on screenings, preventative care, and treatment for breast cancer, a disease that affects one out of eight women and is the most common cancer in African American women.

Awareness is power and it comes in pink!
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Dr. Ana Maria Lopez is a board-certified medical oncologist who specializes in women’s cancers, integrative oncology, and cancer prevention.

Dr. Lopez earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College and her Doctor of Medicine degree from Thomas Jefferson University. She completed her Internal Medicine residency, earned her Master of Public Health (Health Policy and Administration), served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, and completed a General Medicine and a Hematology and Oncology fellowship at the University of Arizona. Dr. Lopez was awarded a Cancer Prevention and Etiology Fellowship (T32, NCI) to study immune factors in skin cancer prevention at the University of Arizona. Dr. Lopez also completed her fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona.

As the founding Medical Director (1996-2015) of the Arizona Telemedicine Program, Dr. Lopez is a telemedicine pioneer leading this academic statewide telemedicine practice to more than 1,000,000 teleconsultations. Dr. Lopez served as the first Associate Vice President for Health Equity and Inclusion (2015-2018) at University of Utah Health with a counterpart role at Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Dr. Lopez is a health services researcher who has been continuously extramurally funded in since her fellowship. Her research focuses on health equity through novel treatment, prevention, and community-based participatory research approaches, evaluates novel cancer treatment strategies, and assesses integrative approaches to care.

Dr. Lopez has served on the Board of the National Hispanic Medical Association, is Past Chair of the Health Equity Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and is President Emeritus of the American College of Physicians, the largest medical specialty society in the United States. Dr. Lopez currently serves on the Commission on Cancer and on the Breast Committee for ECOG-ACRIN.

Dr. Lopez has recognized expertise in women’s cancers, cancer prevention, integrative medicine, and telemedicine. She has more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and multiple book chapters.

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