We are pleased to welcome Rachel Factor, MD MS to Duke! Dr. Factor is coming to us from the University of Utah, where she was the director of breast pathology, and co-director of the cytology fellowship. Dr. Factor is a graduate of Princeton University, and obtained her MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine along with a Masters from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. After an internal medicine internship at NYU Langone Medical Center, she did her anatomic pathology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with fellowships in both anatomic pathology and cytopathology, also at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2009 she took a position with the University of Utah, where she has had a strong record of academic accomplishment. Much of her work has concentrated in the field of biomarkers for breast cancer, particularly high-risk variants, and their correlation with histologic subtypes, but she also has published a considerable number of papers in the areas of cytopathology and statistical analysis of pathology data, particularly with respect to factors introducing bias in interpretation. Dr. Factor will be joining us as an Associate Professor, and her focus will be primarily in breast pathology and cytopathology. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Factor to the Duke Department of Pathology!
Rex Bentley, MD
Director, Division of Surgical Pathology