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Dr. Blum is the Director of the Hereditary Cancer Risk Program and Research Site Leader at the Baylor-Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. She serves as Vice Chair for the Baylor Health Care System Institutional Review Board and also as a member of the Breast Cancer Committee for US Oncology Research. In addition, Dr. Blum has a private practice in breast medical oncology. Dr. Blum is a member of the PROSE (Prevention and Observation of Surgical Endpoints) Study Group, a consortium of investigators focused on research issues in genetic counselling for women at high risk for inherited forms of breast and other cancers. Additionally, her research has led to the development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of breast cancer.
A Fellow in the American College of Physicians, Dr. Blum is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Society of Human Genetics. She served on the ASCO Cancer Education Committee from 1998-2001 and is a member of the ASCO Career Development Committee (2006-2009). Dr. Blum serves on the editorial boards of Clinical Breast Cancer and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceeding. She is a reviewer for numerous journals including Cancer, Cancer Investigation, Clinical Breast Cancer, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. She has published widely in the area of breast cancer therapeutics with a focus on new chemotherapeutic agents and on the clinical and psychological implications of genetic testing for breast cancer.
Dr. Blum earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and her doctorate degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She completed an internship in medicine at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, then internal medicine residency and fellowship in Hematology-Oncology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. From 1989 to 1992 she received the American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Career Development Award and was awarded the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Distinguished Young Researcher Award in 1990 | 