Laura Fejerman

Dr. Fejerman is the Placer Breast Cancer Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine at the University of California Davis. She is the Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement and the Director of the Women’s Cancer Care and Research Program (WeCARE) at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. She completed her undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology and MSc in Human Biology at the University of Oxford, England. Dr. Fejerman’s research focuses on the discovery of genetic and non-genetic factors that contribute to breast cancer risk and prognosis. She built the Peruvian Genetics/Genomics of Breast Cancer (PEGEN-BC) Study collaborating with the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas, Lima, Peru, which includes ~3,000 women with breast cancer. She also leads the Latin America Genetics and Genomics of Breast Cancer Consortium (LAGENO-BC) which brings together researchers from the U.S. and Latin American countries to study the genetics of breast cancer in individuals of Latin American heritage. Dr. Fejerman is passionate about cancer prevention and control and dedicates part of her time to the development and implementation of cancer education and navigation programs tailored to underserved and under resourced communities in California.