Katie Henderson

Katherine D. Henderson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Population Sciences, Division of Cancer Etiology, in the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center.

Dr. Henderson earned her undergraduate degree in History and Science from Harvard University in 1996. Her honors thesis, under the mentorship of Dr. Anne Harrington, was entitled 'Mind-body medicine and the development of breast cancer treatment in the 20th century.'

Dr. Henderson then pursued a master's degree in molecular epidemiology from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Brian E. Henderson. Her masters thesis was entitled 'Nested case-control study of IGF-I polymorphism and breast cancer: The Multiethnic Cohort.'

Dr. Henderson stayed at USC to pursue a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, completed in 2005, under the guidance of Drs. Sue Ingles and Malcolm Pike. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled 'Determinants of age at natural menopause: The Multiethnic Cohort.'

For her postdoctoral training, Dr. Henderson earned a National Institute on Aging fellowship at the USC Andrus School of Gerontology entitled 'Environmental and genetic predictors of timing of menopause, a key breast cancer risk factor.' This was completed under the mentorship of Dr. Leslie Bernstein.

As an Assistant Research Professor at the City of Hope Dr. Henderson is continuing her work in the epidemiology of women's cancers. Her primary research interests include the identification of modifiable factors relevant to cancer prevention and survival in women. Current candidates for such modifiable factors include diet, exercise and body size.