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Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE

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Adjunct Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
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13 Education:
21 9 B.A. 19 (Architecture) c
28 Yale University, 1986.
21 9 M.D. 15 (Medicine) c
31 Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
21 d M.S.C.E. 22 (Clinical Epidemiology) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
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24 57 Resident in Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1991-1994.
24 60 Chief Resident, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1995-1996.
24 88 Primary Care Physician Scientist Fellow, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-1998.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

54 medical decision making, genetic testing for breast cancer (BRCA1/2)
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Selected Publications

12b Armstrong K, Schwartz JS, Randall TC, Rubin SR, Weber BL: Hormone replacement therapy and life expectancy after prophylactic oophorectomy and in women with BRCA 1/2 mutations. Journal of Clinical Oncology 22: 1045-1054, 2004.

fc Peters N, Rose A, Armstrong K, : The association between race and attitudes about predictive genetic testing Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 13: 361--365, 2004.

119 Armstrong K, Weber BL, Asch DA : Life Insurance Purchasing by Women at Increased Risk for Breast Cancer: Is Adverse Selection a Plausible Threat? American Journal of Medical Genetics 3(120A): 359-364, 2003.

d3 Moran S, Glazier G, Armstrong K: Women Smokers Perceptions of smoking related health risks. Journal of Women's Health 4(2): 363-371, 2003.

123 Armstrong K, Weber B, Stofer J, Calzone K, Putt M, Coyne J, Schwartz JS: Early use of clinical BRCA 1/2 testing: Associations with race and breast cancer risk. American Journal of Medical Genetics 117: 154-160, 2003.

f7 Moran S, Thorndike AN, Armstrong K, Rignotti NA: Physicians missed opportunities to address tobacco use during prenatal care. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 5: 363-368, 2003.

123 Coyne JC, Kruss L, Racioppo M, Calzone KA, Armstrong K: What do ratings of cancer specific distress mean among women at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer. American Journal of Medical Ethics 3(116): 222-228, 2003.

fe Randall TC, Armstrong K: Differences in treatment and outcome between african american and caucasian women with endometrial cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 21: 4200-4206, 2003.

fe Armstrong K, Schwartz JS, FitzGerald G: Effect of framing as gain vs. loss on hypothetical treatment choices: survival and mortality curves. Medical Decision Making 21: 76-83, 2002.

135 Cox M, Schwartz S, Metlay J, Armstrong K, Shea J. : Third Annual Meeting of the Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) Project: Teaching the foundations of population-based medicine. AAMC UME Meeting March 2001.

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