Associate Laboratory Director
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Dr. Church is a Molecular and Pediatric Pathologist at Boston Children's Hospital, where she is a founder and associate medical director of the Laboratory for Molecular Pediatric Pathology (LaMPP). She is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Program Director for the Harvard Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship, and the Chair of Training & Education for the Association for Molecular Pathology.
Her clinical and research work focus on bringing molecular testing to the clinical care of children with cancer. Through institutional projects (the Profile study, GAIN consortium study) we have profiled thousands of children's tumors and have used these results to make real-time impacts on their diagnoses and treatments. Dr. Church is also involved in national initiatives to improve the quality and access to molecular testing for children with cancer, including the NCI-funded Count Me In Study (Dana Farber, Broad Institute), the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, National Institutes of Health, and the Children's Oncology Group.
