Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Staff Physician, Corporal Michael Crescenz VA Medical Center
Dr. Maxwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a Staff Physician at the Corporal Michael Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Her clinical practice is in the area of cancer risk evaluation. At Penn Medicine, she is a regional referral expert for patients with Li Fraumeni Syndrome and the Director of the Penn Medicine Basser Center for BRCA’s Men and BRCA Program. Dr. Maxwell also directs the Cancer Genetics Program at the Corporal Michael Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia and is supported by the VA National Oncology Program (NOP) to perform research in cancer genetics. Her laboratory studies mechanisms of tumor formation in breast and prostate cancer due to germline mutations in TP53 and other DNA repair genes such as BRCA1/2; and uses a variety of basic modelling and translational human genetics and genomics techniques to study breast and prostate cancer. Dr. Maxwell is a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists and a National Cancer Institute K08 Award. Her laboratory is funded through the Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Li Fraumeni Syndrome Association and the Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine.