Edith A. Perez, M.D.

Edith A. Perez, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Medical School, in Rochester, MN. She is a member of the Mayo Clinic Women's Cancer Program Steering Committee as well as Director of the Cancer Clinical Study Unit at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Perez is also Chair of the Breast Committee, North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG). She also serves on the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Clinical Research Awards Committee as well as the Scientific Program Committee, Cancer Communications Committee, and Cancer Education Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Program Director, Special Populations Concerns, at the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Perez received her medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in San Juan, and she completed her residency in internal medicine at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. She served as a general internist in the Division of National Health Services Corps Region IX, Los Angeles, and a fellow in Hematology/Oncology at Martinez VA Medical Center at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.

Dr. Perez has developed and is involved in a wide range of clinical trials exploring the use of new therapeutic agents for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. She also has recently developed studies to evaluate the role of genetic markers in the development and aggressiveness of breast cancer.

A recipient of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Research Grant Award (1998-2006), she also received the 2002 Horizon Achievement Award in Cancer Research presented by Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and received the North Florida Hispanic of the Year — 2003 award. She has been a member of the Mayo Clinic's Institutional Review Board, the NCI-Central Institutional Review Board, and has been actively involved in NCI and NIH-related activities for many years. She has authored more than 150 research articles in journals and books and is a lecturer at numerous national and international meetings each year.