Professor
Department of Breast Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Woodward is a Professor and the Chair, ad interim of the department of Breast Radiation Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The MD Anderson Breast Radiotherapy Service represents decades of breast cancer expertise by ten radiation oncology clinicians and a specialized team of breast radiotherapy nurses, physicists, therapists, and dosimetrists.
Dr. Woodward treats all types of breast cancer and is particularly interested in complex, locally advanced breast cancers, including a rare type that presents suddenly as a swollen red breast, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC). She is the Executive Director, of the MDACC Inflammatory Breast Cancer Clinic and Research Program. This program is dedicated to advancing the radiation treatment and biologic understanding of inflammatory breast cancer through laboratory, translational, and clinical research. She runs a federally funded laboratory dedicated to advancing the understanding of IBC. She mentors numerous trainees inlcuding post-doctoral fellows, residents, clincal fellows and stduents and was honored with multiple mentoring awards. She was recently elected to the board of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, ASTRO.