Karla Kerlikowske, MD
Staff Physician, Medical Service, SFVAMC
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
Email: Karla.Kerlikowske@va.gov
Screening Mammography and Breast Cancer
Dr. Kerlikowske has expertise in prevention of breast, ovarian, endometrial, and cervical cancer. She has established guidelines for the evaluation of an abnormal mammography result and evaluation of a breast lump. Dr. Kerlikowske's research program focuses on the epidemiology of invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS); patient and physician factors that influence the accuracy of screening mammography; improving breast cancer risk assessment and breast cancer detection in high risk women; epidemiologic, biologic and genetic studies of breast density; and predictors of breast cancer recurrence. She has published extensively on the accuracy, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of mammography by patient and physician characteristics, epidemiology of DCIS, and epidemiology of breast density. She mentors Women's Health and General Internal Medicine fellows and Prime residents at the SFVAMC on research projects related to breast cancer and women's health.
Tice JA, Cummings SR, Smith-Bindman R, Ichikawa L, Barlow WE, Kerlikowske K. 2008. Breast cancer risk assessment including mammographic breast density: Development and validation of a new model in an ethnically diverse cohort. Ann Intern Med 148:337-447.
Kerlikowske K, Walker, R, Miglioretti DL, Desai A, Ballard-Barbash R, Buist DSM. 2008. Obesity, mammography use and accuracy, and advanced breast cancer risk. JNCI 100:1724-1733.
