Dr. Pierce is a Professor with tenure of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs of the university. She has published over 160 manuscripts and book chapters and has received numerous teaching awards and international honors. She is a member of both the Steering Committee of the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group at the University of Oxford and the National Cancer Institute, NIH Breast Cancer Steering Committee. Her research focuses on the use of radiotherapy in the multi-modality treatment of breast cancer, with emphasis on cardiac-sparing treatment planning, pre-clinical and clinical studies of radiation sensitizers and RT, and outcomes following radiation in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
