Kathie-Ann Joseph

Kathie-Ann Joseph is a surgeon and researcher at New York University Langone Health where she specializes in breast surgery and oncology surgery. Joseph is also the chief of breast surgery at Bellevue Medical Center, where she was recognized in 2015 as Bellevue's Physician of the Year. Joseph works to reduce disparities in cancer care in order to improve health care for individuals in need. Specifically, Joseph focuses on developing programs that will help African-American women to address their needs in breast cancer prevention and care. She is also studying the effects of a cell surface receptor molecule called RAGE which appears to play a role in tumor growth. She has presented before the President's Cancer Panel, an advisory board to the President of the United States. and has advised the New York State Cancer Consortium on the development of its cancer control plan. In 2009, Essence magazine included her among the year's 25 Most Influential African Americans. Kathie-Ann Ramsay married David Joseph in 1995 at Coral House in Baldwin, New York. She continues to live in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Dr. David Joseph and her two sons, Devon Joseph and Justin Joseph.

Education and experience Joseph earned her bachelor's degree in sociology in 1991 from Harvard University. She continued her education at Columbia College University of Physicians & Surgeons and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where she earned a joint M.D.-M.P.H. degree. She is also involved in testing new equipment that uses infrared rays to detect lesions,

Achievements and award While attending Harvard University, Joseph was awarded the Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her thesis called Triple Jeopardy: Elderly, Poor, African-American Women and Their Barriers to Health Care and Screening for Breast and Cervical Cancer. Joseph was the first African-American woman to be appointed to the faculty at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in the Department of Surgery. She was listed as one of New York Moves magazine's Power Women in 2005, and was one of those interviewed in New Yorks 2018 series "Powerful Women Talk About Power". She was named one of America's leading doctors in 2008, by Black Enterprise magazine. She was considered by Essence in 2009 to be one of the year's 25 Most Influential African Americans. In 2016, she was included in the list of top 10 Caribbean-born female doctors in the US, compiled by News Americas.