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Sophia George, PhD is the Inaugural Associate Director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is an Associate Professor in the Division of Gynecological Oncology within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Sophia George, PhD is a molecular geneticist graduate from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. George then did her post-doctoral training in molecular pathology in Gynecological Pathology at Princess Margaret Cancer Center within the Ontario Cancer Institute and a second post-doc at Duke University in the Department of Medical Oncology in Hereditary breast cancer syndrome. She began her faculty position at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine in 2015.
Dr. George is a native of the Caribbean and is part of a team of multi-disciplinary team that studies the incidence of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome genetic mutations in the African diaspora. Her research interests lie in studyingthe pathogenesis of sporadic and hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. She uses molecular genetics, epigenetics, and transcriptomics to study disease pathogenesis, variation across populations, and overall outcome of women diagnosed with these diseases. She is co-principal Investigator and founder of the Transatlantic Gynecologic Cancer Research Consortium and facilitated the establishment of 2 Gyn Onc fellowship programs in the Bahamas and Nigeria with the University of Miami and the International Gynecologic Cancer Society.