Anna Biernacka MD, PhD

Anna Biernacka, M.D., Ph.D., earned her medical and doctoral degrees from the Medical University of Lodz in Poland. Subsequently, she became a postdoctoral research fellow in cancer and cardiovascular biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, respectively. She then completed residency in Anatomic Pathology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, followed by fellowships in cytopathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and breast pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined UChicago Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 2017, where she serves as a breast pathologist and a cytopathologist. She has published 16 peer-reviewed articles, co-authored one book chapter, and presented at 20 conferences.

Dr. Biernacka is a board-certified anatomic pathologist and cytopathologist with expertise in breast pathology. She works closely with other members of the Multidisciplinary Breast Program at the University of Chicago, providing comprehensive and coordinated care to breast cancer patients. Her clinical and research interests center on the morphologic and molecular features of breast diseases, with a special focus on apocrine lesions and androgen receptor signaling in breast cancer.