Katherine Calvo
MD, PhD
Medicine
Pathology
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Dr. Katherine R. Calvo is a hematopathologist and Acting Chief of the Hematology Service in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Her area of expertise and research encompasses acquired and germline predisposition to bone marrow failure, MDS/AML, GATA2 deficiency, RUNX1 Familial Platelet disorder, VEXAS, hematolymphoid malignancies, and immunological disorders with bone marrow pathology.
Dr. Calvo earned her B.A. from Reed College in Portland, OR, and her M.D. Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego in 2003. Her Ph.D. research focused on the role of homeobox genes, including HoxA9, E2A-PBX1, and Nup98-HoxA9, in the development of acute leukemia.
Dr. Calvo joined the National Cancer Institute at NIH in 2003 as a resident in Anatomic Pathology and later became a Hematopathology fellow where she studied the role of cytokines in the lymph node microenvironment of follicular lymphoma.
In 2008 Dr. Calvo joined the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center. She is board certified in Hematopathology and Anatomic Pathology by the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Calvo has published over 100 research and clinical manuscripts, authored multiple book chapters, is a consultant on numerous clinical trials at NIH.
