Chris Umbricht

Dr. Umbricht is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Oncology, and Pathology. His background covers the fields of pathology, medicine, molecular biology, and genetics. His research is focused on refining the therapeutic approach to typically overtreated conditions, such as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast or in node- negative breast cancer. Dr. Umbricht has developed an integrated clinical-pathological relational database of all breast disease-related data available at The Johns Hopkins Hospital over the last 25 years. With the support of information systems personnel, Dr. Umbricht has extracted and annotated available data pertaining to pathology reports, tissue availability, treatment, follow-up and final outcome information on patients with breast disease seen at this institution since 1985.