Dr. Isaacs is the Director of the Clinical Breast Cancer Program at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She received her medical degree from McGill University in Montreal Canada and served as a resident in internal medicine at the Montreal General Hospital. She then complete two years of a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at McGill University and then undertook a final year of a breast cancer fellowship at Georgetown University. She then joined the faculty at Georgetown, where she is now an Associate Professor in Medicine and Oncology.
Her research interests include issues related to the evaluation and management of women at high risk for breast cancer as well as the treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Isaacs is the co-director of the Jess and Mildred Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research and has served as the principal investigator on a number of studies examining the role of novel screening or prevention measures in high risk women. In addition, she has an extensive experience in the conduct of clinical trials in early stage and metastatic breast cancer and has served as principal investigator on a number of cooperative group, pharmaceutical, and institutional clinical trials. She has authored numerous publications and chapters on a variety of topics related to breast cancer treatment and the management of high risk women and recently edited a definitive textbook on hereditary breast cancer.