Derek Allison, MD

Dr. Allison is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Next, he completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, served as Chief Resident, and completed subspecialty fellowship training, all at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In addition to his clinical work, he is interested in clinical and translational cancer research, especially related to precision medicine. To date, he has published more than 65 peer‐reviewed manuscripts, authored several book chapters, and published two books. He currently serves as the Assistant Director and the Quality Officer of the Biospecimen Procurement & Translational Pathology Shared Resource Facility (BPTP SRF) at the Markey Cancer Center, which recently became a College of American Pathologists accredited Biorepository.