Kristianna M Fredenburg, MD, PhD

Kristianna Fredenburg, M.D., Ph.D. is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine. She is a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist whose research spans head/neck and cardiothoracic pathology. Her research focuses on uncovering the underlying pathogenesis of head and neck cancers in the context of precision medicine.

Dr. Fredenburg earned her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She followed this degree with a doctorate in cell biology from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Duke University Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (Durham, North Carolina), Dr. Fredenburg went on to obtain her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later completed her pathology residency training and a two-year surgical pathology fellowship here, at the University of Florida.