Theresa L. Whiteside PhD

Dr. Whiteside received both her MA and Ph.D. degree in Microbiology from Columbia University, New York, NY. She became a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology in 1979. She spent a year (1984-85) working at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland as a Fogarty Senior International Fellow. At the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Whiteside rose through the faculty ranks to become Associate Professor (1979) and Professor of Pathology (1989-present).

In 1986 she became a member of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and was appointed Director of the Immunologic Monitoring and Diagnostic Laboratory a position she held until stepping down in July 2010. In recognition of her research achievements in the biology of head and neck cancer, Dr. Whiteside was granted secondary appointments as Professor of Otolaryngology and Professor of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.