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Early Life

Kathryn Dorothy Duncan Anderson was born in 1939 in the suburb of Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire, England. She wanted to become a surgeon from the age of 8. She earned her bachelor and masters of arts degrees from Cambridge University in 1961and 1964, respectively. In 1964, after marrying an American named French Anderson, she moved to the United States and attended Harvard Medical School. She completed and internship at Boston Children's Hospital in pediatric medicine from 1964 to 1965. Following this, Anderson completed her residency at Georgetown University Hospital in the surgical department, where she served as chief resident from 1969 to 1970. She completed a fellowship at the Children's National Medical Center in pediatric surgery from 1970 to 1972. In 1973, she gained American citizenship.

Career

Anderson has had multiple academic appointments over the course of her career. From 1972 to 1974, she was an assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics at Georgetown University. She then worked at George Washington University, where she stayed for eighteen years. She started as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 1978, and became a professor in 1983. She worked as an adjunct scientist in the molecular hematology branch of the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health from 1984 to 1992. In 1992, she became a professor of surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. One major area of research interest from 1972 to 2004 was esophageal replacement in children and infants. Anderson was featured in Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians for which a National Institutes of Health exhibition was open from October 2003 to April 2005. Anderson wrote a book in 2009 entitled Who Will Hold My Hand?: A Guide For Parents Whose Child Needs An Operation, which aims to help parents understand medical conditions and the medical system and is based on Anderson's training, personal experiences, and research. Anderson became the first female officer of the American College of Surgeons in 1992, and in 2005 became the first female president of the American College of Surgeons. Over the course of her career, Anderson was a practicing pediatric surgeon for 32 years in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California.

Honors

In 2005, Anderson became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. She became an Honorary Fellow of the the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2007.