Matthew L. Anderson earned both his M.D. and Ph.D. at Yale University and trained clinically in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has completed additional subspecialty surgical training in gynecologic oncology at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Following his fellowship, Dr. Anderson joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), where he served as director for the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and one of the academic leads for the NCI-funded Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Anderson’s work at BCM led to national recognition for his efforts to improve rates of cervical cancer screening among medically underserved women in Texas.

In 2018, Dr. Anderson joined the University of South Florida. He currently serves as medical director for the Office of Clinical Research, where he has played a key role in establishing multiple new institutional resources, including a comprehensive population sciences data repository and a rapidly growing tissue biorepository. He maintains an active laboratory-based research program and participates actively in the NIH’s Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC). His work has been supported by the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), National Science Foundation, and the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, among others.