[4] Prowell completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature at Bard College, where she was encouraged by her academic advisor, Clark Rodewald, to pursue a medical career.

[5] Prowell completed an internal medicine residency in the Osler Housestaff Training Program and medical oncology fellowship at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, both at Johns Hopkins.

[3] She has held joint appointments since that time at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she is an Associate Professor of Oncology and at the FDA where she serves as Breast Cancer Scientific Liaison.

[7] She played a key role in developing FDA’s policy on accelerated approval using pathological complete response as a novel regulatory endpoint in the neoadjuvant high-risk breast cancer setting.

[18] NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) subsequently announced that the updated eligibility criteria were mandatory for use in all CTEP-sponsored clinical trials.

[23] While serving as Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2020 Annual Meeting Education Committee, Prowell co-authored The Language of Respect document intended to address these issues as well as mitigate unconscious gender and racial bias in speaker introductions at conferences.

[33] Prowell's tweet and subsequent efforts earned her a Webby Special Achievement in May 2020 for "her use of the Internet to organize a blood drive and to inspire COVID-19 survivors to donate their plasma to those still in the fight to recover.