Dr. Ralph H. Hruban
Dr. Ralph H. Hruban is a Professor of Pathology
and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
and is the Director of the National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry.
After receiving his undergraduate degree
from the University of Chicago and his medical degree from Johns
Hopkins University, Dr. Hruban continued his residency training
at Johns Hopkins. He later spent one year as a Fellow at the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, returning
to join the Faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1990.
Dr. Hruban is presently the Director of
the Division of Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology at Hopkins and
is a member of the University's pancreatic cancer research team.
Dr. Hruban's research has focused on early
pancreatic cancer and on familial forms of pancreatic cancer;
he is an author of more than 275 related articles in peer-reviewed
journals. In addition, he helped found the Johns Hopkins Pancreatic Cancer webpage. Dr.
Hruban was awarded the "2001 Young Investigator Award"
from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology for
work on pancreatic cancer research. |
