Daniel D. Von Hoff, MD - University of Arizona - Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Arizona

Douglas B. Evans, MD - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Texas

Ralph H. Hruban, MD - The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Ralph H. Hruban is a Professor of Pathology and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his Doctor of Medicine from The Johns Hopkins University. He continued at Johns Hopkins for his residency training, spent one year as a Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and then returned to Johns Hopkins to join the Faculty in 1990. Dr. Hruban is the Director of the Division of Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology and a member of the highly successful pancreatic cancer research team at Johns Hopkins. This team has been responsible for many of the fundamental advances made in our understanding of pancreatic cancer over the last decade. Dr. Hruban’s work has focused on early pancreatic cancer and on familial forms of pancreatic cancer. In addition to his research efforts, he founded The National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry and helped found the Johns Hopkins Pancreatic Cancer Web Page: http://pathology.jhu.edu/pancreas. This web page serves as a resource to patients and their families, and the users of this web page organized to found PanCAN. Dr. Hruban is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of PanCAN, The Lustgarten Foundation, and The Michael Rolfe Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.