Alison Klein, Ph.D., M.H.S. joined the pancreatic cancer research team in November 2004. Dr. Klein received her B.S. in Biology from Boston College in 1994. In 1999, she received her M.H.S. in Biostatistics and in 2001, her Ph.D. in Epidemiology, both from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. From 2001 to 2004, she was a research fellow in the Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Klein is an Assistant Professor of Oncology in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center here at Johns Hopkins and is the Director of the National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry, which was founded in 1994. Working with Dr. Ralph Hruban, she will oversee the maintenance and further development of the registry and provide statistical analyses of the registry population. Dr. Klein's work will focus on the genetic epidemiology of pancreatic cancer in collaboration with Drs. Scott Kern, Michael Goggins and Ralph Hruban.

Dr. Klein can be reached at the following address:

Assistant Professor of Oncology and Pathology
The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1550 Orleans Street
CRB II, Room 303
Baltimore, MD 21231

Phone: 410-955-3511
Fax: 410-614-0671
E-mail: aklein1@jhmi.edu

Selected References

• Klein AP, Brune KA, Petersen GM, Goggins M, Tersmette AC, Offerhaus GJ, Griffin C, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Kern S, Hruban RH. Prospective risk of pancreatic cancer in familial pancreatic cancer kindreds. Cancer Res. 64:2634-8, 2004.
• Klein AP, Beaty TH, Bailey-Wilson JE, Brune KA, Hruban RH, Petersen, GM. Evidence for a major gene influencing risk of pancreatic cancer. Genet Epidemiol. 23:133-49, 2002.
• Klein AP, Hruban RH, Brune KA, Petersen GM, Goggins M. Familial pancreatic cancer. Cancer J. 7:266-73, 2001.