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Frederic Eckhauser, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery and Director of Clinical Operations in the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an attending surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Eckhauser trained at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed his residency in 1976. He served as the Chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Director of the Multidisciplinary GI Cancer Clinic at the University of Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan for nearly 25 years before returning to the Johns Hopkins in 2001. He has a longstanding interest in alimentary tract diseases, more specifically benign and malignant diseases (cancer) of the pancreas. He is the author or principal co-author of nearly 70 scientific publications dealing with pancreatic diseases. He brings to the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Pancreas Interdisciplinary Working Group substantial clinical expertise and a vigorous interest in the area of pancreatic cancer.