Education
Doctor Abbruzzese received his bachelor"s degree in Biology from Fairfield University in 1974. Medical degree with honors from the University of Chicago - Pritzker School of Medicine in 1978. And completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1979 to 1981.
Doctor Abbruzzese also completed clinical fellowships in Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1981, Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School in 1982.
And Medical Oncology Laboratory of Neoplastic Disease Mechanisms at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1983.
Career
Previously, Abbruzzese was Chairman of the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at the University of Texas M. Doctorate. Anderson Cancer Center where he held the M. G. and Lillie A. Johnson Chair for Cancer Treatment and and the Annie Laurie Howard Distinguished Professorship. Doctor Abbruzzese is one of the world"s foremost leaders in the clinical study and treatment of pancreatic cancer. Doctor Abbruzzese research is focused on the development of novel therapeutic agents for pancreatic and other gastrointestinal cancers.
He is principal investigator of a phase I drug development grant from the National Cancer Institute and another grant to develop techniques to assess the impact of novel targeted therapeutic agents in cancer patients.
In October 2008, Doctor Abbruzzese published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology the first-of-its-kind findings of a study showing the discovery that exposure to the hepatitis B virus (HBV) may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer. Doctor Abbruzzese is the author of over 150 original articles and book chapters and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pancreatology.
He serves on the editorial board of a number of prestigious journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Clinical Cancer, and also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Doctor Doctor Doctor
