Bio
Jeffrey A. Norton, M.D. is the Robert L. and Mary Ellenburg Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Norton is an expert on endocrine and upper gastrointestinal cancer. He has published numerous papers on these diseases especially on the surgical management of gastric cancer and pancreatic endocrine tumors. His laboratory effort is focused on improving the anti-tumor immune response through cellular immunotherapy with interleukin-12. He has several on going multi-department human clinical protocols for the treatment of pancreatic cancer and hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. He is on the Editorial Board of Annals of Surgery, and Cancer Research.