Dr. Ralph H. Hruban

Dr. Ralph H. Hruban is a Professor of Pathology and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is the Director of the National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Hruban continued his residency training at Johns Hopkins. He later spent one year as a Fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, returning to join the Faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1990.

Dr. Hruban is presently the Director of the Division of Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology at Hopkins and is a member of the University's pancreatic cancer research team.

Dr. Hruban's research has focused on early pancreatic cancer and on familial forms of pancreatic cancer; he is an author of more than 275 related articles in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he helped found the Johns Hopkins Pancreatic Cancer webpage. Dr. Hruban was awarded the "2001 Young Investigator Award" from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology for work on pancreatic cancer research.