Kimberly Perez, MD

Clinical Investigator, Hale Family Center For Pancreatic Cancer Research

Department Of Medical Oncology,                                       Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Assistant Professor Of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Bio     Research Interests     Key Publications

Bio

Dr. Kimberly Perez, MD is a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Oncology and Cancer Genetics and Prevention disease centers. She is a Senior Physician in Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an Associate Physician in Medical Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, co-Director of the DFCI Gastrointestinal Clinical Trials program, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

She received her undergraduate training at Georgetown University in Washington DC and received her medical doctorate from George Washington University in Washington DC. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Rhode Island Hospital in 2010. After completing her fellowship, she joined the medical faculty at Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and served as a Gastrointestinal Oncologist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Rhode Island Hospital.

She joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2015 as a medical oncology physician-scientist who provides patient care and conducts clinical research of novel therapies for patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancers and inherited cancer syndromes. Since she joined the faculty, she was designated a Hale Family Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research Clinical Investigator and has developed and led investigator-initiated bench to clinic multi-institutional clinical trials for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Within the Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid program, she has led multi-institutional clinical trials, translational efforts, and served and led national therapeutic guideline efforts.

Research Interests

Dr. Perez is a medical oncology physician-scientist who provides patient care and conducts clinical research of novel therapies for patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancers and associated hereditary cancer syndromes. Since she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2015, she has developed and led investigator initiated clinical trials investigating novel therapies for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine tumors. 

Key Publications

J Clin Oncol. 2023 Nov 10;41(32):5049-5067. doi: 10.1200/JCO.23.01529. Epub 2023 Sep 29.
PMID: 37774329
 
Oncologist. 2023 May 8;28(5):425-432. doi: 10.1093/oncolo/oyad002.
PMID: 36807743
 
Pancreas. 2022 Aug 1;51(7):763-768. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000002099.
PMID: 36395401
 
Endocr Relat Cancer. 2022 Jul 19;29(9):533-544. doi: 10.1530/ERC-21-0392. Print 2022 Sep 1.
PMID: 35731023
 
JCO Precis Oncol. 2021 Nov;5:808-816. doi: 10.1200/PO.21.00047.
PMID: 34994613

Hamada T, Yuan C, Yurgelun MB, Perez K, Khalaf N, Morales-Oyarvide V, Babic A, Nowak JA, Rubinson DA, Giannakis M, Ng K, Kraft P, Stampfer MJ, Giovannucci EL, Fuchs CS, Ogino S, Wolpin BM. Family history of cancer, Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and pancreatic cancer risk. Br J Cancer. 2019;120(8):848-54. Epub 2019/03/15. doi: 10.1038/s41416-019-0426-5. PubMed PMID: 30867564; PMCID: PMC6474278.
 
Yurgelun MB, Chittenden AB, Morales-Oyarvide V, Rubinson DA, Dunne RF, Kozak MM, Qian ZR, Welch MW, Brais LK, Da Silva A, Bui JL, Yuan C, Li T, Li W, Masuda A, Gu M, Bullock AJ, Chang DT, Clancy TE, Linehan DC, Findeis-Hosey JJ, Doyle LA, Thorner AR, Ducar MD, Wollison BM, Khalaf N, Perez K, Syngal S, Aguirre AJ, Hahn WC, Meyerson ML, Fuchs CS, Ogino S, Hornick JL, Hezel AF, Koong AC, Nowak JA, Wolpin BM. Germline cancer susceptibility gene variants, somatic second hits, and survival outcomes in patients with resected pancreatic cancer. Genet Med. 2019;21(1):213-23. Epub 2018/07/03. doi: 10.1038/s41436-018-0009-5. PubMed PMID: 29961768.
 
Aguirre AJ, Nowak JA, Camarda ND, Moffitt RA, Ghazani AA, Hazar-Rethinam M, Raghavan S, Kim J, Brais LK, Ragon D, Welch MW, Reilly E, McCabe D, Marini L, Anderka K, Helvie K, Oliver N, Babic A, Da Silva A, Nadres B, Van Seventer EE, Shahzade HA, St Pierre JP, Burke KP, Clancy T, Cleary JM, Doyle LA, Jajoo K, McCleary NJ, Meyerhardt JA, Murphy JE, Ng K, Patel AK, Perez K, Rosenthal MH, Rubinson DA, Ryou M, Shapiro GI, Sicinska E, Silverman SG, Nagy RJ, Lanman RB, Knoerzer D, Welsch DJ, Yurgelun MB, Fuchs CS, Garraway LA, Getz G, Hornick JL, Johnson BE, Kulke MH, Mayer RJ, Miller JW, Shyn PB, Tuveson DA, Wagle N, Yeh JJ, Hahn WC, Corcoran RB, Carter SL, Wolpin BM. Real-time Genomic Characterization of Advanced Pancreatic Cancer to Enable Precision Medicine. Cancer Discov. 2018;8(9):1096-111. Epub 2018/06/16. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-0275. PubMed PMID: 29903880; PMCID: PMC6192263.
 
Perez K, Clancy TE, Mancias JD, Rosenthal MH, Wolpin BM. When, What, and Why of Perioperative Treatment of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2017;35(5):485-9. Epub 2016/12/29. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.70.2134. PubMed PMID: 28029328; PMCID: PMC5455317.
 
Safran H, Charpentier KP, Perez K, Mantripragada K, Miner T, DiPetrillo T, Kuritzky B, Apor E, Bishop K, Luppe D, Mitchell K, Rosati K. FOLFOX+Nab-Paclitaxel (FOLFOX-A) for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Brown University Oncology Research Group Phase I Study. Am J Clin Oncol. 2016;39(6):619-22. Epub 2015/11/03. doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000000246. PubMed PMID: 26523444.

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