About Pancreatic Cancer Research

Kimberly Perez, MD

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.