Core Preceptors
Director
Mark R. Hellmich, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
The elucidation of signaling pathways regulated by heptahelical G-protein-linked peptide receptors of the gastrointestinal tract, specifically those coupled to the bombesin and gastrin family of receptors, and the identification and characterization of novel gastrin receptors in colorectal and pancreatic cancers
Associate Director
Taylor S. Riall, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Ppopulation-based outcomes and barriers to appropriate care in patients with pancreatic and other periampullary cancers
George H. Greeley, Jr., PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery
The molecular regulation of GI hormone production and secretion
Courtney M. Townsend, Jr., MD
John Woods Harris Distinguished Chair of Surgery and Professor, Department of Surgery
Gastrointestinal cancer, GI endocrinology and physiology