David S. Klimstra

David S. Klimstra, M.D. ’88, HS ’91, has been appointed chair of the Department of Pathology and incumbent of the James Ewing Alumni Chair of Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Klimstra is a board-certified surgical pathologist who is highly regarded for his expertise in the surgical pathology of tumors of the pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, liver, lung, salivary glands, and neuroendocrine organs. He has more than 20 years of diagnostic experience in tumor pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Klimstra’s research involves the correlation between the morphologic features of tumors that serve as the basis for classification and the clinical outcome, prognostic factors, and molecular genetic alterations in these tumors. His work has also contributed to our understanding of the process of carcinogenesis and the pathologic precursor lesions that precede the development of overt cancers in the pancreas and other organs.