Cancer.Net Specialty Editor: Hereditary Cancer-Related Syndromes
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Dr. Bryson Katona is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics Program and Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk Evaluation Program, and he also is a member of the Cancer Control Program of the Abramson Cancer Center. Dr. Katona is a physician-scientist who is an expert in gastrointestinal cancer genetics, and his research program focuses on the diagnosis, risk assessment, management, and biology of hereditary gastrointestinal cancer predisposition syndromes. Dr. Katona sits on national committees for the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer (CGA-ICC), American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (NANETS), and the Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection (PRECEDE). He is also currently a member of the ASCO Annual Meeting Education Committee (Prevention, Risk Reduction & Hereditary Cancer Risk), as well as a member of the ASCO GI Cancer Symposium Committee.