Pancreatic Cancer Team

Teri Brentnall, M.D., Pancreatic Team Leader

University of Washington
Canary Pancreatic Team, Canary Baseline Team

Dr. Brentnall is a practicing gastroenterologist and an Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Washington, where she leads a research group that studies the growth of tumors in the gastrointestinal tract with an emphasis on pancreatic cancer. She is also an affiliate of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. A passionate cancer researcher, Dr. Brentnall is the driving force behind the University of Washington’s innovative Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance Study, which has been tracking high-risk patients for a decade in an effort to improve early detection methods. As a pancreatic cancer expert, Dr. Brentnall is actively involved in many pancreatic cancer research organizations and committees, including the GI oncology section of the American Gastroenterological Association, the NIH Progress Review Group for Pancreatic Cancer, the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Pancreatic Cancer Organization (PANCAN), and the Western Pancreas Cancer Group. She is also an invited panel member of the National Pancreatic Foundation Workshop on the Future of Research in Pancreatic Diseases. Dr. Brentnall earned an M.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle and completed her residency in Medicine at UCLA. She completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at University of Washington. See her faculty page for more information about Dr. Brentnall.