John L. Cameron, MD

John’s Hopkins, Director of the Department of Surgery

Preformed Billy’s Whipple Surgery

Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dr. Cameron has had a long and distinguished career in alimentary tract diseases and specifically in pancreatic cancer. He has won worldwide acclaim for mastering the Whipple procedure. At the beginning of his career, the mortality rate from the Whipple procedure was nearly 30 percent. He has worked to lower that to 1 percent to 2 percent at Johns Hopkins. He has operated on more patients with pancreatic cancer and done more Whipple resections than any other surgeon in the world. In addition to maintaining a busy practice that focuses mainly on pancreatic surgery, he has been a leader in the surgical profession, serving as president of the American College of Surgeons, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Southern Surgical Association, Society of Clinical Surgery, Society of Surgical Chairmen, Halsted Society and American Surgical Association. He served as chief of surgery for The Johns Hopkins Hospital for nineteen years.

Yixing Jiang, BM, PhD

UMBGCCC, Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology

Billy’s Oncologist

University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC)

Dr. Jiang is a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers, including colorectal, esophageal, gastric, hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers. She is director of the gastrointestinal medical oncology program at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, Dr. Jiang works with surgical and radiation oncology specialists to deliver the best patient care possible. She was named a “Top Doctor” in colorectal and pancreatic cancer care by Baltimore magazine.