UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Photo of Jeffrey M. Venstrom, MD  Jeffrey M. Venstrom, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), UCSF

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Education

Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, BS, 1995-1999, Neuroscience
Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, MD, 1999-2004, Medicine
National Institutes of Health, NIDDK, 2002-2003, Clinical Research
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Residency, 2004-2006, Internal Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Fellowship, 2006-2010, Hematology/Oncology

Professional Experience

  • 2002-2003
    Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, NIDDK, NIH Intramural Clinical Research Training Program
  • 2004-2006
    Resident, Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital. American Board of Internal Medicine Research Pathway - Internal Medicine Training
  • 2006-2010
    Fellow, Medical Oncology and Hematology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, American Board of Internal Medicine Research Pathway - Clinical Subspecialty and Research Training
  • 2010-present
    Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Honors & Awards

  • 1998
    Phi Beta Kappa
  • 1999
    Graduation with Honors, summa cum laude
  • 2003
    Alpha Omega Alpha
  • 2002
    Medical Student Fellow, NIH Intramural Clinical Research Training Program/Curriculum
  • 2008
    Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • 2008
    Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center, Clinical Research Scholar Award

Selected Publications

  • Venstrom JM, Gooley TA, Spellman S, Pring J, Malkki M, Dupont B, Petersdorf E, Hsu KC. Donor activating KIR3DS1 is associated with decreased acute GvHD in unrelated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood. Epub Feb 1, 2010.
  • Venstrom JM, Zheng J, Noor N, Danis KE, Yeh AW, Cheung IY, Dupont B, O'Reilly RJ, Cheung N, Hsu KC. KIR and HLA Genotypes are Associated with Disease Progression and Survival following Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for High-Risk Neuroblastoma. Clin Cancer Research 2009 Dec 1;15(23): 7330-7334 *Article highlighted in Nature Reviews Clin Oncol, Feb 2010
  • Yu J, Venstrom J, Liu X, Hasan R, Pring J, O'Reilly R, Hsu K. Breaking tolerance to self, circulating natural killer cells expressing inhibitory KIR for non-self HLA exhibit effector function following T-cell depleted allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Blood 2009 April 16;113(16):3875-84
  • Venstrom JM, McBride MA, Rother KI, Hirshberg B, Orchard TJ, Harlan DM. Survival after Pancreas Transplantation in Patients with Diabetes and Preserved Kidney Function. JAMA 2003 Dec 3;290(21):2817-2823

Updated: September 22, 2010