Kristin Brill named enterprise director of Breast Oncology at SKCC

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Breast surgeon Kristin L. Brill has joined the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center–Jefferson Health as enterprise director of Breast Oncology.

Particular areas of focus for Brill include young women with breast cancer and those at high risk.

Brill joins SKCC from Cooper University Health Care, where she was head of the Division of Breast Surgery and Director of the Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper and assistant professor of surgery at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She also directed the Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Cooper Medical School and was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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