Jennifer Litton

Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine University of Texas MD Anderson Center Houston, TX, US Jennifer Keating Litton, MD is Professor in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology and Clinical Cancer Genetics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She holds an additional faculty position in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. She attended Duke University, with degrees in English and in History and The University of Massachusetts Medical School. After completing an Internal Medicine Residency at Baylor College of Medicine, she then served as the Chief Medical Resident. She completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center before joining the faculty in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology where she is Chief, Section of Clinical Research and Drug Development. Her research interests include the treatment of young breast cancer patients, including the treatment of breast cancer during pregnancy, treatment-related infertility, hereditary cancer syndromes, immunotherapy and triple negative breast cancer. She is the principle investigator for multiple clinical trials. She serves as a member of the National Cancer Center Network National Guidelines Panel for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndromes as well as an Editor for the NIH Physician Data Query (PDQ) and has been appointed to the Breast Immuno-Oncology Task Force of the National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Steering Committee. She has authored multiple abstracts, peer-reviewed journal articles, and book chapters. Dr. Litton has served on the boards of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, the Children’s Fund, Suites of Hope and is an alumni of the Texas Lyceum. She lives in Houston with her husband Todd and their three children.