Our Faculty

Kathleen Kemmer, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Specialty: Breast Cancer, Lung, Gastrointestinal and Solid Tumor Medical Oncology

Administrative Office:  503-494-8534
Clinic: 503-494-6594
E-mail: kemmerk@ohsu.edu

Dr. Kemmer earned her medical doctorate at the University of Minnesota Medical School.  She then completed her residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where she stayed on for one additional year as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.  She went on to complete her fellowship training at Oregon Health & Science University. Most recently, from 2003-2006, she practiced general hematology and oncology at the Annapolis Oncology Center with a focus on treating women with breast cancer and counseling high risk women. 

• Kemmer K, Corless C, Fletcher J, Mcgreevey L, Haley A, Griffith D, Cummings O, Town A, and Heinrich M. KIT mutations are common in Testicular Seminomas. American Journal of Pathology 164:305-313, 2004. Also oral presentation and abstract at the AACR Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 9, 2002 and updated oral presentation and abstract at ASCO Molecular Therapeutics Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 8, 2002.
• Madani A, Kemmer K, Sweeney C, Corless C, Ulbright T, Heinrich M, Einhorn L. Expression of KIT and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in chemotherapy refractory non-seminomatous germ cell tumors. Annals of Oncology 14:873-880, 2003.
• Kruys V, Kemmer K, Shakhav A, Jongeneel V, and Beutler B. Constitutive activity of the tumor necrosis factor promoter is canceled by the 3’ untranslated region in nonmacrophage cell lines; a trans-dominant factor overcomes this suppressive effect. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 89(2): 673-677, 1992.
• Serie J, Cooper H, Kemmer K, and Hegre O. Growth of neonatal islet transplants in the spontaneous diabetic BB/WOR rat. Diabetes 41(9): 1122-1129, 1992. (Also presented poster at International Diabetes Conference, Washington, D.C. 1991)