Robert Jenkins, M.D.

Inducted in 2012

• Graduate, EPCHS Class of 1973

• Earned B.A. from Northwestern in 1977, Ph.D. from University of Chicago, 1981 and M.D., University of Chicago, 1983

• Dr. Jenkins is a consultant in Laboratory medicine, with secondary appointments in experimental biology, medical genetics, tumor biology, biochemistry and molecular biology and molecular neurosciences.

• Dr. Jenkins serves as co-director of Mayo Clinic Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory.

• Dr. Jenkins is credited with a discovery and patent of a genetic alteration that is associated with a specific type of brain tumor

• He Co-invented a diagnostic test for bladder cancer

• He is internationally known for his research and discoveries in prostate and urologic cancers

• Presently Dr. Jenkins is a Professor, Mayo Clinic