Nancy G. Wolf, M.D., PhD.

Dr. Nancy G. Wolf has an A.B. from Harvard University, a Diploma in Human Biology from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. She did postdoctoral research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at McGill University.

Dr. Wolf went on to earn an M.D. from the Health Sciences and Technology Program of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and divided her residency in anatomic pathology between Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She did postdoctoral research in genetics at Case, a fellowship in clinical cytogenetics at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and was appointed as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Genetics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Wolf is board-certified in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Cytogenetics. She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics and a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists.

Published in the fields of marine biology, pathology, and ovarian cancer genetics, Dr. Wolf has also collaborated on a variety of projects related to medical education. These include the development of an electronic curriculum in clinical cancer genetics for medical students, and the development of appropriate models for community-based education and testing for hereditary susceptibility to cancer. She is also involved in an international collaboration that is working to improve women’s health care in Israel.

Dr. Wolf had her first exposure to Austria when her father, the late Ambassador Milton A. Wolf, was the U.S. envoy to Vienna. She became interested in the American Austrian Foundation when her late father served as its president, and she joined the board of the AAF in 2006. She is married to Dr. Aric Greenfield, an oncologist with the Cleveland Clinic.

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