Andrew S. Kraft, MD

After completing his residency, Dr. Kraft served as a research assistant and then as a clinical staff fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). After 13 years with the University of Alabama – Birmingham, he spent eight years at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, before being recruited to the Medical University of South Carolina in 2004. Dr. Kraft led the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina to become an NCI-designated cancer center with more than $42 million of annual research projects. In 2014, he joined the University of Arizona Cancer Center as director, serving until 2022.

He and his wife Katharine, a retired social worker, have three adult children living in the Denver area, near San Francisco and in Minneapolis. For 40 years, Dr. Kraft has enjoyed spending his free time as a sculptor, creating what he calls anthropomorphic statues, and life-size heads made in clay. He then casts them in various media, such as plaster or cement, or sends them to a foundry to be cast in bronze.