John Christopher Krauss, MD

John C. Krauss, M.D., graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1985, did his Internal Medicine training at the University of Minnesota, and then returned to the University of Michigan for his Hematology and Oncology specialty training. Dr. Krauss joined the University of Michigan Faculty in 1992, and then moved his research lab to the Cleveland Clinic to continue clinical research on harnessing the immune system to combat cancer. In 1998, Dr. Krauss came back to Ann Arbor to be the Associate Director of the Ann Arbor Community Cancer Oncology Program at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, and rose through the ranks to be the Section Head of Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Krauss treats a wide variety of patients with cancer, including breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, and kidney cancer, focusing both on providing the highest possible cure rates for cancer and the best quality of life for the patient while on the journey.

I am the medical director of the multidisciplinary colorectal clinic, and I actively lead therapeutic clinical trials at the University of Michigan in cooperation with the Southwest Oncology Group, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, other leading institutions.  I am actively working on eliminating surgery for selected patients with rectal cancer.  I am interested in improving communication with my patients so they can get the optimum care for complex conditions.  

University of Michigan Health participates with most health insurance plans.

I am interested in improving the diagnosis-based problem list in the electronic medical record. My hypothesis is that for outpatient visits, ranking the problems by acuity and mortality will help the clinician and the patient reach a mutual understanding of the short-term and long term threats to health. I am working on improving the quality of the problem list with measurable items like morbid obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.