Kathy S. Albain is Professor of Medicine at the Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University Chicago. She is a member of the Division of
Hematology/Oncology, Loyola University Medical Center, and devotes her clinical practice to patients with breast and lung cancer at Loyola's Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center. She is director of its Breast Cancer Research program, co-director of the multidisciplinary Breast Care Center, director of the Thoracic Oncology program, and serves as a consultant to the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. She is a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where she originally enrolled as a music major. Her single elective course in her freshman year, chemistry, led her into science and ultimately medicine. But she remained a music minor (pipe organ) in college and has never lost her love for music. She is a member of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in River Forest, Illinois and sings in its Senior Choir.