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165 Windsor Rd
Waban, MA
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Dr Peter Newburger, MD

Professor & Vice Chair for Research

Bio

1979-81 Instructor to Asst. Prof. of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School & Children's Hospital Boston.

1981- 2018 Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

1981-2005 Assistant Prof. to Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics, UMass Medical School

2000- Vice Chair for Research, Dept. Pediatrics, UMass Medical School; Interim Chair 2001-2002

2003- Professor of Molecular, Cell &Cancer Biology, UMass Medical School

2005- 2018 Ali and John Pierce Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA

2018-  Ali and John Pierce Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology emeritus, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA

Advisory Committees and Other Activities/Honors:

1986-89, 1995-99 NIH Hematology II Study Section

1979-2012 NIH Special Study Sections; ad hoc member, Hematology, ELB, and Immunodeficiency Study Sections

2002 NIH/NCI Pediatric Oncology Branch: Intramural Research Review Committee

1988-92 Editorial Board, BLOOD

2000-2003 Chair, Publications Committee, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
2010-present Chair, Joint Publications Committee, ASPHO-SIOP

2002-2004 Chair, Scientific Committee on Pediatric Hematology, American Society of Hematology

2004- 2015 Associate then deputy editor, Pediatric Blood and Cancer


2015-   Editor-in-chief, Pediatric Blood and Cancer

2006-  Executive committee, Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry

Education

Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
MD, 1974
medicine (immunology)
1970 To 1974

Haverford College
Pennsylvania, United States
B.A.
Chemistry
1966 To 1970

Job History

University of Massachusetts Medical School
Asst Prof to Professor; director, pediatric hematology-oncology
Worcester, MA, United States
June 1981 - present

Dana- Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Attending physician,
Boston, MA, United States
January 2017 - present