David A. Williams, MD

Associate Chairman, Department of Pediatric Oncology

Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Boston Children's Hospital

Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital

Institute Physician

Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Office Phone: 617-919-2697

Appointment Phone: 617-355-8246, ext. 1

Fax: 617-730-0934

Preferred Contact Method: appointment phone

General

Treatment Centers

Discipline

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Clinical Interests

Aplastic anemia, Blood formation, Chronic granulomatous disease, Fanconi anemia and other genetic disorders, Gene therapy, Genetic blood disorders, Hematopoiesis, Neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction syndromes, Stem cell biology, Viral vectors

Location

Boston Children's Hospital

300 Longwood Ave.

Boston, MA 02115

Background

Board Certifications

Pediatrics

Fellowships

Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1985

Residency

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Pediatrics, 1982

Internships

Pediatrics, Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Medical School

Indiana University School of Medicine, Medicine, 1979

Biography

Dr. David A. Williams is a graduate of Indiana State University and Indiana University School of Medicine. After training in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Williams completed fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's. He completed his research training here and at the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then became a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

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