Our Fellowship Program
The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program at
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center is one of the
most recognized in the nation with a long history of training leaders in the field. Our program offers the combined
excellence of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a world class cancer center, and
Boston Children’s Hospital, an internationally renowned children’s
hospital. Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s is ranked the #1 pediatric cancer center by U.S.
News & World Report. Our fellowship mission is to
provide the highest quality clinical and research training in pediatric
hematology/oncology so that our graduates become excellent clinicians, independent
investigators, and leaders who make substantive contributions to the field of
pediatric hematology and oncology.
Our program admits six new fellows per year. Fellows spend one
year in full-time clinical work and two or more years in research training,
depending on previous training and interests. The program is geared to broadly
train MD or MD/PhD fellows in any of the areas of clinical research, including
outcomes, ethics, epidemiology, therapeutic trials, and translational research,
or in one of the major basic science disciplines: protein chemistry, structural
biology, molecular biology, stem cell and developmental biology, genetics,
genomics, immunology, systems biology, neuroscience, or cell biology.
The breadth and
diversity of our patient population, combined with the depth of expertise of
our teaching faculty, provides the highest
quality clinical
training in pediatric hematology and oncology. Over 700 new
oncology patients are seen each year in the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, more than 1,300 new
benign hematology diagnoses are seen annually at Boston Children’s Hospital,
and we perform 135 stem cell transplants per year in our Stem Cell Transplant
Program. This outstanding clinical experience is supported by more than 110
faculty with tremendous expertise across all areas of pediatric hematology and
oncology.
Our program offers unparalleled opportunities
for research
and scholarship, fostering the
academic passions of all fellows. Through scholarly productivity and excellent
mentoring, our graduates are poised to become leaders in the field within their
chosen areas of focus. Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research with
preeminent mentors within the department of hematology/oncology at Dana-Farber/Boston
Children’s, but research can also be conducted with mentors throughout the
Boston area including at Harvard Medical School, the various Harvard
hospitals (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
the Whitehead Institute, and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, among
others. We currently support fellows’ research training with two NIH T32
training grants which total 18 training slots per year and also place fellows
in NIH training grants housed in other Harvard institutions and schools.
Meet our current and recent fellows: