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Our Affiliations
HMS Affiliate

Dana-Farber/Boston Children's is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

Our Affiliations

David A. Williams, MD

  • Associate Chairman, Department of Pediatric Oncology
  • Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital
  • Institute Physician
  • Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Appointment Phone

  • 617-632-3270
  • 888-733-4662

Fax

  • 617-730-0934

General

Treatment Centers

Discipline

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

Background

Board Certifications

  • Pediatrics

Fellowship

  • 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, 1980

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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