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Thomas Richard Spitzer

Thomas Richard Spitzer, MD

Internal MedicineHematologyMedical Oncology

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adults
  • Geriatrics

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

About Thomas Richard Spitzer

Dr. Spitzer is the associate director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplantation Tolerance at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), director emeritus of the MGH Bone Marrow Transplant Program, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and director of the MGH Cellular Therapeutics and Transplantation Laboratory.

Dr. Spitzer received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Bucknell University and his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and his hematology-oncology fellowship at Case Western Reserve University.

His primary academic interests include the development of novel strategies for performing stem cell transplants across HLA barriers and for the induction of specific tolerance for organ transplantation.

Locations

  1. Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Boston
    • 32 Fruit Street, Yawkey Building, 9th Floor, Suite 9e, Boston, MA 02114
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Expertise

Education

  • Fellowship: University Hospitals of Cleveland (Ohio), 1983
  • Residency: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1977
  • Residency: Cornell University Medical Center, Medicine, 1976
  • Medical Education: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1974

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1984
  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1983
  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1977

Insurance

Search plans
  • Aetna
  • Beech Street
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
  • Cigna
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Coventry
  • Fallon Health
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Humana
  • Maine Community Health Options
  • Mass General Brigham Health Plan
  • MassHealth
  • Medicaid ME
  • Medicaid NH
  • Medicaid NY
  • Medicaid RI
  • Medicaid VT
  • Medicare
  • Multiplan
  • Senior Whole Health
  • TriCare
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • Tufts Medicare Preferred
  • United Health Care
  • Wellpoint
  • WellSense
  • WellSense NH

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