Discipline

Medical Oncologist

Research Department

Medical Oncology/Hematologic Malignancies

Interests

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Lymphoma, Stem cell/bone marrow transplantation

Biography

After obtaining an A.B. in chemistry at Harvard College, Dr. Davids completed his M.D. at the Yale University School of Medicine.  He served as an intern and resident in internal medicine at the NewYork-Prebyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.  He then completed his fellowship in hematology and oncology in the Dana-Farber Partners CancerCare program.  He is an attending physician in the Lymphoma Program of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at Dana-Farber, and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Davids has an active translational research program in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), studying mechanisms of treatment resistance and how resistance can be overcome in the laboratory, and developing clinical trials to evaluate these strategies in patients with CLL.

Background

Board Certification
Hematology, 2011
Internal Medicine, 2008
Medical Oncology, 2011

Fellowship
Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, Hematology/Oncology, 2011

Residency
New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Internal Medicine, 2008

Medical School
Yale University School of Medicine, 2005