David Alan Sweetser, MD
Pediatrician
- Departments
- Department of Pediatrics
Specialties
- Cancer Center
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- Hematology/Oncology
- Genetics
- Clinical Interests
- medical genetics
- Biochemical genetics
- Inherited cancer predispositions
- Pediatric oncology
- Hematologic malignancies
- Stem cell transplantation
- Inherited predispositions to malignancies
- Biochemical and genetics disorders affecting hematopoiesis
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Danvers: The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care
- Medical Education
- MD, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Residency, Children's Hospital of St.Louis
- Fellowship, Children's Hospital of St.Louis
- Fellowship, University of Washington Hospitals
- Board Certifications
- Clinical Biochemical Genetics, American Board of Medical Genetics
- Clinical Genetics (M.D.), American Board of Medical Genetics
- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, American Board of Pediatrics
- Patient Age Group
- Adult and pediatric
- Accepting New Patients
- Yes
- Insurances Accepted
- Aetna Health Inc.
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MGH Hotline 9.17.10 September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
David Sweetser, MD, PhD, chief of the Medical Genetics Program at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, explains why it is such an opportune time to be in the field.
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2696
Phone: 617-726-2737
Fax: 617-724-0702
Pediatric Genetics
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-1561
Fax: 617-724-1911
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