McCarthy Jr., Philip L., MD
Chief, Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Department of Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
Dr. Philip L. McCarthy, Jr., joined the staff of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in 1996, and became Chief of the Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Medicine, in 1997. He earned his medical degree at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, in 1982, and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1985. Between 1985 and 1989, he completed a clinical fellowship in Medicine and a research/clinical fellowship in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Dr. McCarthy is licensed by New York and Massachusetts, and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine, 1985; Medical Oncology, 1987; Hematology, 1988). He also is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. McCarthy’s research interests focus on the health effects of radiation exposure; modulation of graft versus host disease and of chemotherapy toxicity; blood and marrow stem cell isolation; immune modulation after transplantation; cancer immunotherapy; developing models for patient outcomes after blood and marrow transplantation; and understanding and evaluating patient and physician perception of treatment risk.
Dr. McCarthy is a member of the American Society of Hematology, International Society for Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering, American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and American Society of Clinical Oncology. He currently serves on the Bone Marrow Transplant Committee of the CALGB and on several committees at RPCI and the University at Buffalo.
Dr. McCarthy has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal publications, book chapters and abstracts. He is Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, European Respiratory Journal and Environmental Health Perspectives, and on the Editorial Board of Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and Bone Marrow Transplantation.
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