Thomas Richard Spitzer, MD
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
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.
Education & Training
- 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
- Hematology, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Medical Oncology, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Languages Spoken
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- WellSense NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid NH
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Senior Whole Health
- Medicaid NY
- Aetna
- Maine Community Health Options
- United Health Care
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Medicaid VT
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Humana
- Medicare
- WellSense
- TriCare
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- MassHealth
- Cigna
- Beech Street
- Medicaid ME
- Tufts Health Plan
- Multiplan
- Coventry
- Fallon Health