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About Howard Weinstein, MD
Univ. of Maryland Medical School 68-72
Pediatric Internship/Residency - Mass General Hosp. 72-74
NIH Fellow- NCI- 74-75
Pediatric Hem-Onc Fellowship- Boston Children's/Dana Farber Cancer Inst. 75-77
Pediatric Hem-Onc Faculty- Boston Children's/Dana Farber 77-96
Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology- Mass General Hosp. for Children 96-present
Alan R. Ezekowitz Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Interests:
- Brain tumors
- Cancer
- Childhood solid tumors
- Leukemia
- Pediatric leukemias and lymphomas
- Stem cell transplantation
Treats:
- Pediatrics
Languages:
- French
Locations
Mass General for Children: Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
55 Fruit St.
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 8B
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2737
Medical Education
- MD, University Of Maryland
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital
- Fellowship, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- Fellowship, Nat'l Cancer Institute
American Board Certifications
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- 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 CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Clinical trials for children with ALL, AML, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and Hodgkin lymphoma.
Publications
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One of 125 pubs.
Relapse after treatment of pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma: outcome and role of surveillance after end of therapy.Friedmann AM, Wolfson JA, Hudson MM, Weinstein HJ, Link MP, Billett A, Larsen EC, Yock T, Donaldson SS, Marcus K, Krasin MJ, Howard SC, Metzger ML.
Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Sep;60(9):1458-63. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24568. Epub 2013 May 15.
- PMID:
- 23677874
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]