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Harold Burstein, MD, PhD
Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a medical oncologist in the Breast Oncology Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He graduated from Harvard College before earning his MD at Harvard Medical School. Burstein also received a PhD in cellular immunology and a master's degree in history of science from Harvard. He trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital before his oncology fellowship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In 1999, he joined Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women's Hospital, where he is a clinician and clinical investigator with a practice devoted exclusively to breast cancer. He is board certified in medical oncology and internal medicine. Burstein serves on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Breast Cancer Panel, the CALGB Breast Committee, and several working groups in the American Society of Clinical Oncology focusing on breast cancer.
