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Gregory A. Abel, MD, MPH


Medical Oncology

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Physician

  • Director, Older Adult Hematologic Malignancy Program
  • Senior Physician
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Centers/Programs

Clinical Interests

  • Leukemia, Myelodysplastic syndromes, Myeloproliferative disorders

Diseases Treated

Contact Information

  • Appointments617-632-6028 (new)
    617-632-1906 (follow-up)
  • Office Phone Number617-632-1906
  • Fax617-632-2933

Bio

Dr. Abel received his MD and MPH from Columbia University in 2000. He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and his hematology/oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In 2007, he joined Dana-Farber and is a member of the Hematologic Malignancies staff, as well as the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research.

Board Certification:

  • Internal Medicine, 2003
  • Oncology, 2007

Fellowship:

  • Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, Hematology/Oncology

Residency:

  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Internal Medicine

Medical School:

  • Columbia University

Research

Health Services Research, Outcomes Research, Hematologic Malignancies

My research aims to apply health services methods to understand the experiences of patients with cancer and to answer questions about the effectiveness of cancer care. I am also interested in evaluating how intensive cancer therapy affects outcomes other than survival, such as quality of life and financial well-being. I primarily focus on the hematologic malignancies, studying the impact of these diseases and their treatment from diagnosis to the end of life. Specific interests have included the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising in cancer care, utility of surveillance imaging for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, effects of delays in diagnosis for blood cancers, and therapeutic changes and treatment disparities for patients with multiple myeloma. I have also been fortunate to receive a grant from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for a longitudinal study to compare the effectiveness of treatments for older patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Another project aims to characterize the financial burden experienced by patients who undergo stem cell transplantation, and whether an increase in that burden is associated with compromised outcomes. Finally, I am interested in expanding and improving the tools available for outcomes research in hematologic oncology. For example, I am developing a new disease-specific measure of quality of life for patients with MDS (the “QUALMS-1”), and have created an MDS prognostic scoring system for use with the large SEER-Medicare dataset.

Location

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Avenue
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Boston, MA 02215
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