Dr. Charles Schiffer is currently Professor of Medicine and Oncology at the Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Schiffer received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He stayed on at NYU, completing his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital, where he was Chief Resident. Dr. Schiffer is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Before assuming his current position at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Dr. Schiffer was Chief of the Division of Hematology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and also spent several years as Head of the Cell Component Therapy Section at the Baltimore Cancer Research Program. He has served as Chair of the Leukemia Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B and of the Oncology Drug Advisory Committee on the FDA.
Dr. Schiffer is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Society of Hematology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and sits on the editorial boards of several oncology journals, and is the editor of the Leukemia section in the journal Current Opinion in Oncology. Dr. Schiffer is a respected expert in leukemia and platelet transfusion therapy and has published numerous papers on these subjects. He has been consistently named among the best doctors in America for the treatment of leukemia, for the past ten years.
