David G. Nathan is a pediatrician and hematologist. He is known for his authorship of Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood, a standard reference in pediatrics, currently in its seventh edition. Nathan remains an author on the current edition. Now retired, he was Robert A. Stranahan professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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 and served as president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is part of a Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute. It is a major affiliate of Harvard Medical School and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.-Overview:...

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Awards and honors

• 2003 ohn Howland Award] American Pediatric Society]
• 1990 National Medal of Science
  National Medal of Science
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.2006 George Kober Medal Association of American Ph6sicians
.2010 Honorary Doctor of Science Harvard University
.2011 Wallace Coulter Award American Society of Hematology