Mary-Ellen B. Taplin

Mary-Ellen B. Taplin, MD (1962- ), is a research oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dr. Taplin is Institute Physician and Director of Clinical Research for the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and at the Brigham and Women's Hospital’s Cancer Center. At the Harvard Medical School, also in the Longwood Medical Area, she is Associate Professor of Medicine. She has been an investigator on many projects, including the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Consortium, Dana-Farber SPORE grant, Stand Up 2 Cancer, and several Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Grants.

At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, she chairs the Executive Committee for Clinical Research, and is Director of Clinical Research at the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology.^[1]

Career

Dr. Taplin received her MD in 1986 from the University of Massachusetts, Worcester. She completed a residency in internal medicine and chief residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and an oncology-hematology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston.^{[citation needed]}

Dr. Taplin was on staff in medical oncology-hematology, first as an assistant and then associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts from 1993 to 2003, when she joined Dana-Farber Cancer Institute^[2].

Education

College

Mount Holyoke College, 1982 (biochemistry)

Medical School

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Residencies

University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Chief Medical Resident
University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Internal Medicine

Fellowship

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hematology/Oncology

Personal Life

Dr. Taplin's husband, whom she had met in medical school, passed away from a brain tumor in 2005. Their medical residencies were in the same city, and their first daughter was born during that time. She lives with their two daughters outside Boston.^[3]

References

Additional References

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[1] Genitourinary Cancer Treatment Center at DFCI

[2] Solid Tumor Oncology research group atr DFCI Department of Medical Oncology/

[3] Mount Holyoke College profile on Dr. Mary-Ellen Taplin, 82

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