David Vesole, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Myeloma Division and Director, Myeloma Research, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center
Director of the Myeloma Program, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University

David H. Vesole is co-director of the Myeloma Division and Director, Myeloma Research at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. Also, he is Director, Myeloma Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Previously, Dr. Vesole was director of the BMT Program at Loyola University in Maywood, IL, an attending physician at St. Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York, and Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

 

Board certified in medical oncology and hematology and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Vesole is active in several professional organizations including the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology. He previously served as co-chair of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Myeloma Committee and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) Plasma Cell Disorder Committee where he currently sits on the Nominating Committee. He is an inspector for the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) and serves on FACT's Clinical Standards, Accreditation and Data Management Task Force Committees. Additionally, Dr. Vesole is a member of the International Myeloma Foundation Scientific Advisory Board and the International Myeloma Working Group, a board member of the New York City chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and a reviewer, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Translational Grant Review Committee.

 

Dr. Vesole has authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and book chapters. He also serves as a reviewer for several journals, including the American Journal of Hematology, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplant, Bone Marrow Transplant, Leukemia, Leukemia and Lymphoma and Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia. Dr. Vesole has presented his research at medical meetings and symposia nationally and internationally.

 

David H. Vesole earned a medical degree at Northwestern University and a doctorate in immunology and microbiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. His postdoctoral medical training included a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.