Kushner, James P., M.D.

Dr Kushner received his B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1957 and his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh 1962. Dr Kushner completed his internship at Rush-Presbyterian St Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois in 1962-1963 and his residency training at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1965-1967. Dr Kushner came to the University in 1967 as a Clinical Fellow in Hematology. From 1969-1970, Dr Kushner was a Research Fellow in Hematology. Dr Kushner was appointed Professor of Medicine in 1983 and served as Chief of Hematology-Oncology Division from 1987-1997. In 1997, Dr Kushner became Chief of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies when the Division was split, serving in that capacity until 2003. Dr Kushner was Director of the Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology from 1994-2000 and then again from 2005-2011. From 2006-2011, Dr Kushner was Associate Program Director of the Huntsman General Clinical Research Center. Dr Kushner was the M.M. Wintrobe Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the time of his retirement in 2011 as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine.