Chief of Hematology
Hematology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
David Kuter, MD, DPhil is Chief of Hematology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Boston, USA. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his DPhil in Biochemistry while a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford, UK, before obtaining his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Dr Kuter divides his time between medical education of fellows and medical students, clinical care of patients with a wide range of haematological disorders, basic science investigation into thrombopoietin and megakaryocyte biology, and clinical research related to thrombopoietic agents and hemolytic anaemia. His basic science group was one of the laboratories that discovered thrombopoietin and his clinical research group carried out various seminal studies using thrombopoietic agents in transfusion medicine and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). A member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), Professor Kuter is the recipient of a number of awards including the Irving London Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School, the Alfred Kranes Teaching Award at Massachusetts General Hospital, the 2008 and 2010 Douglas Family Foundation Prize – Recognizing Excellence in Hematology-Oncology Research at the MGH Cancer Center, the Jane Grier Memorial Prize – Recognizing Excellence in Hematology-Oncology Teaching at the MGH Cancer Center, the 2013 Earnest Beutler Award from the American Society of Hematology, the Thomas R. Spitzer Outstanding Clinician Award at the MGH Cancer Center and the 2023 MacFarlane-Biggs Plenary Lectureship of the British Society of Haematology/British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis. He has given over 700 invited lectures in over 50 countries and served as a Visiting Professor in Beijing, Sydney, Tokyo, London, Durham, Little Rock, Tianjin, Melbourne and New Haven. Professor Kuter has authored or co-authored over 350 articles published in international, peer-reviewed journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Blood.