Clinicn Investigator, Asst Prf Genetics Program, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School

Pediatrician Pediatrics-Pediatric Hematology Oncology/Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Washington University 1989

BS with Honors Stanford University 1982

PhD Washington University School of Medicine 1989

iqsec2; leukemia; leukemic bone marrow niche; pitt hopkins syndrome; rare and undiagnosed diseases

Dr. Sweetser received his B.S. in Biological Science with Honors from Stanford University in 1982, his M.D./Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by a Pediatric Residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Clinical Genetics and Biochemical Genetics Fellowships at Washington University and the University of Washington in Seattle.

He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Richard Palmiter, and a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He started a Research Program in Leukemia Genetics at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he attended on the Bone Marrow Transplant Service prior to moving to Massachusetts General Hospital in 2003.

He continues clinical work in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology as well as in Medical Genetics and became Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics and Metabolism at Mass General in 2011.