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Dr. George Buchanan is Medical Director of the Center for Cancer and Blood disorders at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. A full time faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UT Southwestern), he is Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, and recipient of the Children’s Cancer Fund Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Oncology and Hematology.

Dr. Buchanan has practiced at Children’s and UT Southwestern since 1977. He has published over 250 scientific articles on various aspects of children’s blood diseases and cancer. One of his main clinical interests is immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in children. He is particularly known for his non-interventionist management approach to children with ITP and his interest in measuring the degree of bleeding, severity of treatment side effects, and overall burden of ITP on patients and their families.                     

Dr. Buchanan received his MD degree at the University of Chicago in 1970. He was a resident in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago from 1970 to 1973. From 1973 to 1975 he was a fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. He was an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School from 1975 until 1977, when he joined the UT Southwestern faculty. From September 1999 until May 2002 he was President of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO), the world’s largest professional society of children’s blood and cancer specialists. In 2007 he received ASPHO’s Distinguished Career Award. He has been Councillor, Nominating Committee Chair, and Executive Committee Member of the American Society of Hematology and has served on a number of NIH panels, committees, and working groups.

Dr. Buchanan has trained numerous physicians over the past 30 years to become pediatric hematology-oncology specialists. Some of his former trainees, who are now his colleagues in Dallas, also have a strong interest in children with ITP.