Ellis J. Neufeld, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed clinical director, physician-in-chief and executive vice president of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Neufeld’s appointment will begin in March 2017.
In this role, Neufeld will oversee the organization’s academic clinical departments and all clinical operations. The appointment comes as St. Jude launches a focused effort to increase the number of cancer patients treated at its campus and on protocols around the world.
An internationally respected leader in pediatric hematology, Neufeld comes to St. Jude from Boston, where he served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for the last 26 years. He was most recently associate chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. Neufeld was also medical director at the Boston Hemophilia Center and held the Egan Family Foundation Chair in Transitional Medicine at Harvard Medical School as a professor of pediatrics.
Neufeld completed his undergraduate work at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, earning his doctoral degrees at Washington University in St. Louis. He then completed specialty training in pediatrics and medical genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and in pediatric hematology/oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s.