Harold Burstein, MD, PhD
Dr. Harold J. Burstein is a medical oncologist and clinical investigator specializing in breast cancer. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Institute Physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Burstein attended Harvard College, and earned his MD at Harvard Medical School where he also earned a PhD in immunology. In addition, he holds a master’s degree in history of science from Harvard. He trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a fellow in medical oncology at Dana-Farber before joining the staff.
Dr. Burstein’s clinical practice is devoted entirely to breast cancer patients. His clinical research interests include novel treatments for early- and advanced-stage breast cancer, and studies of quality of life and health behavior among women with breast cancer. Dr. Burstein has written widely on breast cancer in both traditional medical journals and on the web. Representative publications of Dr. Burstein’s can be found in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and other leading medical journals. He serves on international committees focusing on cancer treatments including the NCCN Breast Cancer Panel, The St. Gallen Breast Cancer Panel, and the Alliance Breast Cancer Committee. He is co-chair of the ASCO guidelines on endocrine therapy for breast cancer, and associate editor for cancer education at the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Burstein teaches students, house staff, and fellows at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and affiliated training hospitals.