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Peter Thomas Curtin M.D.
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
1500 DUARTE RD DUARTE CA, 91010About
Dr. Peter Curtin is a hematologist oncologist practicing in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Curtin specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY Medical Degree
North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC Other Degree
UC San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA Other Degree
Clinical Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Medical Degree
Professor of Medicine Medical Degree
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology- 1984
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1982
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology- 1985
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pooled analysis of 3 randomized, controlled trials of interleukin-2 therapy in adult human immunodeficiency virus type 1 disease.
- Autocrine stimulation by erythropoietin in transgenic mice results in erythroid proliferation without neoplastic transformation.
- Dissection of the enhancer activity of beta-globin 5' DNase I-hypersensitive site 2 in transgenic mice.
- A 24-base-pair sequence 3' to the human erythropoietin gene contains a hypoxia-responsive transcriptional enhancer.
- Regulation of human erythropoietin gene induction by upstream flanking sequences in transgenic mice.
Peter Thomas Curtin M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 3855 Health Sciences Drive #0960
3855 Health Sciences Drive #0960 Mail Code 0987 -La Jolla, CA 92093Get Direction
Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health - Cancer Care
9300 Campus Point Drive -La Jolla, CA 92037Get Direction
UC San Diego Health La Jolla - Moores Cancer Center - Leukemia and Lymphoma
3855 Health Sciences Drive -La Jolla, CA 92037Get Direction
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