Nancy Berliner, MD, is Chief of Hematology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her areas of interest include anemia, leukemia, DNA diagnostics, and transcriptional regulation of myelopoiesis.

Dr. Berliner received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and completed medical residency and fellowship in hematology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She was the first woman to serve as medical Chief Resident at the Brigham. She then spent over 20 years on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, where she became Professor of Medicine and Genetics. She returned to the Brigham in 2007 to assume the leadership of the Hematology Division.

Dr. Berliner was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1994 and served as Vice President in 1995. She was a Stohlman Scholar of the Leukemia Society. In 2005, she was named one of the “Best Doctors” in the New York Metropolitan area. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Berliner has served on the ASH Program Committee, which oversees the ASH annual meeting, and is a veteran of the Executive Committee, having served as Secretary from 2001 - 2004. She was a contributor to the first ASH Self-Assessment Program, has served as Education Program Chair, and was Editor of the 2006 ASH Education Program Book. She has also served on several ASH scientific committees and on the editorial board of Blood. Most recently, Dr. Berliner served as Co-chair of ASH’s 50th Anniversary Publications Working Group.

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