Department or Service
Department of Pediatric Medicine, Hematology-Oncology
Specialty
Hematology-Oncology
Primary Location
Texas Children's Hospital
Contact Information
1102 Bates
Ste. 1570
Houston, TX 77030
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Phone: 832-822-4556
David G. Poplack, M.D.
Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center - Texas Children's Hospital
Elise C. Young Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Deputy Director, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Head, Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Medical School
Boston University School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 1970
Internship
Stanford University School of Medicine, Pediatrics, 1971
Residency
Harvard Medical School, Pediatrics, 1972
Fellowship
NIH/NIAID, Hematology-Oncology, 1975
From Dr. Poplack
Dr. David Poplack is the Director of the Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Deputy Director of BCM’s Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center. He is Principal Investigator of an NCI K12 Pediatric Oncology Clinical Research Training Grant. Dr. Poplack has authored 357 original articles and book chapters relating to pediatric oncology and serves on the editorial board of numerous subspecialty journals. He is co-editor of Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology, the leading textbook of pediatric oncology, which is in its sixth edition. He has also served on numerous NIH, FDA and Institute of Medicine Committees. Dr. Poplack is a member of the National Cancer Institutes’ Board of Scientific Counselors.Selected Publications
Pizzo PA, Poplack DG: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology (Fifth edition) Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Blaney SM, Heideman, R., Berg S, Adamson P, Gillespie A, Geyer JR, Packer R, Matthay K, Jaeckle K, Cole D, Kuttesch N, Poplack DG, Balis FM. Phase I clinical trial of Intrathecal Topetecan in patients with neoplastic meningitis. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2003, 21: 143-147.
Margolin, JF and Poplack, DG. Review of article “What is the optimal therapy for childhood AML? Oncology 2002, 1069-1070.
Steuber CP and Poplack DG. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. In Rudolph CD, Rudolph AM, Hostetter MK, Lister G, Siegel NJ (eds). Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 21st Edition. New York. McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, pp. 1594-1600, 2002.
Bomgaars L, Chamberlain MC, Poplack DG and Blaney M. Leptomeningeal metastases. In Levin VA (ed). Cancer in the Nervous System, Second Edition. New York. Oxford University Press, pp. 375-396, 2002.
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