David Steensma, MD

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA The great experimental physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) provocatively claimed, “All science is either physics … or stamp collecting.” Lord Rutherford intended his cocky quip as a jab at the geologists, chemists, and biologists of [...]

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA The first time I ate bone marrow was, fittingly, shortly after I spoke on marrow failure at a conference in Milan, where osso bucco with saffron risotto is a local specialty. The tiny, back-alley [...]

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Despite the [...]

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA After years of attending the ASH annual meeting, I’ve come to understand my meeting-related emotional cycle well enough to avoid taking it too seriously. Each December, I rotate through a set of five now-predictable [...]

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA When a shocking historic event occurs, many can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the terrible news. I, too, can recall intimate details of awful incidents like [...]

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA When did your interest in crossword puzzles start? Did you enjoy puzzles growing up? My mother has long been an avid “cruciverbalist” – a crossword puzzle aficionado. In 1977, when I was in elementary [...]

David Steensma, MDSenior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA During their presentations, MHM speakers will be asking the audience how they would respond to patient cases. Audience members will vote live at the meeting via an audience response system, but we want to [...]