| Is |
Scientist Researcher Oncologist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Academia Healthcare Science |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1952 |
| Age: | 68 years |
Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD (born 1960), is a research oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Taplin is Institute Physician and Director of Clinical Research for the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Cancer Center. At the Harvard Medical School, also in the Longwood Medical Area, she is Associate Professor of Medicine. She has been an investigator on many projects, including the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Consortium, Dana-Farber SPORE grant, Stand Up 2 Cancer, and several Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Grants.
At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, she chairs the Executive Committee for Clinical Research, and is Director of Clinical Research at the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology.
Career
Dr. Taplin received her MD in 1986 from the University of Massachusetts, Worcester. She completed a residency in internal medicine and chief residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and an oncology-hematology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston.
Dr. Taplin was on staff in medical oncology-hematology, first as an assistant and then associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts from 1993 to 2003, when she joined Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Chair, Executive Committee for Clinical Research; Director of Clinical Research, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology; Institute Physician
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Education
College
- Mount Holyoke College, 1982 (biochemistry)
Medical School
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
Residencies
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Chief Medical Resident
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Internal Medicine
Fellowship
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hematology/Oncology
Board Certification
- Hematology, 1996
- Medical Oncology, 1993
- Internal Medicine, 1989
Personal life
Dr. Taplin’s husband, whom she had met in medical school, died from a brain tumor in 2005. Their medical residencies were in the same city, and their first daughter was born during that time. She lives with their two daughters in Boston.
Additional references
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute profile for Dr. Mary Ellen B. Taplin
- DFCI Introductory video profile of Dr. Mary-Ellen Taplin
- U.S. News and World Report profile of Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD
- Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center profile of Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD
- Dr. Mary-Ellen Taplin on Treating Prostate/GU Cancers | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Published on December 8, 2015, by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- YouTube videos of Dr. Mary-Ellen Taplin explaining dynamics of cancer and cancer treatment
- Harvard Catalyst profile for Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD