David G. Nathan

David Gordon Nathan is an American pediatrician and hematologist. He is known for his authorship of Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood, a standard reference in pediatrics, currently in its seventh edition. Nathan remains an author on the current edition.
Now retired, he was Robert A. Stranahan professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and served as president of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.

Biography

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 26, 1929. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Nathan was given the John Howland Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Pediatric Society, in 2003.

Awards and honors

2003 John Howland Award
1990 National [Medal of Science]
2006 George Kober Medal Association of American Physicians
2010 Honorary Doctor of Science Harvard University
2011 Wallace Coulter Award American Society of Hematology