Last Updated: 04/06/07
Dr. Jeffrey D. White, M.D.
Director
Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Dr. Jeffrey D. White, M.D., Director, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Jeffrey D. White, M.D., holds a bachelors of science in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University, and an M.D. from Howard University. His internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology training was done at the Washington Hospital Center. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology.
In 1990, Dr. White came to NCI as a Medical Staff Fellow in the Metabolism Branch, where he performed pre-clinical and clinical immunology research with a focus on monoclonal antibody therapies for leukemias and lymphomas, predominantly adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. In 1997, he became the director of the Branch’s Clinical Trials and Clinical Care Program. Dr. White is a member of the Ernest E. Just Society.
In 1995, Dr. White became an oncology consultant to the NIH’s Office of Alternative Medicine. In October 1998, he was named the director of the new NCI Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The Office joined DCTD in 2007.
Dr. White has been involved in mentoring students on many levels, including those in the Student Research Training Program and various minority high school programs. He has served as an attending physician at The Washington Hospital Center and as a visiting professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.
