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Dr. Bertrand Y. Tuan
Current Title
1994 - Present
Hematologist-Oncologist
Pacific Hematology-Oncology Associates
California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
1993 - 1994
Emergency Room Physician
St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, MA
Malden Hospital, Malden, MA
New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, MA
Locum Tenems Hematology-Oncology for the practices of Barbara Bjornson, M.D. and Roberto Mattii, M.D.
Malden, MA
1992-1993
Associate Physician
Divisions of Experimental Medicine and Hematology/Oncology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
1989-1991
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
1988-1989
Clinical and Research Fellow in Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
1985-1988
Emergency Room Physician, Malden Hospital
Malden, MA
Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine,
Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA
EDUCATION
1985
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY
M.D.
1981
University of California
Berkeley, CA
A.B. In Biophysics with Honors
Updated: 9/10/09
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
Medical Oncology
Hematology
Internal Medicine
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Medical Oncology, 1993, 2003
- Hematology, 1992, 2002
- Internal Medicine, 1988
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners
California Medical License No. G078339
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1992-1993
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1989-1992
Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
1994
Medical Staff Member
California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
1993-1994
Medical Staff Member,
Malden Hospital, Malden, MA
New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, MA
Whidden Hospital, Everett, MA
1992-1993
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1989-1991
Clinical and Research Fellow in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Hematology
American Society of Clinical Oncology
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
1990-1993
Hematology/Oncology Research Fellow with Thomas Stossel, M.D. and David Kwiatkowski, M.D. , Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Study of the effects of overexpression of the actin binding protein Gelsolin and deletion mutants of gelsolin on cellular motility and cellular transformation
1984
Medical Student Research Associate with Karl Weisgraber, Oh. D., Gladstone Foundation Laboratories for Cardiovascular Research, University of California, San Francisco.
Developed an assay using oligonucleotides to detect Apolipoprotein E Genetic polymorphism.
1981
Research Associate with Karl Weisgraber, Ph. D. Gladstone Foundation Laboratories
Analyzed Apolipoprotein B structure
1980-1981
Senior Honors Thesis Research with Alex Nichols, Ph. D., Department of Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley.
Studied the effects of dietary cholesterol on electrophoretic patterns of baboon lipoproteins.
1979
American Hear t Association, California Affiliate Student Research Associate with H.S. Sodhi, M.D., Ph.D
Departments of Biochemistry and Cardiology, University of California, Davis.
Studied Effects of dietary cholesterol loading on human subjects.
BIOGRAPHY
Original Reports
Tuan, B., Kwiatkowsku, D.: Gelsolin, in Neuroscience Year : Supplement to the Encyclopedia Of Neuroscience.
Birkhauser Boston, 1993.
Lamb, J., Allen, P., Tuan, B. Janmey, P.: Modulation of Gelsolin Function: Activation at low ph overrides Ca2+
requirement, J Biol Chem 1993;268:8999.
Weinsgraber, K.H., Newhouse, N.Y., Taylor, J., Tuan, B., Newstruck, A.C., Davignon, J., Mahley, R.W.:
Apolipoprotein E2(Arq158-Cys) Frequency in a Hyperlipidemic French-Canadian Population of Apolipoprotein
E2/2 Subjects; Determination by Synthetic Oligonucleotide Probes, Arteriosclerosis 1989; 9(1):50-57.