We are pleased to welcome Dr. Daniel Couriel to the faculty in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies. Dr. Couriel, MD, MS, is the new director of the bone marrow transplant program.
Dr. Couriel received his MD degree in 1987 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. After fellowship training at Tufts University, NHLBI and Johns Hopkins University, he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham. In 1999 he moved to the M.D Anderson Cancer Center in the Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and in 2010 relocated to the Sarah Cannon Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in Nashville, TN where he was appointed as Director of the Allogeneic Transplant Program. In 2010 he moved to the University of Michigan Medical School where he served as Clinical Professor and Director of the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program. Dr. Couriel has a history of consistent funding and has more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles. His research interests are associated with new treatments and biomarkers for acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation journal and in addition he co-chairs the GVHD subcommittee for the CIBMTR, and the Ancillary and Supportive Care committee of a NIH Consensus Project on Chronic GVHD.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Couriel to University of Utah Health Sciences, to the School of Medicine, to the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, and to the Huntsman Cancer Institute.