Michael G. Douvas, MD

PRIMARY APPOINTMENT:

Associate Professor, Medicine: Hematology and Oncology

CONTACT:

PO Box 800716
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Telephone: 434-982-6399
Fax: 434.243.6086
Email: mgd9a@virginia.edu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• Internship, Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Residency, Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• AB, Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• MD, Medicine, University of Virginia
• Chief Residency, Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Clinical Fellowship, Pediatric Hematology, and Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Clinical Fellowship, Adult Hematology, and Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Research Fellowship, Hematology and Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Clinical research in hematologic malignancies, fertility preservation, and quality improvement.

RESEARCH SUMMARY:

Dr. Douvas participates in clinical research primarily through the Hematologic Malignancy Clinical Research program headed by Dr. Michael E. Williams. He is a principal and co-investigator on several clinical trials for leukemia, lymphoma, and sarcoma patients. He is board-certified in Adult Hematology and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. He is a co-investigator on Children’s Oncology Group clinical research protocols about caring for young adults with cancer. He also has research projects in symptom management in young adults/adolescents with cancer and fertility preservation.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

• Dunlap NE, Woodford RL, Shoushtari AN, Reibel JF, Douvas MG, Cousar JB, Read PW, Primary nasopharyngeal interdigitating dendritic cell tumor presentation and response to radiation therapy., 2010; Rare tumors. 2(1) e9. PMID: 21139954 | PMCID: PMC2994498
• Aregawi DG, Sherman JH, Douvas MG, Burns TM, Schiff D, Neuroleukemiosis: case report of leukemic nerve infiltration in acute lymphoblastic leukemia., 2008; Muscle Nerve. 38(3) 1196-200. PMID:
• Gorczynski MJ, Grembecka J, Zhou Y, Kong Y, Roudaia L, Douvas MG, Newman M, Bielnicka I, Baber G, Corpora T, Shi J, Sridharan M, Lilien R, Donald BR, Speck NA, Brown ML, Bushweller JH, Allosteric inhibition of the protein-protein interaction between the leukemia-associated proteins Runx1 and CBFbeta., 2007; Chem Biol. 14(10) 1186-97. PMID: