Orkin, Stuart

DR. STUART H. ORKIN is the David G. Nathan Professor at the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and is chairman of pédiatrie oncology at the Dana—Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard, as well as being investigator at the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston. There are currently 13 postdoctoral fellows, one graduate student, and one undergraduate working under Orkin at Harvard University.

Stuart H. Orkin was the younger son of Dr. Lazarus Allerton Orkin (1910–91) and Sylvia (née Holland). Lazarus Orkin was a graduate from New York University and former chief of urology at the Beth Israel Medical Center who taught at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He was also the author of Trauma in the Ureter, published in 1964, which ...