Dr. Schattner knows what it’s like on either side of the doctor’s desk.
Dr. Elaine Schattner is a trained oncologist, hematologist, educator and journalist who writes about medicine. Her views on health care are informed by her experiences as a patient with scoliosis since childhood and other conditions including breast cancer.
After graduating from Yale College she earned a medical degree at the New York University School of Medicine in 1987. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine and combined fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Prior to 2006, she cared for patients on the oncology unit, directed the hematology clinic and served as an attending physician at the hospital’s outpatient breast cancer center. As a faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College, she performed basic research in immunology and published papers on leukemia, lymphoma and rare blood disorders.
Dr. Schattner is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she teaches part-time. She holds an active New York State medical license and is board-certified in the Internal Medicine subspecialties of Hematology (blood diseases) and Oncology (cancer medicine).
She’s a wife and mother who likes to read, cook, swim and travel.
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