• Myelofibrosis

Dr. Schafer received his B.A. from Northeastern University in 1969 and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago and his clinical and research fellowships in hematology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (formerly Peter Bent Brigham Hospital) and Harvard Medical School. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, rising to Associate Professor of Medicine, until 1989 when he was appointed Chief of Medicine at the Houston VA Medical Center, Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rice University in Houston. Dr. Schafer then served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Baylor from 1996 to 2002, when he was recruited to his medical school alma mater to become the Frank Wister Thomas Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He came to Weill Cornell and New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 2007, and served as the E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Physician-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Well Cornell Medical Center until 2013.