Dan Wechsler, MD, PhD has been an academic Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist for the past twenty years. Originally from Montreal, Canada, he received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his Medical and Doctoral degrees from McGill University. After completing his Pediatric Residency Training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1990, he undertook a Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins from 1990-1994.

He was a faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1994-2006 (being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2002), prior to moving to Duke University as Chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology in 2006. He was Director of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program from 1999-2006. He is actively involved in teaching medical students, residents and fellow trainees, delivering numerous didactic lectures each year; he has been invited to speak at several national pediatric board review conferences.

As a Member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), he has cared for hundreds of pediatric patients with cancer, with particular clinical and research interests in Neuroblastoma and Acute Myeloid Leukemia. His active research laboratory has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2001, and he served on an NIH Study Section from 2002-2008. He reviews Pediatric Cancer grant applications for Foundations including St. Baldrick's, Alex's Lemonade Stand, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society of Hematology, and reviews manuscripts for more than a dozen journals, also serving on the Editorial Board of Pediatric Blood & Cancer, the leading journal in the field. He has authored more than 35 publications, and presented more than 50 abstracts at national and international meetings. He has served on the COG Neuroblastoma Biology Committee (2002-present), and on the American Society of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology (ASPHO) Training (2002-2008), Program (2007-present) and Continuing Education (2009-present) Committees.