October 22, 2013
Dr. Andrew Schafer has been appointed director of the Richard T. Silver, M.D. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) Center at Weill Cornell Medicine.
MPNs encompass four main blood diseases: chronic myeloid leukemia or CML, in which bone marrow manufactures too many white blood cells; polycythemia vera, characterized by too many red blood cells; essential thrombocythemia, defined by excess platelets; and primary myelofibrosis, scarring of the bone marrow.
Learn more about Dr. Schafer's appointment.