UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Photo of Christopher C. Dvorak, MD  Christopher C. Dvorak, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF

Contact

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(415) 476-0554 (voice)
(415) 502-4867 (fax) (fax)

Box 1278, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1278

Education

University of California at San Diego, BS, 1994, Molecular Biology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, MD, 1998, Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine, Intern, 1999, Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine, Resident, 2001, Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine, Fellow, 2005, Hematology/Oncology

Professional Experience

  • 2001-2002
    Staff Physician, Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Stanford University
  • 2002-2004
    Staff Physician, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
  • 2005-2007
    Clinical Instructor, Division of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation, Stanford University
  • 2007-present
    Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, UCSF Children's Hospital

Honors & Awards

  • 1990-1994
    Regents Scholar, University of California at San Diego
  • 2002-2005
    Arline & Pete Harman Pediatric Fellow, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

Selected Publications

  • Mayer ML, Conrad TR, Dvorak CC. Hospital resource utilization among patients with sickle cell disease. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2003; 14(1): 122-35.
  • Dvorak CC, Steinbach WJ, Brown JMY, Agarwal R. Incidence and outcomes of invasive fungal infections in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2005; 36(7): 621-9.
  • Dvorak CC, Sanders RP, Dahl GVH, Donaldson SS, Razzouk, BI. Treatment of relapsed promyelocytic leukemia with low-dose antimetabolite-based chemotherapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2007; 48: 582-5.
  • Sutherland S, Hong DK, Balagtas J, Gutierrez K, Dvorak CC, Sarwal M. Liposomal amphotericin: an unrecognized cause of severe hyperphosphatemia. Pediatr Inf Dis J. 2007 (accepted).
  • Dvorak CC and Cowan MJ. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for primary immunodeficiency disease (Invited Review). Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007 (accepted).

Updated: September 21, 2010