Peter Greenberg, MD

As Director of the Stanford MDS Center, Dr Greenberg has an active clinical practice focusing on myelodysplastic syndromes myelodysplastic syndromes: (my-eh-lo-diss-PLASS-tik SIN-dromez) A group of disorders where the bone marrow does not work well, and the bone marrow cells fail to make enough healthy blood cells. Myelo refers to the bone marrow. Dysplastic means abnormal growth or development. People with MDS have low blood cell count for at… (MDS) and clonal myeloid disorders. His clinical research clinical research: A type of research that involves individual persons or a group of people. There are three types of clinical research. Patient-oriented research includes clinical trials which test how a drug, medical device, or treatment approach works in people. Epidemiology or behavioral studies look at the… involves design and coordination of clinical trials clinical trials: Clinical research is at the heart of all medical advances, identifying new ways to prevent, detect or treat disease. If you have a bone marrow failure disease, you may want to consider taking part in a clinical trial, also called a research study. Understanding Clinical Trials Clinical… using experimental drugs with biologic focus for both lower and higher risk MDS patients not responding to standard therapies. He is Coordinator of the International Working Group for Prognosis in MDS (IWG-PM) which generated the revised MDS classification system (the IPSS-R) and the impact of molecular mutations for a risk-based prognostic system, the IPSS-Molecular (IPSS-M). He is Chair of the NCCN Practice Guidelines Panel for MDS. His prior laboratory investigations included biologic studies of MDS-related myeloid progenitor cell proliferation as well as mutational and transcriptomic evaluation of gene expression profiles contributing to prognosis in MDS. His current investigations include evaluation of ex vivo drug sensitivity methods for identifying potentially useful and often novel therapeutic drugs for patients with myeloid neoplasms refractory refractory: Not responsive to treatment or cure. For example, refractory anemia is a low red blood cell count that doesn't respond to standard treatments. to standard therapies.