UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Michael Drazer, MD, PhD
Michael Drazer, MD, PhD
UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Specialties
- Hematology and Oncology (Cancer)
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
- Crown Point, IN - Virginia Street
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Michael Drazer, MD, PhD, is a hematologist/oncologist and geneticist specializing in the care of people with blood disorders, blood cancers, hereditary blood disorders, and hereditary cancer syndromes. He runs one of the only clinics in the world focused on the care of people with hereditary blood cancer syndromes.
Dr. Drazer's laboratory research focuses on determining the mechanisms that drive hereditary blood and cancer syndromes, with a particular emphasis on developing "high fidelity" cellular and mouse models of these disorders. He is also heavily involved in the discovery of novel hereditary blood and cancer syndromes. His clinical research is largely focused on optimizing the care of people with hereditary blood and cancer syndromes, including the development of clinical bioinformatics pipelines that improve the diagnosis of patients with these syndromes. He is a member of multiple clinical disease groups at the University of Chicago.
An active researcher, Dr. Drazer's work has been featured in journals such as Blood, Blood Advances, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA, Haematologica, Leukemia, Cancer, Stem Cell Reports, and Genetics in Medicine. His work has been supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Edward P. Evans Foundation, the Cancer Research Foundation, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Drazer is also actively involved in the training of 21 hematology/oncology fellows within the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Drazer's laboratory research focuses on determining the mechanisms that drive hereditary blood and cancer syndromes, with a particular emphasis on developing "high fidelity" cellular and mouse models of these disorders. He is also heavily involved in the discovery of novel hereditary blood and cancer syndromes. His clinical research is largely focused on optimizing the care of people with hereditary blood and cancer syndromes, including the development of clinical bioinformatics pipelines that improve the diagnosis of patients with these syndromes. He is a member of multiple clinical disease groups at the University of Chicago.
An active researcher, Dr. Drazer's work has been featured in journals such as Blood, Blood Advances, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA, Haematologica, Leukemia, Cancer, Stem Cell Reports, and Genetics in Medicine. His work has been supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Edward P. Evans Foundation, the Cancer Research Foundation, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Drazer is also actively involved in the training of 21 hematology/oncology fellows within the Department of Medicine.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Acute Leukemia
- Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant (Bone Marrow Transplant)
- Anemias
- Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (Bone Marrow Transplant)
- Blood Cancers
- Blood Disorders
- Cancer Genetics
- Cancer Genomics
- Cancer Predisposition Syndromes
- Cancer Risk and Prevention
- CAR T-Cell Therapy
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
- Clinical Cancer Genetics
- Clinical Trials
- Cytopenias and other Marrow Disorders
- Developmental Therapeutics
- Hairy Cell Leukemia
UChicago Medicine Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine - Hyde Park5758 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago IL 606371-888-824-0200
Board Certifications
- Hematology
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Oncology
Practicing Since
- 2018
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.