DR. JEFFREY D. WHITE, M.D., DIRECTOR

Dr. Jeffrey D. White, M.D., Director, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Jeffrey D. White, M.D., holds a bachelors of science in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University, and an M.D. from Howard University. His internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology training was done at the Washington Hospital Center. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology.

In 1990, Dr. White came to NCI as a Medical Staff Fellow in the Metabolism Branch, where he performed preclinical and clinical immunology research with a focus on monoclonal antibody therapies for leukemias and lymphomas, predominantly adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. In 1997, he became the Director of the Branch’s Clinical Trials and Clinical Care Program. Dr. White is a member of the Ernest E. Just Biomedical Society.

In 1995, Dr. White became an oncology consultant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine. In October 1998, he was named the director of the newly formed OCCAM at NCI. OCCAM joined the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) in 2007.

Dr. White has been involved in mentoring students on many levels, including those in the Student Research Training Program and various minority high school programs. He has served as an attending physician at the Washington Hospital Center and as a visiting professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.