Thomas Patrick Duffy MD
Professor of Medicine (Hematology)

Departments & Organizations
Biomedical EthicsYale Medical Group
Cancer Center, Yale: Hematology Program
Internal Medicine: Hematology | Humanities in Medicine | Traditional Residency Program | Internal Medicine Clerkship
Clinical Interests
Leukemia; lymphoma; dysproteinemias; mastocytosis; hematologic aspects of systemic disease; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma
Education
- M.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1962
Selected Publication
- Noronha V, Burtness B, Murren J, Duffy TP. Oxaliplatin induces a delayed immune-mediated hemolytic anemia: a case report and review of the literature. Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2005 5(4):283-6.
Articles

Autumn 2007
From the library’s historical treasures
In 1543, when Andreas Vesalius published his text of the human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Seven...

Spring 2010
Back to the (not medical) boards
On two nights in January, in a lecture hall in the Jane Ellen Hope Building, a dozen students in medicine, public...
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Spring 2008
Striking a chord
In mid-December about 90 musicians—students and faculty in medicine and public health—took the stage in Harkness...
Spring 2006
Medical Complications During Pregnancy, 6th ed.
edited by Gerard N. Burrow, M.D. ’58, HS ’66, the David Paige Smith Professor Emeritus of Medicine and dean emeritus,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Art and medicine
During the first Tercentennial celebration weekend in late October, physicians and artists explored common ground...

Winter 2009
The lost art of the physical exam
Physicians once relied on seeing, hearing and touching a patient to make a diagnosis. Technology has enhanced and...

Autumn 2007
Taking the E-ROAD
A recent Yale graduate reflects on the desire of younger doctors for a fulfilling life outside of medicine.

Summer 2003
Showdown
When Ross M. Tonkens, M.D. ’74, arrived in Las Vegas in 1990, the gold rush was on. Casinos were expanding, the work...

Fall/Winter 2004
Reunion 2004
Even as all the traditional trappings of reunion—the Friday evening clambake, the Saturday morning symposium and the...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A changing of the guard for Humanities in Medicine
For the past 16 years, faculty, students and the general public have gathered in the Beaumont Room one or two evenings...

Autumn 2008
Celebration, loss and an exhortation to dream
Commencement was a day of mixed emotions for graduates in the Class of 2008. As they celebrated their own passage from...
Summer 2000
I Know What You Did Last Semester
Early in the first act of I Know What You Did Last Semester, the Class of 2002’s second-year show, a heckler in the...

Spring 2012
Salons bring faculty and students together for wine, books, and conversation
A few days after their return from winter recess, 10 second-year students piled onto a bus in front of the Sterling...

Spring 2012
Holocaust studies foster discussion of medical ethics
As medical student Jonathan Levin stood on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp at Birkenau, Germany, on a...
Spring 1999
Three students recognized
At a ceremony in May, students received awards for writing and community service. Claire Stylianopoulos, a first-year...



