Daniel Wechsler, MD, PHD

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Director, Pediatric Oncology

Emory University School of Medicine – Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Wechsler is the director of pediatric oncology at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and specializes in the treatment of childhood leukemia. He previously served as associate professor of pediatrics, and pharmacology and cell biology at Duke University School of Medicine. The primary focus of Dr. Wechsler’s laboratory is an investigation of the pathogenesis of CALM-AF10 leukemias. They were the first to describe a translocation between MLL and CALM genes in an infant with acute myeloid leukemia, and from this stemmed their interest in understanding the more common CALM-AF10 leukemias.

Dr. Wechsler earned his MD and PhD in Physiology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He completed his residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.