Linda Smith Resar MD

Dr. Linda Resar earned a bachelor of science from the University of Wisconsin and her medical doctorate with Honors in Research from the Medical College of Wisconsin after completing an accelerated, seven-year undergraduate-medical school program. As an undergraduate, she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She completed a pediatrics residency and fellowship training in hematology/oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. As a post-doctoral fellow, she trained in the laboratory of Dr. Chi Dang where she studied the Myc oncoproteins. In 1992, she was recruited to the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Nathans, a Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. In Dr.Nathans’ lab, she trained in basic cancer biology prior to establishing her independent laboratory in 1996. She was also awarded an NIH Physician Scientist Award to support her work with Dr. Nathans and to establish her independent research program.

Dr. Resar’s clinical expertise includes pediatric hematology-oncology, hematologic diseases in young adults and children, including sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies, hematologic malignancy, myeloproliferative disorders, immune-mediated thrombocytopenia, and other benign hematologic disorders. Dr. Resar also serves as the consultant hematologist for the Hopkins Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery, where she provides care for patients who wish to avoid transfusions.