James N. George MD
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OklahomaDr. George graduated with an MD degree from Ohio State University in 1962 and then trained in internal medicine and hematology at Vanderbilt University, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the University of Rochester, 1962-1970. He began his faculty career at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio in 1970, moving to the University of Oklahoma in 1990 where he was Chief of the Hematology-Oncology Section, 1990 to 1999. Throughout his career, his research has focused on platelets. Since moving to Oklahoma, he has focused on understanding acquired and hereditary thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). In 2005, he served as president of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). In 2012, he received the ASH Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. He is currently George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.