Peter C. Enzinger, MD

Peter C. Enzinger, MD, is an oncologist in the Department of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center.

Dr. Enzinger’s major research interest centers on the treatment of esophageal and gastric cancers, particularly the development of novel therapies for metastatic disease and the improvement of therapeutic strategies for localized disease. He is leading the effort to create clinical and correlative science collaborations for these diseases and is establishing standard pathways to be used by clinicians for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of these malignancies. In addition, he lectures regionally and nationally on topics related to esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and other GI malignancies.

Dr. Enzinger is a graduate of Brown University College and Brown University Medical School. He served his residency in Internal Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, and completed fellowships in Medical Oncology and Hematology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in 1999.