Donald Abrams, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine
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+1 415 353-9740

Donald I. Abrams, M.D. is an integrative oncologist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He was Chief of Hematology-Oncology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General from 2003-2017. He graduated from Brown University in 1972 and from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1977. After completing an Internal Medicine residency at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, he became a fellow in Hematology-Oncology at UCSF in 1980. During his fellowship, Dr. Abrams spent eight months working in the retrovirology laboratory of Harold Varmus, M.D. during the time that the first cases of AIDS were being diagnosed. He subsequently returned to the clinical arena where he was one of the original clinician/investigators to recognize many of the early AIDS-related conditions. He conducted numerous clinical trials investigating conventional as well as complementary therapies in patients with HIV including therapeutic touch, Traditional Chinese Medicine interventions, medicinal mushrooms, medical cannabis and distant healing. He is considered to be a pioneer in the investigation of inhaled cannabis, having conducted studies funded by the NIH and the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research. His interest in botanical therapies led him to complete a two-year Fellowship in the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in December 2004. He co-edited the Oxford University Press textbook in Integrative Oncology with Andrew Weil, M.D.. Dr. Abrams was a long time member of the NCI PDQ Integrative, Alternative and Complementary Therapies Editorial Board and a past President of the Society for Integrative Oncology.

Publications

Novel Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor from A=3 Mirror Nuclei.

Physical review letters

Santiesteban SN, Li S, Abrams D, Alsalmi S, Androic D, Aniol K, Arrington J, Averett T, Ayerbe Gayoso C, Bane J, Barcus S, Barrow J, Beck A, Bellini V, Bhatt H, Bhetuwal D, Biswas D, Camsonne A, Castellanos J, Chen J, Chen JP, Chrisman D, Christy ME, Clarke C, Covrig S, Cruz-Torres R, Day D, Dutta D, Fuchey E, Gal C, Garibaldi F, Gautam TN, Gogami T, Gomez J, Guèye P, Hague TJ, Hansen JO, Hauenstein F, Henry W, Higinbotham DW, Holt RJ, Hyde C, Itabashi K, Kaneta M, Karki A, Katramatou AT, Keppel CE, King PM, Kurbany L, Kutz T, Lashley-Colthirst N, Li WB, Liu H, Liyanage N, Long E, Lovato A, Mammei J, Markowitz P, McClellan RE, Meddi F, Meekins D, Michaels R, Mihovilovic M, Moyer A, Nagao S, Nguyen D, Nycz M, Olson M, Ou L, Owen V, Palatchi C, Pandey B, Papadopoulou A, Park S, Petkovic T, Premathilake S, Punjabi V, Ransome RD, Reimer PE, Reinhold J, Riordan S, Rocco N, Rodriguez VM, Schmidt A, Schmookler B, Segarra EP, Shahinyan A, Širca S, Slifer K, Solvignon P, Su T, Suleiman R, Tang L, Tian Y, Tireman W, Tortorici F, Toyama Y, Uehara K, Urciuoli GM, Votaw D, Williamson J, Wojtsekhowski B, Wood S, Ye ZH, Zhang J, Zheng X, Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration

Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Adults With Cancer: ASCO Guideline.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Braun IM, Bohlke K, Abrams DI, Anderson H, Balneaves LG, Bar-Sela G, Bowles DW, Chai PR, Damani A, Gupta A, Hallmeyer S, Subbiah IM, Twelves C, Wallace MS, Roeland EJ

Revealing the short-range structure of the mirror nuclei 3H and 3He.

Nature

Li S, Cruz-Torres R, Santiesteban N, Ye ZH, Abrams D, Alsalmi S, Androic D, Aniol K, Arrington J, Averett T, Gayoso CA, Bane J, Barcus S, Barrow J, Beck A, Bellini V, Bhatt H, Bhetuwal D, Biswas D, Bulumulla D, Camsonne A, Castellanos J, Chen J, Chen JP, Chrisman D, Christy ME, Clarke C, Covrig S, Craycraft K, Day D, Dutta D, Fuchey E, Gal C, Garibaldi F, Gautam TN, Gogami T, Gomez J, Gu?ye P, Habarakada A, Hague TJ, Hansen JO, Hauenstein F, Henry W, Higinbotham DW, Holt RJ, Hyde C, Itabashi T, Kaneta M, Karki A, Katramatou AT, Keppel CE, Khachatryan M, Khachatryan V, King PM, Korover I, Kurbany L, Kutz T, Lashley-Colthirst N, Li WB, Liu H, Liyanage N, Long E, Mammei J, Markowitz P, McClellan RE, Meddi F, Meekins D, Beck SM, Michaels R, Mihovilovic M, Moyer A, Nagao S, Nelyubin V, Nguyen D, Nycz M, Olson M, Ou L, Owen V, Palatchi C, Pandey B, Papadopoulou A, Park S, Paul S, Petkovic T, Pomatsalyuk R, Premathilake S, Punjabi V, Ransome RD, Reimer PE, Reinhold J, Riordan S, Roche J, Rodriguez VM, Schmidt A, Schmookler B, Segarra EP, Shahinyan A, Slifer K, Solvignon P, ?irca S, Su T, Suleiman R, Szumila-Vance H, Tang L, Tian Y, Tireman W, Tortorici F, Toyama Y, Uehara K, Urciuoli GM, Votaw D, Williamson J, Wojtsekhowski B, Wood S, Zhang J, Zheng X

Interleukin-2 therapy in patients with HIV infection.

The New England journal of medicine

Abrams D, Lévy Y, Losso MH, Babiker A, Collins G, Cooper DA, Darbyshire J, Emery S, Fox L, Gordin F, Lane HC, Lundgren JD, Mitsuyasu R, Neaton JD, Phillips A, Routy JP, Tambussi G, Wentworth D

Integrative Oncology Practice Guidelines.

Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology

Deng GE, Cassileth BR, Cohen L, Gubili J, Johnstone PA, Kumar N, Vickers A, Abrams D, Rosenthal D, Sagar S, Tripathy D

CD4+ count-guided interruption of antiretroviral treatment.

The New England journal of medicine

El-Sadr WM, Lundgren J, Neaton JD, Gordin F, Abrams D, Arduino RC, Babiker A, Burman W, Clumeck N, Cohen CJ, Cohn D, Cooper D, Darbyshire J, Emery S, Fätkenheuer G, Gazzard B, Grund B, Hoy J, Klingman K, Losso M, Markowitz N, Neuhaus J, Phillips A, Rappoport C