Jessica W. Tsai, MD., PhD

Tsai, Jessica W
areas of interest
  • medical education
  • individual development plans
  • graduate student mental health 
  • neuroscience 
  • a good cup of Philz coffee
experience
  • MD/PhD – Resident Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard University
  • PhD, Stanford University 
  • MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • BS, Stanford University 

I grew up in California as a second generation Asian American and completed my undergraduate degree at Stanford University and her MD and PhD in Neurosciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where I was awarded a Graduate Public Service Fellowship. I completed my residency in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in 2018 and am board certified in Pediatrics.

I am now a 3rd year Fellow in Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplant at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. I am also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dana-Farber, studying oncogenic mechanisms underlying pediatric brain tumors. I serve as co-director of the STEM Education Advocacy Group. I have published articles in The New York Times, Science Careers, Nature Biotechnology, and Science.