Melvin Tefft
{{short description|American physician}}
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Melvin Tefft (20 November 1935 - 11 May 2003), was an American physician who specialised in radiation oncology in children at the Boston Children's Hospital and later at the Massachusetts General Hospital.{{cite web |title=Melvin H. Tefft Obituary |url=https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/24385333/melvin-h-tefft |website=www.tributearchive.com |access-date=20 June 2022 |language=en}} He was the first to report an extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma in 1969.{{cite journal |last1=Veselis |first1=Clinton A. |last2=Awan |first2=Omer |last3=Thomas |first3=Ashanth |last4=Ling |first4=Stephen |last5=Jonnalagadda |first5=Padmaja |last6=Aneja |first6=Amandeep |last7=Ali |first7=Sayed |title=Bone Tumors Occurring in the Soft Tissues: A Review of the Clinical, Imaging, and Histopathologic Findings |journal=Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology |date=May 2021 |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=419–429 |doi=10.1067/j.cpradiol.2020.06.004 |pmid=32665061 |s2cid=220530415 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32665061/ |issn=1535-6302 |access-date=2022-06-20 |archive-date=2021-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330234145/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32665061/ |url-status=live }}
Early life and education
Melvin Tefft was born on 20 November 1935 in Boston.{{cite journal |last1=Chougule |first1=Prakash B. |title=In Memoriam: Melvin Tefft, MD |journal=Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |date=November 2003 |volume=25 |issue=11 |pages=839 |doi=10.1097/00043426-200311000-00002 |url=https://journals.lww.com/jpho-online/Citation/2003/11000/In_Memoriam__Melvin_Tefft,_MD.2.aspx |issn=1077-4114|url-access=subscription }} In 1954 he received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and in 1958 gained a medical diploma from Boston University School of Medicine.
Career
Tefft completed his internship at Boston City Hospital before taking up his residency in radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also spent a year as a NIH fellow. Through the 1960s, at the Boston Children's Hospital, he progressed from assistant professor to chief of the division of radiology. He was influenced by Giulio D'Angio.
In 1970, he was at the Massachusetts General Hospital.{{cite book |last1=Suit |first1=Herman D. |last2=Loeffler |first2=Jay S. |title=Evolution of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital |date=2011 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4419-6743-5 |pages=43–54 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xL44oNwJsXgC&dq=Melvin+Tefft+radiation&pg=PA43 |language=en |chapter=4. The new department of radiation oncology}}
Selected publications
- {{cite journal |last1=Tefft |first1=M. |last2=Vawter |first2=G. F. |last3=Mitus |first3=A. |title=Paravertebral "round cell" tumors in children |journal=Radiology |date=June 1969 |volume=92 |issue=7 |pages=1501–1509 |doi=10.1148/92.7.1501 |pmid=5799839 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5799839/ |issn=0033-8419}}
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Category:Physicians from Boston
Category:Boston University School of Medicine alumni
Category:Physicians of Massachusetts General Hospital
Category:Harvard College alumni
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