Member Biographical Information

Dr. James O. Armitage graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1973 where he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine in 1975. In 1977 he completed a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. Armitage was in private practice from 1977-79, and in 1979 he returned to the University of Iowa as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, where he developed and was director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program. In 1982 he returned to Nebraska as as Associate Professor of Medicine and was promoted in 1987 to Professor of Medicine. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine (1982-90), Chief of the Division of Oncology/Hematology (1986-89), Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine (1990-99), Dean, College of Medicine (2000-03), and presently holds the position of the Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine. He is a member of several professional organizations as well as an editor of the ASCO publications ASCO Post and Journal of Oncology Practice.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians and ASCO.  He has served as President of ASCO (1996-97) and President of ASBMT (2000-01). He has authored or co-authored over 500 articles, over 100 book chapters, and is the editor/co-editor of 27 books.