Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD

Dr. Shimamura cares for children with bone marrow failure diseases and conducts research to find treatments to improve the lives of children with these diseases.

Title

• Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
• Attending Physician, Seattle Children's

Clinical Expertise

Inherited bone marrow failure syndromes and aplastic anemia
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, Fanconi anemia and Diamond Blackfan anemia

Experience

• Board Certified Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Education And Training

• MD: University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
• Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
• Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston