Elaine A. Muchmore, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of California, San Diego. She is also Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Chief of the Education Service and of the Section of Hematology/Oncology at the VA Medical Center in San Diego.
Dr Muchmore received her medical degree from the University of California, Davis, and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, Washington, and fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at UC San Diego. She serves as Fellowship Program Director of the Hematology/Oncology training program, and is active in multiple professional organizations, concentrating on educational issues. She has co-directed an annual Training Program Director Symposium for the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting for several years, is the ASH representative to the AAMC Council of Academic Specialties and the council of the Association of Specialty Professors. She represents the VA on the board of the AAMC Group on Resident Affairs.
Dr Muchmore’s research interests involve studying intracellular processing of an immunogenic cell surface sugar moiety that humans do not synthesize, but which is the primary sugar moiety on cells of all other mammals.
