John M. McCarty, MD
Medical Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Member, Massey Cancer Center
VCU Medical Center
Richmond, Virginia

John M. McCarty, MD is the medical director for the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at VCU Medical Center and a member of the Massey Cancer Center’s Hematologic Malignancy Multidisciplinary Group in Richmond, Virginia. Dr McCarty received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. He completed his residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and then went on to complete his fellowship in hematology and bone marrow transplantation at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.

Dr McCarty’s clinical research focuses on reduced intensity hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and immunotherapeutic approaches to malignant and non-malignant disorders. Other areas of interest include transplant strategies in myelodysplasia and myeloproliferative syndromes and supportive measures in transplantation, including cellular immunotherapy for graft-versus-host disease. Dr McCarty is principal or co-investigator for a number of ongoing clinical protocols.

Dr McCarty is a member of the Wellpoint Center Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Excellence Review Committee and the Blood Disorders and Myeloproliferative Diseases Committee for the congressionally directed peer-reviewed medical research program. In addition, he is a reviewer for a number of journals and has published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts, review articles, editorials, and research abstracts in journals such as Blood, New England Journal of Medicine, Seminars of Hematology, PNAS, and Journal of Immunology and Experimental Hematology. Dr McCarty has presented his research at the American Society of Hematology, the Tandem Bone Marrow Transplantation Meetings, and at the European Bone Marrow Transplantation meetings, as well as numerous invited professorships and grand rounds throughout the country.