Jerome Appelbaum, M.D.
Senior Consultant
Diversity Training-Workplace Solutions, Inc.


Dr. Jerome Appelbaum graduated Hobart College were he received a B.A. cum laude with High Honors in Philosophy and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was working towards his Ph.D in philosophy at Princeton University when he decided to become a physician and obtained his medical degree from the University of Rome, Italy. He subsequently became an Internist and did his Hematology training as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Appelbaum was amongst the very first to practice Medical Oncology in Brooklyn. He became chief of Oncology at Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn). During that time he was the Principal Investigator for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, receiving grants from the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society to train oncology residents and general physicians. He later became Chief of Oncology at the Community Hospital of Brooklyn and was on the staff of the North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, New York). From 1985-1990 he worked at Rockefeller University as a Guest Investigator in the Laboratory of Cell Biology headed by Professor Günter Blobel, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Following that he was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Dr. Appelbaum retired as a Clinical Associated Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in 1997. He has published articles and written chapters in textbooks in areas of clinical and basic research.