Peter
H. Blitzer, M.D., F.A.C.R., raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
has many family members in Wisconsin, where he did his undergraduate
studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He received
his medical degree in 1976 from the Medical College of Wisconsin
in Milwaukee and married a classmate, Eleanor Blitzer, M.D.,
a pediatrician.
After
medical school, he returned to Massachusetts for his residency
in Radiation Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, where he served as Chief Resident
in 1982. He then joined the University of Pennsylvania as
an Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology.
Dr.
Blitzer and his family relocated to Fort Myers in 1986 and
he has been with Radiation Therapy Regional Centers since
then.
Dr.
Blitzer is board certified in Therapeutic Radiology. He
also is on the Board of Chancellors of the American College
of Radiation Oncology and has served on a variety of committees
for the American College of Radiology, the American Society
fair Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, and the Radiation
Therapy Oncology Group. Locally, Dr. Blitzer belongs to
the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology, the Florida Medical
Association and the Lee County Medical Society.
He has
presented numerous research reports to the American Society
of Therapeutic Radiology as well as published over 30 articles
in scientific journals. Dr. Blitzer also has taught resident
physicians at the University of Miami Medical School and
has been appointed a Clinical Associate Professor there.
He has
enthusiastically assisted local cancer support groups, including
"I Can Cope" and "Man to Man." Dr. Blitzer also has served
on the board of directors of the Lee County Unit of the
American Cancer Society.
