Daniel Boxer, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology and Hematology) and cares for patients with a wide range of both benign and malignant hematologic disorders at Smilow Cancer Hospital in Trumbull and Fairfield. Conditions he treats include clotting and bleeding disorders, anemias, platelet and white cell disorders, obstetrical hematologic complications, iron disorders, genetic hematologic conditions, myeloproliferative neoplasms, myelodysplasia, leukemias, lymphomas, and plasma cell disorders.

Dr. Boxer received his medical degree from St. George’s University in Grenada and completed residency at Georgetown University Hospital where he served as Chief Medical Resident. He then was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown as a primary care physician and Assistant Director of the medical residency program. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at New York University, after which he spent over seven years at Norwalk Hospital caring for patients and served as head of the outpatient hematology-oncology elective for the medical residency program.

As a clinician-educator, Dr. Boxer has received multiple teaching awards and continues to have a passion for medical education. His prior research is in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare blood disorder.

Appointments: 203-502-8400