John M. Bennett, M.D. Dr. Bennett is Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Boston University. Postgraduate training included an internship at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, a residency in medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, a fellowship in hematology at Boston City Hospital and Tufts University. From 1963-1966 he was head of the hematology laboratories at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He served in the USPHS as Head of the diagnostic bone marrow laboratories in the NIH/Clinical Center from 1966-1968 in Hematopathology. He was the first Clinical Director of the University of Rochester Cancer Center (Wilmot), appointed in 1974; a position he held until 1995. Dr. Bennett has contributed close to 600 publications to the medical literature as well as several books and was Editor-in-Chief of the Leukemia Research Journal from 1993-2013. He is currently employed, part-time, in the Hematopathology Division, where he consults, daily, on the classification of Myeloid Neoplasms.