Scott Peslak

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Dr. Scott Peslak graduated from the University of Scranton in 2006 with a double major in Biochemistry and Philosophy. He received his MD/PhD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2014 and subsequently completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. He is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and cares for patients in the UPenn Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program and Comprehensive Adult Thalassemia Program. In addition to his clinical focus on red cell disorders, he also performs research in the laboratory studying novel regulators of fetal hemoglobin and new genetic and pharmacologic therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease.