Robert A. Dracker, MD, MHA, MBA, CPI, a Pediatrician with Summerwood Pediatrics
Get to know Pediatrician Dr. Robert A. Dracker, who serves patients in New York.
Dr. Dracker is a board-certified pediatrician and the Medical Director of Summerwood Pediatrics in Liverpool and Camillus, New York. Summerwood Pediatrics is a well established, progressive practice caring for children from birth to 22 years of age. The team of board-certified physicians, nationally-certified nurse practitioners, and NYS licensed nurses working there provide cutting-edge health care to patients in a friendly, welcoming environment. They believe that assisting parents in being well-informed and confident as caregivers for their children, is critical to a child’s health and well being.
Prior to his current position at Summerwood Pediatrics, Dr. Dracker served as Medical Director of the Transfusion Medicine Service at University Hospital for five years. He also founded Infusacare Medical Services, which provides adult and pediatric patients with currently standard and emerging outpatient intravenous therapies.
After earning his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in 1982, Dr. Dracker completed a residency in pediatrics and fellowships in pediatric hematology/oncology and blood banking/transfusion medicine all at University Hospital in Syracuse. He later earned his master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from the New School for Social Research, and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia College in 2007.
In addition to being board-certified in pediatrics and transfusion medicine, Dr. Dracker is also certified in managed care medicine and in quality assurance and utilization review, with sub board certification in managed care review. Moreover, he is a certified physician investigator and a member of the American Association of Blood Banks, the Blood Banks Association of New York State, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the American Society for Apheresis, the Onondaga County Medical Society, the Onondaga County Pediatric Society, the American Society of Hematology, the Parenteral Drug Association, the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the International Society of Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering, the International Cord Blood Society, and the Association for Vascular Access – among others.
Actively involved in the area of cord blood banking and stem cell transplant, Dr. Dracker was the Medical Director of The Biocyte Corporation, which facilitated the first cord blood transplant in the United States. He was also the Medical Director of ViaCord in Cambridge, Massachusetts, up until May of 2007. For 17 years, he served on the NYS Governor’s Council for Blood and Transfusion Services. What’s more, he served as a member of the Pediatric Advisory Committee of the FDA.
Serving on a number of professional and charitable boards, Dr. Dracker has presented worldwide on many topics regarding pharmaceutical parenteral therapies, clinical research, as well as a variety of pediatric policies and stem cell therapy. He is actively involved in ongoing basic science and clinical research, particularly involving vaccine therapies, and has well over 50 abstract and article publications.
At present, he is a member of the Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Committee for the New York State Department of Health, as well as the Co-Chairman of the Heart, Lung, and Cancer Committee for the Medical Society of the State of New York. He is also the Executive Medical Director of Americord, based in New York City.
Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. As a pediatrician, Dr. Dracker examines, diagnoses, and treats children of all ages with a wide variety of injuries and illnesses. He understands that children change rapidly and that they must be approached with an appreciation for their stage of physical and mental development.
Learn More about Dr. Robert A. Dracker:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/1844383-Robert-Dracker-pathologist-Liverpool-NY-13088 or through Summerwood Pediatrics, https://www.summerwoodpediatrics.com/staff
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