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Clifford Selsky, Ph.D., MD

Medical Director of Hematology/Oncology

Dr. Selsky and his team offer children with cancer and blood diseases new hope through state-of-the-art treatments and new advances in medicine, including clinical trials. Treating a range of conditions, from brain tumors and hemophilia to leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anemia, Dr. Selsky also serves as the co-director of the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases.

In addition to being a board-certified pediatrician, Dr. Selsky is board certified as a pediatric hematology and oncology physician and has been successfully treating children in the greater Central Florida area for more than two decades at the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases. 

Education and Experience

Dr. Selsky is a graduate of the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in microbial genetics and molecular biology. Dr. Selsky earned his medical degree at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, and conducted his post-doctoral research at Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Stanford University Laboratory of Biophysics, Stanford, California. He served his pediatric medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, as well as his fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Yale University School of Medicine.

He is the principle investigator for clinical trials at the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute and a noted author of numerous research papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals and publications.