He obtained his medical degree at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and completedresidency in Internal Medicine at Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. Following this, Dr. Pantin completed fellowships in Hematology, Medical Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. During his fellowship, he developed small and large animal models of intrabone hematopoietic-cell transplantation. His research interests include immune tolerance and graft-versus-host disease. His original work was presented at national meetings of the American Society of Hematology and the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.