Our Doctors
The doctors and specialists at SCCA are among the best in the nation and have access to the latest therapies and treatments. Patients at SCCA are taken care of by nurses who specialize in their disease and by a group of doctors and specialists who meet regularly to discuss a patient's options.
There are at least nine doctors and faculty members on the blood disorders team, including radiation therapists and transplant experts. Nutritionists, nurse managers, and a patient care coordinator are also part of the team.
Janis L. Abkowitz, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Abkowitz treats patients with multiple myeloma and other blood cancers.
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Pamela S. Becker, MD, PhD
Hematology
Dr. Becker is a hematologist who treats people with blood disorders, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndrome.
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C. Anthony Blau, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Blau is a hematology oncologist who treats people with blood disorders, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndrome.
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Nicholas Burwick, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Burwick specializes in treating plasma cell disorders including MGUS, multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, and amyloidosis.
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John C.H. Byon, MD, PhD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Byon cares for patients with blood cancers and other blood disorders with an emphasis on the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (polycythemia vera, essential thrombocytosis, myelofibrosis). His research interests include the role of microRNAs in normal blood formation and microRNA dysregulation in MDS.
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Terry B. Gernsheimer, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Gernsheimer treats patients with blood disorders like thrombocytopenia (low platelets), anemia, and excessive bleeding and clotting. She has an interest in transfusion medicine.
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Paul Hendrie, MD, PhD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Hendrie is a hematology specialist who treats patients for blood disorders, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndrome.
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William E. Hobbs, MD, PhD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Hobbs is a hematology specialists and the director of the Adult Sickle Cell Disease Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/UW Medicine. He is an assistant member at the Puget Sound Blood Center - Research Institute with a research program in Sickle Cell Disease, vascular biology, and hemostasis/thrombosis. He is also an acting assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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Siobán Bridget Keel, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Keel is a hematology specialist and an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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Barbara A. Konkle, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Konkle is a hematologist who cares for patients with bleeding or clotting disorders.
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Edward N. Libby, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Libby is a hematologist/oncologist who cares for patients who have multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, amyloidosis, and indolent lymphomas.
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Michael L. Linenberger, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Linenberger cares for people who have anemia, bleeding and thrombotic disorders, low platelets, sickle cell disease, iron overload, myeloma, leukemia, lymphoma, myelodysplasia, and myeloproliferative disorders.
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Andrei R. Shustov, MD
Hematology Oncology
Dr. Shustov specializes in treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, including cutaneous lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and acute and chronic leukemias.
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