Our Doctors

Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Appelbaum is the Executive Director of SCCA. His work centers on the biology and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

H. Joachim Deeg, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Deeg treats people with blood cancers, like leukemia. He believes patient care involves teamwork and requires a long-term commitment for the patient and physician. Read more about Dr. Deeg and his work at SCCA.

Mary E. Flowers, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Flowers is director of the Adult Clinical Care Long-Term Follow-Up Program and cares for transplant patients long after they leave the clinic. Read more about Dr. Flowers and her work at SCCA.

Leona A. Holmberg, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Holmberg is a medical oncologist who treats patients for lymphoma, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, and ovarian cancer. Read more about Dr. Holmberg and her work at SCCA.

Paul V. O'Donnell, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology

Dr. O'Donnell is the medical director of the Adult Transplant Service and is also a researcher in the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, working on leading-edge research using alternative donors for bone-marrow transplantation.

Rainer F. Storb, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Storb concentrates his research efforts on bone marrow transplantation. Although he works primarily in the lab, he spends two months working with patients at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and two weeks on consult service.

Robert P. Witherspoon, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Witherspoon is the Transplant Clinic Medical Director. He is a medical oncologist and an expert at bone-marrow transplantation for treatment of hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic disease.

Merav Bar, MD

Bone Marrow Transplantation,Hematology Oncology

Antonio Bedalov, MD, PhD

Hematology Oncology

Dr. Bedalov is a hematology oncologist who treats people with blood disorders, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndrome.

Bruce E. Clurman, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology

Steven J. Collins, MD

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Dr. Collins is an attending phyisician in the Transplant Clinic.

Matthew L. Fero, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Fero is a medical oncologist who treats patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and myelodysplastic syndrome.

George E. Georges, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Georges is a medical oncologist who treats people who have blood disorders like leukemia, lymphoma, and myelodysplastic syndrome.

Ajay K. Gopal, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Gopal is a medical oncologist with a specialty in lymphomas.

Boglarka Gyurkocza, MD

Bone Marrow Transplantation,Hematology Oncology

Dr. Gyurkocza cares for people with blood disorders and cancers. If necessary, treating with bone marrow transplantation.

John A. Hansen, MD

Bone Marrow Transplantation,Medical Oncology

Dr. Hansen works in the clinical research division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center whose work involves studying genes that play critical roles in regulating cellular immune responses and immunity.

Hans-Peter Kiem, MD, FACP

Hematology Oncology

Dr. Kiem conducts preclinical and clinical studies of gene therapy. His clinical interests are hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, and graft-versus-host disease.

Maxwell Krem, MD, PhD

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Dr. Maxwell Krem specializes in caring for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants.

Stephanie J. Lee, MD, MPH

Hematology

Dr. Lee is a hematologist who treats people with leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

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.

Jack M. Lionberger, MD, PhD

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Dr. Lionberger is a medical oncologist who cares for adults with leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

Keith R. Loeb, MD, PhD

Laboratory Medicine

Dr. Loeb cares for patients with blood cancers who may require treatment with bone marrow transplantation.

Paul J. Martin, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Martin is a medical oncologist who specializes is treating patients with bone marrow transplantation.

Marco Mielcarek, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Mielcarek is an oncologist who cares for patients who receive stem cell transplants for treatment of hematologic cancers.

Richard A. Nash, MD

Hematology Oncology

Dr. Nash provides patient care at SCCA for patients who need stem cell transplants. Read more about Dr. Nash and his work at SCCA.

John M. Pagel, MD, PhD

Internal Medicine,Medical Oncology

Dr. Pagel specializes in stem cell transplantation for leukemia and lymphoma treatment.

Effie W. Petersdorf, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Petersdorf is an oncology specialist pursuing research to understand MHC gene function using hematopoietic cell transplantation from unrelated donors as a model system.

Stephen H. Petersdorf, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Petersdorf is an oncology specialist practicing at UW Medine specializing in bone marrow transplantation.

Jerald P. Radich, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Radich is a medical oncologist who specializes in molecular genetics of leukemia and the detection of minimal residual disease.

Gunnar Bjarni Ragnarsson, MD, MSc

Dr. Ragnarsson cares for patients who have lymphoma or leukemia.

Aravind Ramakrishnan , MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Ramakrishnan is a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Myeloproliferative Disorders.

Stanley R. Riddell, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Riddell is an expert at treating lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome with bone marrow transplantation.

Brenda M. Sandmaier, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Sandmaier is a medical oncologist who treats patients with hematologic malignancies including leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndrome. Her focus of research is in the area of reduced intensity transplantation and the use of alternative donors.

F. Marc Stewart, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Stewart is an oncologist and the Medical Director of SCCA. He believes it is a great honor to care for patients in ways that deliver state-of-the-art therapy together with empathy, compassion, and respect.

Derek L. Stirewalt, MD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Stirewalt is a medical oncologist specialising in bone-marrow transplant and other leukemia treatments. His research focuses on molecular genetics of the aging hematopoietic system and its role in leukemia.

Brian Till, MD

Dr. Till specializes in autologous stem cell transplantation to treat lymphoma and multiple myeloma, as well as adoptive T cell therapy clinical trials for lymphoma.

Cameron J. Turtle, MD, PhD

Hematology Oncology

Dr. Turtle is a hematology oncologist who specializes in treating blood diseases with bone marrow transplantation.

Edus Houston Warren, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology

Dr. Warren is a medical oncologist specializing in leukemia and bone marrow transplant.