Fellowship Program

University Health Care Hematology/Oncology Fellowship program offers clinical training opportunities in hematology, oncology, bone marrow transplantation, and hematopathology.

For fellows with a primary clinical interest who are training for private practice, we offer a 2-year fellowship that leads to board certification in hematology or oncology. For fellows with academic interests in either basic or clinical investigation, we recommend the 3-year program that offers certification in both subspecialties. The latter half of this 3-year program would be spent on investigative pursuits by the fellow.

First-year fellows spend 3 months on each of the following services:

Inpatient University Hospital service,
Inpatient VA Medical Center service, and
University Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Service,

as well as additional time in:

Hematopathology and
Outpatient Clinics.

Second-year fellows can select elective rotations among:

pediatric hematology-oncology
gynecologic oncology
transfusion medicine
outpatient hematology-oncology clinic
radiation oncology

Fellows will devote a half-day weekly throughout their training to a clinic for a long-term patient care experience.

Additional activities include weekly conferences, including journal club, research conferences, tumor board, clinical didactic conferences, and microscopy sessions.

On occasion, our fellows have elected to do their research years in affiliated laboratories in the Department of Human Genetics, Biochemistry, Experimental Pathology, and Infectious Diseases in collaboration with a member of the Hematology-Oncology Division. Many fellows have opted for doing research in association with the Huntsman Cancer Institute, which has funding in excess of $150 million and provides resources for both basic science and clinical cancer studies.

Research opportunities

Cancer screening
Investigation of the genetic basis of hemochromatosis and porphyria
Transplantation immunology
Clinical and basic science aspects of cancer immunotherapy
Proteins which regulate translation of ferritin mRNAs
Structure-function relationships in metal binding proteins with particular emphasis on the copper binding protein, metallothionein
Regulation of expression of the cell surface receptor for diferric transferrin and the role that this receptor plays in iron recycling
Immunogenetics, tumor immunology and the molecular mechanism of selective localization of lymphocytes and bone marrow cells
Mechanisms of drug resistance in human cancer cells
The interaction of complement with cell surfaces
Transforming growth factors and their role in the pathogenesis of neoplasia
Role of vascular endothelium in regulation of coagulation
Gene mapping and isolation of precursor lesion genes in colon cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer