Department of Internal Medicine: The University of Iowa

Department of Internal Medicine

Fellowship Training Program in
Hematology and Medical Oncology

Steven R. Lentz, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Division Director
Roger Gingrich, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director, Fellowship Program

The Fellowship Program of the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation welcomed its first fellow in 1971 and, currently, invites 4 fellows to join the program each year. While it has always been a goal of the fellowship program to train academicians, it has also been recognized that high quality and durable relationships with hematology-oncology physicians in the surrounding area starts with practitioners being familiar with us and we being familiar with people in the practice. Accordingly, approximately one-third of hematology-oncology specialists in our referring area [Iowa and northwestern Illinois] were trained in our fellowship program. Approximately one-third of our graduates have pursued successful careers in academic institutions.