Catherine Lai, MD, MPH

Position / Title
Associate Professor and Physician Leader of the Leukemia Clinical Research Unit
Institution
University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine

Dr. Lai's clinical expertise is in Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT). She specializes in autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants for the treatment of malignant and benign hematologic diseases in adult patients. She conducts her research in the Medicine Division of Hematology/BMT at the Huntsman Cancer Center. 

She specializes in detecting, monitoring, and treating acute leukemias and myeloid malignancies in adults. Previously at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, she focused on clinical trials: Clinical research is at the heart of all medical advances, identifying new ways to prevent, detect or treat disease. If you have a bone marrow failure disease, you may want to consider taking part in a clinical trial, also called a research study. Understanding Clinical Trials Clinical… in acute leukemias.

Physician Status
Practice Location

Abramson Cancer Center, Parelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
West Pavillion, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States