Roni Tamari, MD

Dr. Tamari is a board-certified hematologist hematologist: (hee-muh-TOL-uh-jist) A doctor who specializes in treating blood diseases and disorders of blood producing organs. and oncologist oncologist: (on-KAH-luh-jist) A doctor who specializes in the treatment and prevention of cancer. specializing in the use of stem cell transplantation to treat patients with hematologic malignancies (cancers that arise from blood cells). She works as part of a multidisciplinary team of transplantation specialists who treat patients with these diseases.

As a clinical researcher, Dr. Tamari's work focuses on identifying risk factors associated with relapse after allogeneic stem cell transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome and acute muyelogenous leukemia. Together with her colleagues she is developing protocols for early post-transplant intervention to prevent relapse.