Richard (rick) A. Van Etten MD, PhD

Professor Richard Van Etten is a fellowship-trained hematologist and oncologist who specialized in the treatment of leukemia and other blood disorders. After postgraduate training in internal medicine and hematology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute in Boston.

Dr. Van Etten went to become a physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and a faculty member in the departments of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School until he joined Tufts Medical Center as a professor of medicine. At Tufts, he held several positions, including the leader of the Hematologic Malignancies Program and member of the graduate programs in Genetics, Immunology, & Molecular/Cellular Physiology at Tufts University.