Kirsten M. Boughan, DO, a Hematologist-Oncologist with VA Medical Center Cleveland

Get to know Hematologist-Oncologist Dr. Kirsten M. Boughan, who serves patients in Cleveland, Ohio.

An excellent hematologist-oncologist, Dr. Boughan is in practice at the VA Medical Center in Cleveland Ohio.

With a broad educational background, she earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2010, and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2013. She then went on to complete her fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2016, and her fellowship in bone marrow transplant at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2017.  She worked in the department of blood and bone marrow transplant at UH Medical Center in Cleveland from 2017-2021 prior to joining the VA.

Passionate about her profession, the doctor is board-certified in hematology, medical oncology, and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), which is an organization that provides board certification to qualified Doctors of Allopathic and Osteopathic Medicine who specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease in adults.

Remaining up to date in her field, Dr. Boughan is an active member of the American Society of Hematology, and the American Society of Oncology.

Hematology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. A hematologist-oncologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of cancer, malignant blood diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, and blood disorders such as iron-deficiency anemia, clotting abnormalities, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, and a rare hematologic related syndromes, and diseases.

Learn More about Dr. Kirsten M. Boughan:
Through her findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/2076047-Kirsten-Boughan-Internist

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