Program Overview

The Hematology/Oncology fellowship program at Loma Linda University Medical Center is a three-year program with a total of eight positions currently. In our recruitment efforts, we are committed to diversity and equal opportunity.

Program Highlights

• Our state-of-the-art hospital is a recognized leader in healthcare and one of the region’s two level 1 trauma centers providing nearly every specialty care to hundreds of thousands of patients every year.
• Our training sites provide an exposure to a diverse population of patients in a rapidly expanding area of Southern California.
• The fellowship program provides an excellent opportunity to obtain advanced training in clinical practice as well as clinical, translational and basic research in Hematology/Oncology.
• Fellows will rotate through Hematology/Oncology inpatient consult service, Hematology/Transplant and Cell Therapy (TCT) service, Ambulatory Care (including Pediatric and Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA) Hematology/Oncology), Hematopathology, Blood Bank, Molecular Pathology, Radiation Oncology, City of Hope Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Gynecologic Oncology and Palliative Care. 
• Fellows work closely with the TCT team at LLU which is the only institution to be fully accredited in the Inland Empire by the Foundation of Accreditation for Cellular Therapy (FACT) for adult and pediatric autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and immune effector cell therapy.
• Fellows gain exposure to novel therapeutic options such as gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies and Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
• Fellows are required to attend one-day longitudinal continuity clinic every week supervised by attending physician at one of the three training sites.
• Fellows will have ample months of protected research time to obtain hands-on experience in translational/clinical research, and write manuscripts, research protocols and grant proposals during 2nd and 3rd year.
• The program offers a strong didactic curriculum and access to ample educational resources. Fellows are expected to attend a series of multi-disciplinary conferences, didactic lectures and tumor boards and make presentations to enrich their training experience. 
• We offer a competitive benefits package to support a comfortable quality of life for our fellows.

We are dedicated to making you successful by providing you with a supportive and positive learning environment and advocate for your whole-person care so you can maintain work-life synergy.