Susan Tannenbaum, M.D. has been appointed the new chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine and the clinical director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health.
“Dr. Tannenbaum is a great leader and will bring renewed energy to the Division of Hematology and Oncology,” said Cheryl Oncken, M.D., M.P.H., professor and interim chair of the Department of Medicine at UConn Health.
“Dr. Tannenbaum takes the helm of the Division at a juncture that is pregnant with excellent possibilities,” said Pramod K. Srivastava, Ph.D., M.D., professor in the Departments of Immunology and Medicine and director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health. “She will be a good steward and leader of this propitious moment.”
“This position is a culmination of my entire career,” said Tannenbaum. “I now have the opportunity to expand the excellence of our clinical operations, grow our hematology-oncology faculty programmatically as well as their academic enhancement, and help support the growth of our fellowship training program.”
Tannenbaum is a New York native and spent much of her educational career there. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and graduated medical school in 1978 from the State University of New York. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx where her final year was spent as the chief resident.
She later trained at University of Pennsylvania for her fellowship in hematology-oncology. She spent the next nine years at the National Institutes of Health, studying endothelial cell biology as it relates to the coagulation system. She also became a clinical officer in hematology, assisting in the care of complicated study patients throughout the hospital. She then worked at the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, followed by seven years in private practice in Pasadena, California.
With her roots in the east and her desire to blend her career into an academic setting, she moved in 2003 to UConn Health to work in the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center and its Division of Hematology-Oncology.
Tannenbaum’s research and clinical interests have now turned to survivorship to enhance the lives of cancer survivors. The Connecticut Breast Health Initiative (CTBHI), a breast cancer philanthropic program, has funded her work to grow multidisciplinary collaborations for UConn Health’s breast program, her clinical area of expertise.
To learn more about the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health, visit: http://health.uconn.edu/cancer/.
