Dr. Christina Stevenson is a surgical oncologist with expertise in breast cancer and endocrine neoplasia, including tumors in the thyroid and adrenal glands, which she can remove with robotic-assisted surgery. She fellowship trained in surgical oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and completed her surgical residency training at Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia and the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. Her medical degree is from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery.

Dr. Jeffrey Wasser is a veteran hematologist and medical oncologist whose areas of expertise include immune thrombocytopenic purpura, a disorder that inhibits normal blood clotting and is associated with a low platelet count. He has been involved in practice guideline development and in clinical trials of new therapeutic agents for this disorder. He also has an interest in lung cancer, gastrointestinal malignancies and basal cell cancer of the skin. He joins the Health Center from Manchester Memorial Hospital, where he was medical director of the Eastern Connecticut Health Network’s Cancer Clinical Services Department. He has spent 30 years in the practice of medical oncology and hematology in Connecticut, and was a founding partner of a private practice in Manchester and Hartford.  He is an assistant professor who also is serving as medical director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Office.

Dr. Karen Hook, also a hematologist and medical oncologist, is a homegrown talent. She grew up in Plainville and is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the UConn School of Medicine. Her return to the UConn Health Center follows her postgraduate training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she finished as the chief fellow in the Division of Hematology/Oncology. Her areas of clinical expertise include anemia, blood cancers and platelet disorders. She also is an assistant professor of medicine.