Michael Keng, MD

Associate Professor

location_city UVA Health - Emily Couric Cancer Center

Specialities: Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Myeloproliferative Neoplasm

Spoken languages: English, Chinese

Clinical Expertise

Myelodysplastic syndromes
Myeloproliferative disorders
Acute myeloid leukemia
Chronic myeloid leukemia
Acute lymphoid leukemia
Aplastic anemia

Research Interests:: Dr. Keng focuses on clinical trials in hematologic malignancies, including myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemias. Special interest in treating the elderly population, determining optimal combinations and timing of targeted agents in MDS and leukemia, and studying patient safety and quality improvement.

About

Dr. Michael Keng holds a clinical faculty appointment in Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UVA Cancer Center. He practices at the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center in Charlottesville and serves as an inpatient hematologist at UVA Hospital.

His clinical areas of interest are: myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative disorders, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoid leukemia, and aplastic anemia.

He attended medical school at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He completed a fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014, where he served as chief fellow from 2013-2014. Dr. Keng joined the University of Virginia in 2014.

He lives with his wife and daughter and enjoys cooking, hiking, and travelling.