Karen Ballen, MD

• Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Dr. Karen Ballen is a professor of medicine at UVA School of Medicine. She also serves as the chief of the division of hematology/oncology, and the medical director of the stem cell transplantation program at UVA Cancer Center.

Dr. Ballen received her undergraduate degree in history and literature from Harvard College and her doctorate from Dartmouth Medical School. She completed her medical residency at Beth Israel Hospital and a hematology/oncology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, MA. Before joining UVA's faculty in 2017, Dr. Ballen was the director of the Leukemia Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.