Dr. Stephen Firshein is a hematologist on the Hartford Hospital medical staff. He earned a medical degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also finished post-doctoral work in hematology at Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Firshein is a clinical associate professor in the Hematology/Oncology Division at the University of Connecticut Medical School. He is also actively involved in the education of internal medicine residency at Hartford Hospital, where he is chief of hematology.