Terri Parker, MD, is a hematologist and assistant medical director at the Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center in North Haven.

Dr. Parker treats patients with plasma cell dyscrasias, including multiple myeloma, and related diseases such as AL amyloidosis, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), plasma cell leukemia, smoldering multiple myeloma, and Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.

“These are all disorders where the primary abnormality is in the plasma cell. Plasma cells are a type of white blood cell,” Dr. Parker explains. “I was drawn to hematology because it isn’t just one organ system involved. It touches on everything. And I love the continuity of care it provides as I get to know my patients.”