Aram Hezel, associate professor of medicine, has been appointed as the John and Ethel Heselden Professor and chief of Hematology/Oncology. Hezel retains his joint appointments as associate professor of biomedical genetics and as associate professor of oncology.
Hezel’s clinical focus is on treating patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancers including those of the pancreas and liver. He is focused on clinical research testing new therapies in gastrointestinal malignancies and on the genetics and biology of primary pancreatic and biliary tract tumors. His research has appeared in Cancer Research, Cell Reports, Nature, and the British Journal of Cancer among other publications.
Hezel is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, as well as the American Association for Cancer Research, and his work is supported by the National Cancer Institute.
Hezel, a graduate of Vassar College, received his MD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2000. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Boston followed by fellowship at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Partners Oncology/Hematology Program and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Hezel came to Rochester in 2009 from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.