Roy Kao, MD

Biography

Dr. Kao graduated from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and completed combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at ChristianaCare and Nemours Children's Hospital in Delaware, chief residency in internal medicine at ChristianaCare, pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and adult hematology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. As a UCLA faculty member, he practiced pediatric hematology/oncology at Mattel Children's Hospital in Los Angeles and Miller Children's and Women's Hospital in Long Beach. After adult hematology fellowship, he has continued as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota specializing in non-malignant hematology and the use of hematopoietic cell transplantation and gene therapy for a variety of diseases, including aplastic anemia, bone marrow failure, and the hemoglobinopathies. He also co-directs the Hematology Course in the University of Minnesota Medical School's integrated preclinical curriculum.