Medical Center Lecture Series

Please join us on April 7 for the final lecture of the season: “Stem Cell & Immunotherapy: Miami Cancer Institute’s Global Journey,” presented by Guenther Koehne, M.D., Ph.D., of Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Koehne’s lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in the Cultural Center Theatre. Dr. Koehne is an internationally renowned expert in the application of stem cell transplantation for the treatment of leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, multiple myeloma and other lymphoproliferative diseases. He serves as the Institute’s Deputy Director and Chief of Stem Cell Transplantation in Hematologic Oncology and Benign Hematology. Before joining the Institute in 2017 he was a leading physician in adult bone marrow transplantation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is recognized for his work in adoptive immunotherapeutic approaches and the development of novel treatments for high-risk multiple myeloma, minimal residual disease of leukemia and relapsed-disease, post-allogeneic stem cell transplantation. As a physician and scientist, Dr. Koehne has led the development and growth of the Cancer Institute’s outpatient and inpatient blood and bone marrow transplant program, and is involved in numerous groundbreaking clinical trials. When asked about his most memorable patients, Dr. Koehne says he had the opportunity to treat police officers and firefighters who were exposed to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — the dust and consequences of which caused many to develop a form of leukemia. He treated more than 10 of these first responders to control and cure their disease. Dr. Koehne is Board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. He received his medical degree and Ph.D. from Medical University of Hamburg, Germany, where he also trained as a resident in internal medicine. He completed an additional internal medicine residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. His extensive training also includes a medical oncology/hematology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a research fellowship in the Immunology program at Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research’s Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation Service. Please join us following the lecture for a physician’s cocktail reception. For more information about this and past lectures, visit the Medical Center Lecture Series page. This lecture is graciously sponsored by Baptist Health South Florida.