Dr. Tsewang Tashi
Tsewang Tashi, MD, is an assistant professor in hematology and hematologic malignancies at the University of Utah and a hematologist at the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs hospital. Dr. Tashi joined the University of Utah faculty after completing his hematology/oncology fellowship in 2015. He received his medical degree from Chang Gung University, Taiwan, and completed his internal medicine residency both in Taiwan, and in the US from Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
His research and clinical interest lies in myeloid malignancies and currently sees and manages patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms, including systemic mastocytosis, and acute leukemias, both at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and serving the veterans at the George E. Whalen VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City. He established and currently leads the Mastocytosis Program at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital, which has been designated as Mastocytosis Center of Excellence. He also runs several clinical trials as the principal investigator in polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, systemic mastocytosis and acute leukemia. At the VA Medical Center, he is one of the lead hematologists and cares for all the veterans with acute leukemias, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms that are referred to Salt Lake City VA from different parts of the Intermountain West. He also leads several research projects.