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Hakan Kaya, M.D.
Specialty: Hematology/Medical
Oncology
Primary Location:
601 S. Sherman, Spokane
Other Locations:
None
Dr. Hakan Kaya joined Cancer Care Northwest in May
2004. In addition to medical oncology and hematology, he
is a fellowship trained stem cell transplant physician.
He is the Director of Inland Northwest Autologous Stem
Cell
Transplant Program. Dr. Kaya has a special interest in
treatment of hematologic malignancies (multiple myeloma,
lymphoma, leukemia) and prostate cancer.
A 1993 graduate of Ankara University School of Medicine
in Turkey, Dr. Kaya completed his internal medicine
residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center. During his residency, he earned the special
Recognition Award in Poster Presentation with his
research in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation at
the American College of Physicians-Oklahoma Chapter
Annual Meeting in 1995, Best Poster Presentation Award
at the Department of Medicine House Staff Research Day
in 1996, and Chief Residents’ Award for Outstanding
Service to the Residency Program in 1997. Following his
residency, Dr. Kaya completed a three-year
fellowship in hematology, medical oncology, and stem
cell transplantation at the Comprehensive Cancer Center
of Wake Forest University in North Carolina. During his
fellowship, he studied new advances in prostate cancer
and published on the subject including a contribution to
the well-known textbook, Prostate Cancer: Principles &
Practice.
As a Clinical Faculty member with the University of
Washington School of Medicine Spokane Campus, Dr. Kaya
is an active teacher for residents and medical students.
In June 2007, he was honored by the Internal Medicine
Residency program of Spokane with the Outstanding
Clinical Faculty award for 2006-2007. Dr. Kaya is also
the recipient of the Assembly of Turkish American
Associations (ATAA) 2004 Outstanding Achievement in the
Arts/Sciences Award. In his spare time, Dr. Kaya, a
black belt, enjoys practicing tae-kwon-do. |
