Dr. Heather Sutherland did her undergraduate training at the University of Saskatchewan, her clinical hematology fellowship at the University of Toronto, followed by a PhD at the Terry Fox Laboratory, University of British Columbia from 1986-1989. She has been a staff physician at the Vancouver General Hospital since 1990 and an Attending Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Staff Physician since 1991. Her clinical practice is now exclusively in this area with a focus on the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma in the outpatient department.
Dr. Sutherland has a special interest in growth and behaviour of myeloma cells and the development of novel therapies for multiple myeloma.
