saad usmani, MD, MBA, FACP

board member

Chief, Plasma Cell Disorders Program
Director, Clinical Research in Hematologic Malignancies
Levine Cancer Institute/Atrium Health
Charlotte, North Carolina
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dr. Saad Usmani received his medical education at Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore, Pakistan. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Sinai-Grace Hospital/Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut. Dr. Usmani is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, Chief of the Plasma Cell Disorder Program, and Director of Clinical Research in Hematologic Malignancies at the Levine Cancer Institute/Atrium Health.

Dr. Usmani is a member of the International Myeloma Working Group, SWOG Myeloma Committee, American Society of Hematology (ASH), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and the American Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation. He also serves on the ASCO Scientific Committee on Lymphoma and Plasma Cell Disorders, the ASH Committee on Plasma Cell Neoplasia, and the NCI Myeloma Steering Committee. Dr. Usmani is on the editorial review board of numerous medical journals, has authored/co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed research manuscripts and 100 abstracts at national and international meetings. A specialist in hematology, medical oncology and bone marrow transplantation, Dr. Usmani’s clinical and translational research has been focused on plasma cell disorders, specifically high-risk multiple myeloma.