Jeffrey Y. Ahn, MD

Dr. Gol M. Golshani is a triple board-certified UCI Health medical oncologist and hematologist. She earned her medical degree from St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies, followed by a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology/oncology, both completed at SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island, New York. As a generalist, Golshani sees benign blood disorders, malignant hematological and solid tumor pathologies like lung, gastrointestinal and genitourinary cancers. She has a personal clinical interest in women’s health, with a focus on breast and gynecologic cancers. She also incorporates holistic care planning for patients, focusing on improving and maintaining quality of life, including cancer prevention and survivorship. Golshani has authored publications in immunotherapy and colorectal cancer and has presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

At the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center — Laguna Hills, we help you fight cancer on all fronts. As the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Orange County, we treat more patients with cancer — and more complex cases — than any other healthcare provider in our region. At Laguna Hills, services include benign hematology, clinical trials, hematology oncology, infusion, medical oncology and surgical oncology. Our multidisciplinary team of world-class oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, pathologists, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, social workers and dietitians works together seamlessly to treat cancers of all types and degrees of severity. Our cancer experts are also available to provide second opinions.

Dr. Richard Van Etten is a board-certified, fellowship-trained UCI Health hematologist and oncologist who specializes in the treatment of leukemia and other blood cancers. His clinical focus also includes hematopoetic stem cell transplant services. He is the director of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he leads a team of more than 250 physicians, basic and translational scientists conducting cancer research at UC Irvine. Van Etten received a medical degree and a PhD in biophysics from the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he worked with biochemist David F. Clayton, PhD, on the molecular genetics of mammalian mitochondrial DNA and brain development. He went on to complete a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology at Harvard School of Medicine and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. Next he worked as a visiting scientist in the lab of Nobel laureate David Baltimore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute in Boston. He joined the Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital as a faculty member of the departments of Medicine and Genetics. In 2003, he became a professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and director of the Hematologic Malignancies Program at Tufts Cancer Center, eventually becoming chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology. In 2009, he was named director of the Tufts Cancer Center. Van Etten became director of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center on Oct. 1, 2013 and a professor of Medicine and Biochemistry in the UCI School of Medicine. Under his leadership, the cancer center's comprehensive cancer center designation has been renewed twice by the National Cancer Institute. He is the author of more than 150 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters. His research lab, which is funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute, investigates the molecular pathogenesis of leukemia and myeloproliferative neoplasms with an emphasis on dysregulated tyrosine kinases and mouse model systems.