M.D.
Hematologist-Oncologist
John H. Baird, M.D., is a hematologist-oncologist who specializes in treating patients with lymphoma and leukemia at City of Hope® Cancer Center Duarte.
Dr. Baird was inspired to pursue a clinical career after realizing that his time with patients was what he enjoyed most about his early training in biomedical engineering. For him, being both a physician and a researcher offers the best of both worlds: providing compassionate, personalized care to patients across Southern California while also helping to improve cancer treatments through his clinical research.
Dr. Baird completed his medical education at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, followed by internship and residency training at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He then pursued a fellowship at Stanford University, where he focused on medical oncology, hematology and blood and marrow transplantation.
His research is focused on developing innovative cellular therapies for blood cancers, including CAR T cell therapies, which reprogram a patient’s own immune cells to find and attack cancer cells.