Dr. Robert Chen received his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School Chicago, Illinois. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and his hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor and Staff Physician in the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope (COH) in Duarte, California. At COH, Dr. Chen is also the Co-Leader of the Lymphoma Disease and Early Phase Therapeutic Disease Teams; Associate Director, Phase I/II Trials in Malignant Hematology; and Associate Director of Phase I/II Trials in Malignant Hematology.

Dr. Chen holds memberships in the American Society of Hematology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Association for Cancer Research, and the Rocky Mountain Oncology Society (Colorado), among others. In addition, he is an NCCN Hodgkin lymphoma panel member, on the SWOG lymphoma working group, and is associate chair, Cedar Park Regional Medical Center (CPRMC). He is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Biology of Bone and Marrow Transplantation, Oncogene, Plos, Leukemia Research, Lymphoma and Leukemia, Clinical Lymphoma and Myeloma, as well as the American Society of Hematology.