Stephen Ansell

Stephen M. Ansell, M.D., Ph.D. is a consultant in the Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr. Ansell currently serves as chair of the Mayo Clinic Lymphoma Disease-Oriented Group and chair of faculty development and recruitment for the Division of Hematology. He joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in 1999 and holds the academic rank of professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.

Dr. Ansell earned his M.B.,Ch.B., and Ph.D. degrees at University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa, where he also completed an internship in internal medicine and surgery, a residency in internal medicine, and a fellowship in medical oncology. Dr. Ansell continued his education at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where he was a registrar in internal medicine. He came to the United States and completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Ansell’s research focuses on investigating the phenotype and activity of intratumoral T cells and developing strategies to modulate the T-cell infiltration in B-cell lymphoma. Further areas of research interest include the development of biologic therapies for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. He is associate editor of the American Journal of Hematology and serves on the Editorial Board for Blood, Blood Cancer Journal, JAMA Oncology and Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Ansell also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leukemia& Lymphoma Society (LLS), the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) and the International Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Foundation (IWMF).