Meet our Doctors

Dr. Lynda Foltz

MD, FRCPC

Dr. Foltz completed medical school, internal medicine residency training and hematology subspecialty fellowship at UBC. She practiced hematology for two years at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster before joining the Division of Hematology at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver in 2007. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Division of Hematology and was appointed Head of the St. Paul's Hospital Division of Hematology in 2013. Her area of special interest is myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). She is a principal investigator for MPN clinical trials and is a founding and executive member of the Canadian MPN Group.

Dr. Heather Leitch

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Dr. Leitch is a Hematologist at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada and Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Leitch's clinical and research interests include transfusional iron overload in acquired anemias such as the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and a longstanding interest in lymphoproliferative and other blood disorders in the setting of HIV infection. She is Director of Hematology/Oncology Research at St. Paul's Hospital, a reviewer of scientific papers for several medical journals and an active member of the UBC Department of Medicine Equity and Research Advisory Committees.

Dr. Khaled Ramadan

MBBCh, MRCPI, FRCPath, FRCP, FRCPC

Dr. Ramadan received his medical degree in 1997 and completed his training in internal medicine in Ireland where he obtained his certificates from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI) in 2000 and certificate of completion of General Professional Training (GPT) in Internal Medicine. He completed his clinical hematology and hematological pathology training in the UK with Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists of UK (MRCPath) granted in 2004. In 2008, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of the UK (FRCPath). He then went on to do a clinical and research fellowship in lymphoma, leukemia and bone marrow transplant in Vancouver from August 2005 to December 2006. He joined the Division of Hematology at St. Paul's Hospital in January 2007. He currently holds an appointment at UBC as a Clinical Assistant Professor. Dr. Ramadan is very dedicated to clinical research, and has 18 peer-reviewed publications in mainstream hematology/oncology journals. He has clinical and research interest in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.