Ruemu E. Birhiray, MD
Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation
St. Vincent Hospital
Hematology-Oncology of Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana


Ruemu E. Birhiray, MD is an attending physician in medical oncology, hematology, and hematopoietic cell transplantation at Hematology-Oncology of Indiana, and director of Bone Marrow Transplantation at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his medical degree from the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria. After completing his internal medicine residency at Columbus Hospital in Chicago, he was a postgraduate fellow in bone marrow transplant at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Current projects for which Dr Birhiray is principal investigator include reduced intensity allogeneic transplantation in hematologic malignancies, and a trial of Interferon A, CHOP, and rituximab therapy in advanced-stage follicular lymphoma.

A member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, and the American Medical Association, Dr Birhiray has published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Leukemia, and Therapeutic Apheresis.