Cecilia Fu, MD

Dr. Cecilia Fu is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine and is a member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Program within the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at CHLA. Her clinical and research activities have focused on the care of leukemia/ lymphoma patients, with particular research interest in relapsed pediatric leukemias and developmental therapeutics, infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), supportive care and late effects of cancer treatment. She is also invested in issues of health disparities and ethnic/racial diversity and efforts to improve the care of children of all children with cancer.

She is an active clinical researcher in the Children’s Oncology Group, serving on the Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, the APL and Diversity and Health Disparities Committees. She is on the study committee of several COG clinical trials. Dr. Fu graduated with honors from the University of Michigan and obtained her medical degree from Wayne State University. She completed her pediatric residency and pediatric hematology oncology fellowship training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

She has been involved for many years as a physician volunteer for Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a camp for children with cancer and their siblings.