Dr. Heather Beckwith received her M.D. degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) in 2006.She did her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota.During her residency she worked on research in the laboratory of Dr. Douglas Yee investigating the tyrosine kinase inhibitor properties of BMS 554417 on the insulin-like growth factor receptor using the breast cancer cell line MCF-7.Dr. Beckwith entered the fellowship program in Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota in 2009.