H. Kent Holland, M.D., is board certified in the subspecialties of oncology and hematology, is Medical Director of the Blood & Marrow Transplant Program and Co-Director of the Stem Cell Processing Laboratory at Northside Hospital. Dr. Holland completed his specialty fellowship training and was a faculty member on the bone marrow transplant program at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center from 1985 to 1991. He was subsequently recruited to serve as the Co-Director of the Bone Marrow Processing Stem Cell Hemapheresis Center at Emory University School of Medicine, where he was Associate Professor of Medicine in the bone marrow transplant program. He was senior principal investigator for the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer and multiple myeloma disease at Emory University School of Medicine. He serves as an inspector for FACT, the national organization that inspects and accredits bone marrow transplant programs nationally. His undergraduate training was at Duke University and he graduated with honors at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Holland completed his residency at Cornell University Medical Center and Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and his fellowship in bone marrow transplantation at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He remained on faculty at Johns Hopkins and was the Assistant Director of the Hemapheresis Center.

Dr. Holland is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, the American Association of Blood Banks, the International Society for Experimental Hematology and the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplant.

He has authored and co-authored nearly forty research articles in professional journals including Blood, the American Journal of Medicine, Supportive Care in Cancer, Cancer Investigations, Bailers Clinical Hematology, Transfusion, Bone Marrow Transplantation, the American Journal of Hematology, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Hepatology and the Journal of the American Medical Association.