Mrs. Mary Jo K. Voelpel, DO, MA, FACOI, FACNM / Specializing in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

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Get to know Hematologist-Oncologist Dr. Mary Jo K. Voelpel, who serves patients in Orion, Michigan.

A competent hematologist-oncologist specializing in hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Dr. Voelpel tends to patients at her private practice in Orion, Michigan.

Back in the early days of her academic career, she earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1975. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, followed by her fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at the Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital.

Subsequent to her education, the doctor attained board certification in hematology, medical oncology, and internal medicine through the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine, which is an organization that provides board certification to qualified Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine who specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease in adults.

Achieving fellowship status, Dr. Voelpel is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists (FACOI), and a Fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (FACNM).

Hematology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. A hematologist-oncologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of cancer, malignant blood diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, and blood disorders such as iron-deficiency anemia, clotting abnormalities, hemophilia, and sickle-cell disease.

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