Dr. Abbas is the director of the Acute Leukemia and Blood Cancer Program at Tennessee Oncology at St. Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville. He completed medical school at the Medical College of Georgia, and he did his internship, residency, and fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Abbas practiced in hematologic malignancies, stem cell transplant, and cellular therapy in Arizona for seven years before joining Tennessee Oncology in 2020. He is an investigator in more than 50 clinical trials in various hematologic malignancies through Tennessee Oncology and Sarah Cannon.