Steven Coutre, MD
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Cancer Institute
After a prolonged illness and hospitalization, Steven Coutre, MD, passed away on November 9, 2021.
“Steve was a giant – a ‘living legend’ – who touched us all personally and professionally. He will be missed,” said Ravi Majeti MD, PhD, RZ Cao Professor of Medicine and chief of the Division of Hematology at Stanford University, in a message posted to the Stanford Medicine Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog.
Dr. Coutre was a hematologist, leukemia specialist, and professor at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California, as well as a former member of the American Society of Hematology Committee on Practice. He attended medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine and then completed his residency and internship at Yale University.
“I had the privilege of lecturing to other physicians with him a few times and interviewing him over the years. I always found him to be a generous natural teacher with a depth of understanding of complex scientific issues that he could make simple,” said Brian Koffman, MDCM, co-founder, executive vice president, and chief medical officer of CLL Society on the organization’s website. “He will be missed by many, especially his many CLL patients and his colleagues in the CLL research community. We lost a strong clinician and researcher, and one of the too few true CLL experts available to care for patients.”