Richard Lemons, MD, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah, chief of pediatric hematology/oncology at Primary Children’s Medical Center, and a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator. He is involved in various clinical trials for pediatric malignancies.

Lemons earned a medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; performed an internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; and completed a fellowship at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.