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Welcome to the home page of the Division of Hematology/Oncology of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.
In collaboration with our many colleagues associated with the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, our doctors and staff are dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care to patients with cancer and blood (hematologic) diseases.
In addition to patient care, we continue a nearly century-long history of conducting pioneering research to help further therapeutic approaches to solid tumors and hematologic disorders.
We are proud to be affiliated with the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital system and our physicians also care for patients at Harlem Hospital Center.
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In the News
How Cancer Acquired Its Own Biographer
In Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s lab, a Stanley Kubrick-like space at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University... Read more >>
Cancer as Old Foe and Goad to Science
On its first page “The Emperor of All Maladies” sets forth its intention: to be a definitive history of how cancer has been understood... Read more >>
Alfred I. Neugut, MD, PhD, the Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research in Medicine and professor of epidemiology (Mailman), has received a three-year grant of $1.6 million from the National Cancer Institute for the Columbia-South Africa Training Program for Research on HIV-associated Malignancies. This program aims to strengthen the institutional base for bench-to-bedside research on HIV-related malignancies at three major institutions at the epicenter of the HIV pandemic and to give the rising generation of scientists a global health perspective. Dr. Neugut also has received a three-year Health Disparity Award of $717,000 from the DoD/Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program for research titled "Racial Disparities in Palliative Care for Prostate Cancer." The study will explore key variables, especially race, but also tumor and provider characteristics and health care settings, which can be analyzed from a large population-based administrative database, and investigate their roles in three common palliative settings among prostate cancer patients.
Attending Physician Award
David Diuguid, MD
Department of Medicine
Dr. David Diuguid is the Hope Sheridan Associate Professor of Clinical Hematology in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons... Read more>>
Fellow Award
Andrew Eisenberger, MD
Department of Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Andrew Eisenberger completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and received his medical degree in 2001 from Albert Einstein College of Medicine... Read more >>
M. Wasif Saif, MD, MBBS, Receives Oncology Award
M. Wasif Saif, MD, MBBS, has been named America's Top Oncologist for 2010 by the Consumers' Research Council of America. Dr. Saif is Medical Director of the Pancreas Center at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. This is the second consecutive year that the council has honored Dr. Saif with this award.http://www.pancreasmd.org/guide_news.html
http://www.columbiasurgery.org/news/awards/index_2010.html