Alana T. H. Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.
Alana T. H. Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.

Alana T. H. Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.

Hematology/Oncology
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Hematology/Oncology, more

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About Alana T. H. Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.

Alana Nguyen, MD PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.


Dr. Nguyen received her MD from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and herPhD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She went on to complete her postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. After her residency, she entered fellowship training in Medical Oncology at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital in the Physician-Scientist Pathway.


Dr. Nguyen sees patients with malignancies of the digestive tract in her clinical practice.


In addition, her research focuses on drug development based on biological understanding of therapy resistance. She received a Women Who Conquer Cancer Award from the American Society for Clinical Oncology and its Conquer Cancer Foundation for her work on a 3-dimensional culture model of patient tumors to predict for patients' response to chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Using this innovative model, her current research will focus on understanding the tumor microenvironment of pancreatic cancer, and how this tumor microenvironment participates in drug evasion.


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Expertise

  • Gastrointestinal Oncology

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Education

  • Degrees: Boston University School of Medicine

  • Degrees: McGill University (Canada)

  • Degrees: Queen's University (Canada)

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Languages

  • English
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Titles & Positions

  • Assistant Attending Physician

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine

Education

  • Degrees: Boston University School of Medicine
  • Degrees: McGill University (Canada)
  • Degrees: Queen's University (Canada)

Titles & Positions

  • Assistant Attending Physician
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine

Languages Spoken

  • English