Elizabeth Comen, MD, an internationally acknowledged breast most cancers oncologist and girls’s well being specialist recognized for her pioneering contributions within the area, has joined the Breast Most cancers Middle at NYU Langone Well being’s Perlmutter Most cancers Middle as an affiliate professor within the Division of Drugs in its Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology. She involves NYU Langone from Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle.
An award-winning oncologist and bestselling creator, Dr. Comen has centered her medical and translational analysis on the connection between the immune system and breast most cancers development, notably in metastatic illness.
“Dr. Comen’s dedication to advancing breast most cancers analysis and therapy aligns completely with our dedication to offering the best high quality of care and conducting progressive analysis to raised perceive and deal with most cancers,” stated Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, the Anita Steckler and Joseph Steckler Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology and director of Perlmutter Most cancers Middle. “We’re thrilled to welcome her to our staff.”
Dr. Comen is famend for her fame as an advocate for girls’s well being and wellness. Her just lately revealed ebook, All in Her Head, unpacks the legacy behind pervasive gaps in girls’s healthcare.
She has additionally appeared in lots of native, nationwide, and worldwide information retailers, talking to the complexities of breast most cancers care to most of the people to extend consciousness and understanding, in addition to advocating for girls’s well being extra broadly. On account of her work, Dr. Comen has additionally collaborated with organizations that embody the White Home Initiative on Ladies’s Well being Analysis and the Ladies’s Well being Entry Issues (WHAM) Collaborative to advertise fairness for girls’s well being.
“I’m honored to contribute to Perlmutter Most cancers Middle’s mission of offering compassionate, cutting-edge care to folks dealing with breast most cancers,” stated Dr. Comen. “I stay up for working alongside my esteemed colleagues to additional our understanding of this illness and enhance outcomes for sufferers.”
About Dr. Comen
Dr. Comen earned her medical diploma from Harvard Medical Faculty and accomplished her internship and residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. She did her fellowships in medical oncology and superior breast drugs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle, the place she then held a number of college positions.
Dr. Comen, who focuses on inner drugs and is board-certified in medical oncology, is an energetic member of a number of skilled organizations and societies, together with the American Society of Scientific Oncology and the American Medical Ladies’s Affiliation. She has acquired a Division of Protection Breakthrough Award for analysis on breast most cancers tumor–infiltrating leukocytes that harbor mutations in oncogenes. The award is given to investigators whose analysis has excessive potential to make breakthroughs within the area of breast most cancers.
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