Norah Layla Sadek, MD

Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Acute pain
  • Complications of cancer

My Specialties

  • General internal medicine
  • Emergency cancer-related care
  • Pain management

Get to Know Me

I’m an emergency medicine physician who sees patients for emergency cancer-related care. This could include acute pain or complications from cancer or its treatment. I see patients at Memorial Hospital, the main hospital of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), in New York City and at MSK Bergen in New Jersey.

What I Do at MSK

I'm an emergency medicine doctor, which is a doctor with special training in treating people in the emergency room.

  • Assistant Attending Physician
Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Acute pain
  • Complications of cancer

My Specialties

  • General internal medicine
  • Emergency cancer-related care
  • Pain management
Education & Honors

Education

  • New York Medical College

Residencies

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Morningside/Mount Sinai West

Insurance Information

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Contact and Location

Office Phone
Location
Montvale, NJ
New York, NY
225 Summit Avenue Montvale NJ 07645
1275 York Avenue New York NY 10065

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Colleagues

Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering work as teams, with specialists from all different areas. This allows us to consider all your needs together, and to give you the best possible care.

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Clinical Trials

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Find a Clinical Trial for You

Memorial Sloan Kettering's doctors and scientists are constantly developing new treatments for cancer. MSK is typically running hundreds of clinical trials at a given time.

You may be able to participate in a clinical trial even if you are new to MSK. Search our online directory to find trial information and see more about who can participate.

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Research and Publications

Costa BA, Dima D, Mark T, Sadek NL, Ijioma S, Ray D, Goel U, Dranitsaris G, Sheng T, Moshier E, Mouhieddine TH, Khouri J, Rossi A. Impact of Prior Selinexor Exposure on Outcomes of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma: An Exploratory Analysis. J Clin Med. 2025 Feb 16;14(4):1316. PMID: 40004846; PMCID: PMC11856958.

Sadek NL, Costa BA, Nath K, Mailankody S. CAR T-Cell Therapy for Multiple Myeloma: A Clinical Practice-Oriented Review. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2023 Dec;114(6):1184-1195. Epub 2023 Nov 4. PMID: 37750399.

Upadhyay R, Boiarsky JA, Pantsulaia G, Svensson-Arvelund J, Lin MJ, Wroblewska A, Bhalla S, Scholler N, Bot A, Rossi JM, Sadek N, Parekh S, Lagana A, Baccarini A, Merad M, Brown BD, Brody JD. A Critical Role for Fas-Mediated Off-Target Tumor Killing in T-cell Immunotherapy. Cancer Discov. 2021 Mar;11(3):599-613. Epub 2020 Dec 17. PMID: 33334730; PMCID: PMC7933082.

Lu H, Liu S, Zhang G, Bin Wu, Zhu Y, Frederick DT, Hu Y, Zhong W, Randell S, Sadek N, Zhang W, Chen G, Cheng C, Zeng J, Wu LW, Zhang J, Liu X, Xu W, Krepler C, Sproesser K, Xiao M, Miao B, Liu J, Song CD, Liu JY, Karakousis GC, Schuchter LM, Lu Y, Mills G, Cong Y, Chernoff J, Guo J, Boland GM, Sullivan RJ, Wei Z, Field J, Amaravadi RK, Flaherty KT, Herlyn M, Xu X, Guo W. PAK signalling drives acquired drug resistance to MAPK inhibitors in BRAF-mutant melanomas. Nature. 2017 Oct 5;550(7674):133-136. Epub 2017 Sep 27. Erratum in: Nature. 2019 Jan;565(7738):E4. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0814-7. PMID: 28953887; PMCID: PMC5891348.

Zhang G, Wu LW, Mender I, Barzily-Rokni M, Hammond MR, Ope O, Cheng C, Vasilopoulos T, Randell S, Sadek N, Beroard A, Xiao M, Tian T, Tan J, Saeed U, Sugarman E, Krepler C, Brafford P, Sproesser K, Murugan S, Somasundaram R, Garman B, Wubbenhorst B, Woo J, Yin X, Liu Q, Frederick DT, Miao B, Xu W, Karakousis GC, Xu X, Schuchter LM, Mitchell TC, Kwong LN, Amaravadi RK, Lu Y, Boland GM, Wei Z, Nathanson K, Herbig U, Mills GB, Flaherty KT, Herlyn M, Shay JW. Induction of Telomere Dysfunction Prolongs Disease Control of Therapy-Resistant Melanoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Oct 1;24(19):4771-4784. Epub 2018 Mar 21. PMID: 29563139; PMCID: PMC6150856.

Publications on PubMed

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