Leukemia Doctors & Experts

Each person who comes to Memorial Sloan Kettering for leukemia treatment benefits from our team approach to care. Members of the leukemia team meet weekly to review and discuss your treatment plan. Other specialists, including those who provide psychosocial support, help the team meet your and your caregivers’ nonmedical needs. These healthcare professionals work together to provide a full spectrum of supportive care.

Our team cares for about 350 new patients with leukemia each year, providing the latest advances in chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation, and other innovative approaches.

A collaborative approach is very important when caring for people with leukemia because many patients require more than one form of treatment. Having a team of specialists working together from the very beginning optimizes your care.

New Patient Appointments
Call 646-497-9154
We’re available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center hematologic oncologist Omar Abdel-Wahab
Chair, Molecular Pharmacology, Sloan Kettering Institute; Evnin Family Chair in Molecular Pharmacology
Dr. Lauren Banaszak
Clinical Instructor; Lead, Inherited Hematologic Cancer
Ellin Berman, MD
Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering hematologic oncologist Sheng Cai
Assistant Attending Physician
Dr. Brian Chernak
Assistant Attending Physician
Kuo-Kai Chin
Assistant Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Anthony Daniyan
Assistant Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering hematologic oncologist Susan Ehrenkranz De Wolf
Assistant Attending Physician
Anupama Doraiswamy
Associate Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering hematologic oncologist Mark Geyer
Adolescent and Young Adult Program Leader, Leukemia Service; Adult Lymphoblastic Leukemia Program Leader, Leukemia Service; Chair, Quality Assessment, Cellular Therapy Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering hematologic oncologist Aaron Goldberg
Assistant Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hematologic Oncologist Tamanna Haque
Assistant Attending Physician
Prioty Islam, Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist
Clinical Director, Leukemia Service
Michael J. Mauro, MD
Attending Physician
Varun Narendra, MD, PhD
Assistant Attending Physician
Jae Park, MD
Chief, Cellular Therapy Service
Raajit K. Rampal, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Hematologic Malignancies; Director, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering physician-scientist David Scheinberg
Chairman, Experimental Therapeutics Center; Vincent Astor Chair; Deputy Director, Therapeutic Discovery, Sloan Kettering Institute
Robert Stanley
Instructor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hematologic Oncologist Eytan Stein
Chief, Leukemia Service; Director, Program for Drug Development in Leukemia, Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Clare Sun
Associate Attending Physician
Meghan C. Thompson
Assistant Attending Physician
Yannis K. Valtis
Assistant Attending Physician
Dr. Xin Wang
Assistant Attending Physician
Xiaodi Wu
Instructor
Meira Yisraeli Salman
Assistant Attending Physician
Dr. James Yoon
Assistant Attending Physician
Katherine Kan
Nurse Practitioner
Sheena D. Lacsina
Advanced Practice Provider
Kathleen Pormento Mendoza
Physician Assistant
Bernadette M. Cuello
Nurse Practitioner
Coleen P. Ranaghan
Nurse Practitioner
Mohammad Alhomoud
Bone Marrow Transplant Specialist
Sergio A. Giralt, MD
Deputy Division Head, Division of Hematologic Malignancies; Melvin Berlin Family Chair in Multiple Myeloma; Chief Medical Officer, MSK Direct
Charlotte Hughes
Assistant Attending Physician
Ann A. Jakubowski, MD, PhD
Clinical Director, Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Outpatient Unit
Memorial Sloan Kettering hematologic oncologist Richard Lin
Assistant Attending Physician
Dr. Miguel-Angel Perales
Chief, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Doris M. Ponce, MD
Co-Chair, Center for Hematologic Malignancies Translational Research Council; Director, Graft-Versus-Host Disease Program
Brian Shaffer, MD
Program Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immunotherapy Fellowship Programs
Roni Shouval, MD, PhD
Director, Precision Cellular Therapy Laboratory; Assistant Attending Physician
Roni Tamari, MD
Associate Attending Physician
Dr. Jennifer Tsai
Assistant Attending Physician
Moneeza Walji
Assistant Attending Physician
Elisabetta Xue, MD
Assistant Attending Physician
Kimon Argyropoulos
Assistant Attending Pathologist
Attending Pathologist
Assistant Attending Physician
Shenon Sethi
Assistant Attending Pathologist
Assistant Attending Physician
Patricia Kalnberg
Clinical Social Worker II