Alana Nguyen

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Alana Nguyen
Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology Office

(646) 962-6200

1305 York Avenue 12th Floor New York, NY 10021
About

Alana Nguyen

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.
Primary Specialty

Hematologist

Practice Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology
Gender Female
Not Accepting New Patients
Insurances Accepted Oxford Health Plans, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, VNSNY CHOICE, United Healthcare, AETNA, Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP), Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus, Aetna - NYP, GHI
Degrees Medical Doctor, Doctor of Philosophy
Office Name Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology
Languages English
Services Alana Nguyen provides hematology services in New York, NY. A Hematologist specializes in the study of blood and related systems.

Please call Gastrointestinal (GI) Oncology at (646) 962-6200 to schedule an appointment in New York, NY or to get more information.
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