Dr. Carvajal is a leader in rare melanoma research and early-phase drug development. He is the Roy J. and Tara Zuckerberg Professor in Medical Oncology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Deputy Physician-in-Chief and Director of Hematology/Oncology at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute, where he leads all hematology and medical oncology programs across Northwell’s cancer network, the largest in New York State. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator of over 500 clinical trials, including a number of investigator-initiated, multi-center, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP)-sponsored, and industry-supported clinical trials. The desire to help develop new oncology drugs led him to complete a fellowship in medical oncology/hematology at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. Prior to joining Northwell, he led the Developmental Therapeutics Service at MSK Cancer Center. He then served as director of Experimental Therapeutics and director of the Melanoma Service at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, as well as co-lead of the Precision Oncology and Systems Biology Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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