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Laleh Melstrom, MD

Associate Professor
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
La Verne, California, United States

Laleh Melstrom, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Surgery and Immuno-Oncology and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at City of Hope National Medical Center grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland just outside of Washington DC and received her Bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University with Honors in 1999. Thereafter, she obtained her MD degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She went on to complete her general surgery residency at Northwestern University in Chicago in 2010. During this time, she earned a Master’s Degree in the Science of Clinical Investigation (2005-2007) at Northwestern University where she also spent 2 years studying pancreatic cancer biology. Upon completion of residency she completed a Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She then was an Assistant Professor in Surgery at Rutgers University from 2012-2015. She was recruited to City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA in 2015 as a liver and pancreas surgeon and scientist studying new therapies in colorectal and pancreatic cancers. She has coauthored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and reviews/editorials in liver and pancreatic cancers. She is NIH funded and has academic interests in telehealth and RNA methylation

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