Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD, is the Attending Physician, Lymphoma Service, Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He was the Medical Director, Quality Informatics 2016-12/31/23. Prior to that, he held the positions of Vice-Chair - Medical Informatics January 2013 - May 2016 & Chief of Lymphoma Service, Division of Hematology/Oncology at MSK from 1994 to December 2012. He also is Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Zelenetz received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College, doctorate of philosophy from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Division of Medical Sciences, and medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Completed both his internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University MC, where he completed clinical and research fellowships in oncology.
He has helped develop a number of agents now approved to treat lymphoma -- including 131I-tosituomab/tositumomab, bortezomib, pralatrexate, idelalisisb, obinutuzumab, zanubrutinib, and venetoclax. Through clinical studies, he is evaluating benefits of novel combinations of agents. He has published more than 200 papers on lymphoma research in journals
Dr. Zelenetz is a member of the ASH, ASCO, and the American College of Physicians. He participates in various committees: member of the Alliance Lymphoma Core Committee; is the immediate past chair of the SAB of the LRF. He has been the recipient of the MSKCC Fellowship Teaching Excellence Award multiple times, and he received the NCCN Rodger Winn Award from in 2012.
Dr. Zelenetz is co-Chair of the NCCN B cell Guidelines Committee.