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Jedd Wolchok

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Jedd Wolchok
Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma Program Office

(646) 962-6444

 1305 York Ave., 12th Floor New York, NY 10065
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Jedd Wolchok

Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD, FASCO, is the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Wolchok was most recently Chief of the Immuno-Oncology Service and held The Lloyd J. Old Chair in Clinical Investigation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and remains Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Wolchok is a clinician-scientist exploring innovative immunotherapeutic strategies in laboratory models, and a principal investigator in numerous pivotal clinical trials.  Dr. Wolchok helped establish immunotherapy as a standard approach to cancer treatment and was instrumental in the clinical development leading to the approval of ipilimumab and the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for advanced melanoma.  He supervises an NIH R01-funded basic science laboratory which is focused on investigating novel immunotherapeutic agents in pre-clinical laboratory models. The focus of his translational research laboratory is to investigate innovative means to modulate the immune response to cancer as well as to better understand the mechanistic basis for sensitivity and resistance to currently available immunotherapies. Dr. Wolchok received his BA degree from Princeton University, and his MS, PhD and MD degrees from New York University. Dr. Wolchok has received numerous honors for his work including: American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Memorial Award, the Giants of Cancer Care in Melanoma Award, the Berson Alumni Achievement Award in Clinical and Translational Science and the Zelmanovich Young Alumni Achievement Award from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the Alfred Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Research (Univ of Michigan) and has been designated a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO).  Most recently, he has been awarded the the Distinguished Alumni Award at MSK, the AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research, the ESMO Award for Immuno-Oncology and the David Karnofsky Award from ASCO. Dr. Wolchok has served on the Board of Directors of ASCO and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and currently is the Treasurer of SITC. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and is Chair of the Melanoma Committee for the ECOG-ACRIN NCI cooperative group. He is a full member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and center director for the Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy.
Website https://weillcornell.org/jedd-d-wolchok-md-phd?utm_source=yextnetwork&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=yext_doctor_listings
Primary Specialty

Hematologist

Practice Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma Program
Gender Male
Not Accepting New Patients
Insurances Accepted Oxford Health Plans, Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP), GHI, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus, Aetna - NYP, AETNA, VNSNY CHOICE, UnitedHealthcare
Degrees Medical Doctor, Doctor of Philosophy
Office Name Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma Program
Languages English
Map and Directions
1305 York Ave., 12th Floor, New York, NY 10065
Services Jedd Wolchok provides hematology services in New York, NY. A Hematologist specializes in the study of blood and related systems.

Please call Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma Program at (646) 962-6444 to schedule an appointment in New York, NY or to get more information. Additional Services Oncologist
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