Aster Hospitals
Academic Medical Center
Clinical director
Dr. Priya Okafor, MD, PhD
Chief, Breast Oncology · Director, Cancer Institute
Dr. Okafor leads the Aster Cancer Institute and the breast oncology program. Her clinical focus is triple-negative breast cancer and young-onset disease. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, sits on the NCCN guidelines panel for breast cancer, and runs an NIH-funded laboratory studying tumor-immune microenvironments.
Focus areas
Triple-negative breast cancerYoung-onset breast cancerCancer immunotherapySurvivorship care
Education
MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowship, Medical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Research
Principal Investigator, NIH R01 on tumor microenvironment in TNBC
Co-Chair, NCCN Breast Cancer Guidelines Panel
Lead author, landmark 2024 JCO paper on CDK4/6 inhibitors
Languages
English
Yoruba
French
Appointment line
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