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Iris Isufi, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
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Co-Director Adult CAR T-Cell Therapy Program, Hematology

Co-Leader, Cellular Therapy Clinical Research Team, Yale Cancer Center

Co-Chair, Cellular Therapy (CT)-SAFE Committee, Yale Cancer Center

About

Titles

Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology)

Co-Director Adult CAR T-Cell Therapy Program, Hematology; Co-Leader, Cellular Therapy Clinical Research Team, Yale Cancer Center; Co-Chair, Cellular Therapy (CT)-SAFE Committee, Yale Cancer Center

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  • Hematology

    Associate Professor on Term
    Primary
    Hematology

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Education & Training

Fellowship
Yale University School of Medicine (2011)
Residency
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center (2007)
MD
State University of New York at Stony Brook (2004)
BA
The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, 2000, Biology (2000)

Research

Overview

Dr. Isufi's clinical work has been in the area of hematologic malignancies and autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation for these conditions. As part of the lymphoid malignancy and transplant teams, she developed a strong clinical interest in aggressive lymphomas. She has focused her efforts in treating patients with aggressive lymphomas as part of clinical trials and consolidating their response to treatment with either autologous or allogeneic transplant based on specifics of their disease. She has a research interest in early drug development in lymphoma, and has served as local PI for a variety of industry- and cooperative-group-sponsored lymphoma trials, including phase 1 trials.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Bone Marrow Transplantation; Clinical Trials as Topic; Clinical Trials, Phase I as Topic; Graft vs Host Disease; Lymphoma; Transplantation Conditioning

Research at a Glance

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop Fellow, Vail, CO

    National AwardAACR
  • honor

    Outstanding House Officer in Internal Medicine Award

    Other AwardAlbert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
  • honor

    The Kijeon Yoo Award for Determination in Pursuit of a Medical Education

    Other AwardStony Brook University School of Medicine
  • honor

    Medical School Merit-Based Scholarship

    Other AwardStony Brook University School of Medicine

Clinical Care

Overview

Iris Isufi, MD, is a hematologist who specializes in treating patients with lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and leukemia. Dr. Isufi provides care through treatments involving cellular therapy, which include CAR T-cell therapy and stem cell transplants. She is co-director of the CAR T-Cell Therapy Program for adults.

“Cell therapies like CAR T-cell therapy are promising for diseases that haven’t responded to multiple types of treatment,” Dr. Isufi says. “It’s a recent development, but one that students in medical school are already learning about, and that’s very exciting.”

The potential benefit of CAR T-cell therapy matters especially to Dr. Isufi, who grew up in Albania and sometimes accompanied her mother, a physician, on rounds at the hospital. “I saw challenges they [the doctors] were facing in trying to help people. Their determination inspired me when I was young to become a physician,” Dr. Isufi says.

As she visits her cancer patients today, Dr. Isufi spends time getting to know each one so that she can provide reassurance for each person’s unique situation. “I tell them we are in this together and that I’ll do my best to help them get through it all—beginning to end,” she says. Dr. Isufi continues to check in on patients who have been in remission for many years after receiving their treatment.

“My patients are very grateful, brave, and courageous, and this inspires me,” she says.

Dr. Isufi is an assistant professor of hematology at Yale School of Medicine, where she also runs clinical trials in patients with lymphoma.

Clinical Specialties

Hematologic Oncology; Leukemia & Lymphoma; Hematology

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