Owen A. O’connor MD, PhD

Dr. O'Connor is a Professor of Medicine and Experimental Therapeutics, and the Director of the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies, and Co-Program Director of the Lymphoid Development and Malignancy Program in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. O'Connor attained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Toxicology from the New York University School of Medicine. Following his Ph.D. training, he completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Chemical Engineering. He then went on to attain his MD from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, followed then by a residency in Internal Medicine at the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Following his residency, he went on to perform his Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), where he was Chief Fellow, and a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at NewYork-Presbyterian HospitalWeill Cornell.