Hadrian Mendoza, MD

Dr. Hadrian Mendoza, a native of Atlanta, GA, is a resident physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, summa cum laude and with departmental distinction, at Georgia State University. He completed his medical education at Yale University, where he received a Hematology Opportunities for the Next Generation of Research Scholars (HONORS) research grant from the American Society of Hematology to investigate applications of B- and T-cell gene rearrangement analysis in the diagnosis of lymphoid neoplasms. Prior to residency at Yale, Dr. Mendoza completed an internship in Pediatrics at Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. His clinical interests include molecular risk stratification and management of myeloproliferative neoplasms, myelodysplastic syndromes, acute myeloid leukemia, and bone marrow failure syndromes.

Dr. Mendoza is an avid trumpet player with particular interests in jazz and commercial music. Prior to a career in medicine, he played trumpet and flugelhorn professionally in the Southeast. He has performed and recorded with local and international artists including Lady Gaga, Sam Moore from the soul music duo “Sam & Dave,” Cuban saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, big band drummer Duffy Jackson, jazz trumpeter and vocalist Joe Gransden, and the Atlanta-based pop/R&B group The Shadowboxers. His original trumpet lines can be heard on "Sabotage" by Wale, from the album Ambition that reached #1 on US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, #1 on US Billboard top Rap Albums, and #2 on US Billboard 200 in 2011.