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Francesca Montanari, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology)

Biography

Dr. Francesca Montanari is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Hematology at Yale, at the Smilow Cancer Center in Greenwich. She is a board certified hematologist and medical oncologist and provides care to patients with all types of blood diseases, including blood cancers.

Dr. Montanari received her medical degree from the University of Pavia in Italy where she graduated magna cum laude. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Herbert Irving Cancer Center at Columbia University, and at the Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University, focusing on clinical research in lymphoid malignancies.

She then completed both her residency and hematology-oncology fellowship at New York University School of Medicine and was an Assistant Professor of Medicine & Experimental Therapeutics in the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies at Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she served on the Institutional Review Board Committee and as a Director of the Institutional Lymphoma Tumor Board.

Dr. Montanari is currently a member of the Multidisciplinary T Cell Lymphoma Program and of the Lymphoma DART at the Yale Cancer Center. She serves as principal investigator and coinvestigator in several clinical trials.

She is also part of the steering committee of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, New York Lymphoma Rounds.

With over 15 years of clinical and research experience in lymphomas, Dr Montanari’s interests focus on improving and deepening the knowledge in the less common and less characterized subtypes of lymphomas, on prognostication and on developing therapeutic platforms, lymphoma subtype specific, leveraging developments in biology, biomarkers and novel agents.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Fellow
New York University (2016)
Resident
New York University (2013)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine (2010)
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Herbert Irving Cancer Center, Columbia University (2009)
Fellow
University of Pavia Medical Center (2006)
MD
University of Pavia (2002)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Francesca Montanari's published research.

Publications

2023

2022

2021

2020

Clinical Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    YNHHS Oncology Pharmacy and Therapeutics Subcommittee

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    American Society of Hematology

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    American Society of Clinical Oncology

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    Moderator: "Hodgkin Lymphoma and T/NK Cell Lymphomas, Clinical and Epidemiological: Topics in T Cell, Sezary and Hodgkin Lymphomas"

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    A Real World Experience of Combined Therapy with Romidepsin and Azacitidine in Patients with Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma- a Bridge to Transplant and an Effective Salvage for the Unfit

Clinical Care

Overview

Francesca Montanari, MD, is an assistant professor of clinical medicine (hematology) at Yale School of Medicine and sees patients at the Smilow Cancer Center in Greenwich. She is a board-certified hematologist and medical oncologist and provides care to patients with all types of blood diseases, including blood cancers.

Dr. Montanari received her medical degree from the University of Pavia in Italy, where she graduated magna cum laude. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Herbert Irving Cancer Center at Columbia University, and at the Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University, focusing on clinical research in lymphoid malignancies.

She then completed both her residency and hematology-oncology fellowship at New York University School of Medicine and was an assistant professor of medicine and experimental therapeutics in the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies at Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she served on the Institutional Review Board Committee and as a director of the Institutional Lymphoma Tumor Board.

Dr. Montanari is a member of the Multidisciplinary T Cell Lymphoma Program and the Lymphoma DART at the Yale Cancer Center. She serves as principal investigator and coinvestigator in several clinical trials.

She is also part of the steering committee of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, New York Lymphoma Rounds.

With more than 15 years of clinical and research experience in lymphomas, Dr Montanari’s interests focus on improving and deepening the knowledge in the less common and less characterized subtypes of lymphomas, on prognostication and on developing therapeutic platforms, lymphoma subtype specific, leveraging developments in biology, biomarkers, and novel agents.

Clinical Specialties

Hematologic Oncology; Hematology; Hematology & Oncology

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Board Certifications

  • Medical Oncology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2016
  • Hematology (Internal Medicine)

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2016

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