Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa

Biography

Ghassan Abou-Alfa is an Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
(MSK), Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical School at Cornell University, and Adjunct
Professor at Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.

Professor Abou-Alfa majored in biology, earned his medical degree, and now serves as a trustee
on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater the American University in Beirut (AUB). Professor
Abou-Alfa completed his postdoctoral training in internal medicine, medical oncology, and
hematology at Yale University, received his MBA from Columbia University, and is completing
his JD from Fordham University.

Professor Abou-Alfa specializes in in the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies and in
particular, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
(IHC), gallbladder cancer (GB), and fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC).

Professor Abou-Alfa is the immediate previous Chair of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Hepatobiliary Task Force and currently serves at the NCI AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC)
Vice-Chair for Solid Tumor Working Group. Professor Abou-Alfa serves on the council of the
governing board of the Asia Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Expert Association.