Dr. Victoria Forte has joined Richmond University Medical Center as the Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Cancer Service Line Director, and Fellowship Program Director.
Having grown up and been educated on Staten Island, Dr. Forte completed her hematology-oncology fellowship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. There she was awarded the Broad Stem Cell Clinical Scholars Grant. She presented her translational biomarker research in several conferences including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR). Prior to her time at USC, she was an internal medicine resident in Brooklyn at SUNY Downstate Medical Center where she rotated through Kings County Hospital, the Brooklyn VA, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. At MSKCC, she conducted several research projects in immunology and brain metastases.
Additionally, she has been appointed to the board of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Institutional Review Board. Her prior positions include serving as Cancer Service Line Director and Chief of Hematology-Oncology at New York City Health and Hospitals/Kings County and as a Director at Northwell’s Cancer Institute. In addition, in her tenure as Medical Director at Puma Biotechnology, she was pivotal in the FDA approval of a novel HER2 targeted therapy in breast cancer.
She has been extensively published in several high impact peer reviewed journals and participates in a number of professional societies. Her special interests are the multi-disciplinary care of cancer, novel therapeutics, clinical trials, translational research, benign hematology and personalized medicine.
