Susan Alsamarai, MD, has worked in Connecticut since 2005 when she came for residency and a subsequent fellowship in oncology at Yale University. She briefly worked as a hospitalist in Manhattan between residency and fellowship. She joined Hartford Healthcare in 2012, seeing patients at MidState Medical Center.
Dr. Alsamarai practices general medical oncology with a particular interest in hematology/hematologic malignancies. As part of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer program, she brings knowledge immunotherapy stemming from fellowship when she was involved in the early ipilimumab clinical trials. She enjoyed seeing the dramatic improvement not only in treatment options, but, more importantly, responses and survival.