James A. Fagin, MD - MSK Endocrinologist

I am a board-certified dermatologist who cares for patients with skin lymphomas including cutaneous T-cell and B-cell lymphomas, and other cancers that affect your skin. I also provide care for patients who develop skin conditions as a side effect of their cancer treatment. I primarily see patients in the clinics at the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

I am an interventional oncologist, a type of interventional radiologist who uses image-guided, minimally invasive techniques to perform procedures to treat cancer. Rather than making a surgical incision, I perform procedures using miniaturized instruments, many of which are small enough to be used through a needle or catheter. Because of these innovations, many of the procedures I perform use only sedation, without the need of a breathing tube or an overnight stay.

I am a board-certified hematologist and medical oncologist whose clinical and research focus is on stem cell transplantation to treat blood cancers in adults, and I work as part of a multidisciplinary team of transplantation specialists. I have a particular interest in treating lymphoma and leukemia with either autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation. In the allogeneic setting, my focus is in using cord blood stems cells for patients who lack a suitably matched sibling or unrelated donor, or for those who are in urgent need of a transplant.