Dr. Eileen O'Reilly

Dr. Eileen O'Reilly is a member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University Medical College.

After receiving her medical degree from Trinity College (Dublin University) in Ireland, Dr. O'Reilly took oncology fellowship training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and joined the Faculty in 1997.

Dr. O'Reilly has a strong research and clinical interest in pancreatic cancer and hepatobiliary malignancies, and co-ordinates the pancreatic clinical trials at MSKCC.

She is involved in developing innovative therapeutics for these diseases in the phase I and phase II settings and in looking toward novel approaches to radiosensitization. She also has a major interest in vaccine immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer; a current adjuvant vaccine targets K-ras gene mutations which are almost ubiquitous in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

In addition, Dr. O'Reilly has a full teaching commitment at MSKCC and lectures extensively outside the institution on cancer of the pancreas. She is a member of multiple major oncologic organizations in the U.S. and Europe.