Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, GRACE Faculty

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, Staff Physician
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
OH
Specialties
Hematology and Oncology

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, is a staff Physician of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and staff physician in the Department of Hematology and Oncology at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. His specialty areas include lung cancer, mesothelioma, and thymic tumors and the use of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of lung cancer. Dr. Velcheti’s clinical and translational research focuses on identifying patients with molecular changes in the tumor that can predict response to immunotherapy and expanding clinical trials focusing on immunotherapy and novel agents. Dr. Velcheti received his hematology/oncology fellowship training at the Yale-Comprehensive Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut.

Conflict of Interest

None

Dr. Vamsidhar Velcheti with the Cleveland Clinic joined GRACE to discuss updates to our Lung Cancer Video Library. In this video, Dr. Velcheti discusses gilotrif/afatanib in squamous non small cell lung cancer.

Dr. Vamsidhar Velcheti with the Cleveland Clinic joined GRACE to discuss updates to our Lung Cancer Video Library. In this video, Dr. Velcheti discusses biomarkers for immunotherapy and if there is anything better than PDL1.

Dr. Vamsidhar Velcheti with the Cleveland Clinic joined GRACE to discuss updates to our Lung Cancer Video Library. In this video, Dr. Velcheti discusses MET as a target in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

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