Courtney D. DiNardo, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Leukemia
Division of Cancer Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Dr. Courtney DiNardo received her medical degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She completed her internal medicine internship and residency, followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. DiNardo is currently Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, and Institutional Review Board Vice Chair at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Dr. DiNardo’s clinical research focuses on prognostication and personalized therapeutics in myeloid malignancies. She is primary investigator of multiple novel IDH1/IDH2-targeted therapeutic agents currently in clinical trials and is also involved in the clinical development of venetoclax in combination with hypomethylating agent therapy for the treatment of newly diagnosed elderly AML. Her clinical and research focus on hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes led to development of the MD Anderson Hereditary Hematologic Malignancy Clinic, which provides clinical and research-based evaluation of underlying cancer predispositions and hereditary cancer syndromes in leukemia patients.

Last modified: April 12, 2022