Lakshmi Rajdev MD, MS

Lakshmi Rajdev, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is the Medical Director of Oncology at Mount Sinai Morningside. Dr. Rajdev’s specialty is GI Oncology with particular expertise in gastroesophageal and anal carcinoma.

A nationally recognized investigator, Dr. Rajdev has chaired and co-chaired investigator-initiated and cooperative group studies. She serves on numerous scientific committees, including the Esophago-Gastric and Rectal Anal Task Force of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Gastrointestinal Cancer Steering Committee and the NCI Adult Central Institutional Review Board Late Phase Emphasis Committee. She has held leadership roles in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group GI Committee and the AIDS Malignancy Consortium. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rajdev spent most of her career at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein Cancer Center. More recently, she served as Chief of Hematology and Oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital and Director of GI Malignancies for the Western Region of the Northwell Health System.

Dr. Rajdev earned her MBBS from Grant Medical College in Bombay. She completed her Internal Medicine residency Beth Israel Medical Center, and a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at New York University. Dr. Rajdev also has a Masters in Clinical Research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.