Dr. Gail Roboz was presented with the 43rd Maurice Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. This award is the highest honor at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian and recognizes an outstanding individual for exceptional and longtime service.
The Maurice Greenberg Award was established in 1980 to identify and celebrate the exceptional individuals who make NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine an academic, clinical, and research powerhouse.
Dr. Roboz completed both internal medicine residency in 1997 and hematology and medical oncology fellowship in 2000 at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. After completing her fellowship, Dr. Roboz has ever since been a faculty member at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. She is now the Director of the Clinical and Translational Leukemia Program and is internationally recognized as a leader in the field. Her research investigates developmental therapeutics for acute leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, and myeloproliferative diseases, and she has served as the principal investigator on numerous clinical trials.
An award ceremony was held at the Plaza Hotel on April 21, 2026, where Dr. Roboz and her family, friends, and colleagues gathered to celebrate and honor this achievement.
L-R, Dr. Deepa Kumaraiah, Jeffrey Greenberg, Dr. Gail Roboz, Bernadette Castro, and Dr. Robert A. Harrington