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Jorge Cortez, MD

Leukemia Specialist

Houston, TX

Clinical expertise

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia

Spoken languages

English

About

Dr. Jorge Cortes received his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City. In September 2019, he joined Augusta University as the Director of the Georgia Cancer Center in Augusta, Georgia, after being at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for 27 years, where he was Professor of Medicine and Internist and had many roles in the Department of Leukemia and the Division of Cancer Medicine, including Deputy Department Chair, Chair of AML and CML Sections, Deputy Division Chair for MDACC Network.

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