Jacqueline Barrientos
Academic History
Jacqueline Barrientos, MD, received her medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico. She then completed her internal residency at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, followed by a hematology oncology fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, NY.
Speaking on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and lymphoma
Dr Barrientos was involved in the pivotal trials that led to the approval of novel therapeutic agents that target dysregulated pathways in leukemia and lymphoma. She has extensive experience with the novel BTK inhibitors ibrutinib and acalabrutinib, with the PI3Kd inhibitor idelalisib, and the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax.
Dr Barrientos’s research focus is on CLL and lymphoma. She has served as principal investigator on several Phase I-III clinical trials that lead to the approval of novel therapies, changing the treatment paradigm of CLL and lymphoma.
