Andre Goy, M.D. is Physician-in-Chief for Hackensack Meridian Health Oncology Services and Chairman of John Theurer Cancer Center as well as Founding Chair of Oncology at the Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

HMH is New Jersey’s largest Healthcare system (18 hospitals and over 38,000 employees) and John Theurer Cancer Center, its flagship cancer program is recognized as the state’s largest and #1 in our state as well as among the Top 50 cancer programs by US News and World Reports. JTCC is a member of the NCI-designated Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Consortium and also a member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering / MSKCC – Hackensack Meridian Health partnership.

Dr. Goy also leads the Lymphoma Program at JTCC and is widely known for his work particularly in aggressive lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma, especially around novel therapies, immunotherapy, and CAR T cells. He has served on the NCI steering committee for lymphoma and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lymphoma Research Foundation. Dr. Goy has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and serves as a reviewer for many journals in the field including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Blood, among others.

Dr Goy brought the best-in-class genomics liquid biopsies technology platform to support precision and personalized medicine in cancer patients. He is a co-founder of COTA Healthcare, an analytics company to help rationalize treatment decisions in cancer care, to improve each patient outcome and help bring clarity for physicians and patients at the point of decision of care and bring value through smarter medicine (ie what is my best option now, and what is the best sequence of care for a given patient)

In collaboration with Steven Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery and Immunology at the NCI, and his team, Dr Goy led the effort to bring CAR T cell therapy, the most transforming cancer therapy in over 3 decades, which made our Cancer Center John Theurer, a pioneer of this new and first ever gene therapy and living therapy. Dr Goy believes the future of cancer will be increasingly cell therapy and not pills, as it is empowering and restoring the natural ability of our immune system to cure cancer.

Dr Goy believes we are at an inflection point in medicine due to an unprecedented acceleration in science and technology that is reshaping health care. He co-chaired the Global Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare for the World Economic Forum from 2015 to 2019 and has been participating in the WEF meeting every year since.

Because cancer is a complex, scary, and costly medicine, with an expected increasing incidence estimated at over 60% in the next 25 years, he believes cancer care can be a model for reinventing healthcare delivery. As part of this Dr Goy launched an Institute for Cancer Prevention (Pre-Cancer) and Prevention of Recurrence (Post Cancer). He also wants to develop more chemotherapy at home and empower patients to recover better through wellness.

Dr Goy believes in lifestyle changes and recommends exercise to 100% of his patients during and after cancer treatment. He also believes in the importance of nutrition, and he established a program at the Cancer Center with a demo kitchen where “We can teach patients how to cook, because this is the best way to make them understand we believe in their future” and this program has been very successful. Dr Goy also believes that a plant-based diet can be very impactful in the prevention of cancer and for recovery post therapy. He has implemented this on several hundred patients so far with great results, including some patients, who stopped up to 6 or 7 medications in just 6 months after switching to plant based. Patients are very enthusiastic about this, and he believes that just by exercising and eating better, we could reduce the cost of healthcare by half.

The future of medicine will be more and more towards preemptive medicine, by taking “corrective actions” in people’s lifestyles, as we monitor them through molecular wellness at home and in their ecosystem. Up to 50% of cancers are preventable by lifestyle changes – these changes would also reduce the risk of non-communicable chronic diseases dramatically (aging, dementia, autoimmune diseases, etc…)and reduce again the cost of health care. Much of the benefits of better eating is through maintaining a healthy and rich microbiome, i.e. the microorganisms that live in our body (guts, skin for example). It is amazing to realize that almost ½ of the 3 trillion cells we have in our body are non-human cells, but bacteria and fungi mostly, which help constantly modulate our metabolism and our immune system.

Dr Goy believes in the future; food will be medicine, and this is just the beginning.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/food-eat-not-eat-prevent-cancer-according-doctor-nutritionist

Finally, Dr Goy established a cancer survivorship event “Celebrating Life and Liberty” in 2009, which gathered patients and care givers at Ellis Island then Liberty State Park, the Met Life Stadium as it grew up to almost 10,000 pts. Each year he had a celebrity supporting the event as below Aretha Franklin in 2012, where his father came from France and sung before Aretha Franklin.

After completing medical school at the University Joseph Fourier School of Medicine in Grenoble, France, Dr Goy received his training in Hematology/Oncology, and Immunology at The University Hospital System and Pasteur Institute in Paris. He then was on Faculty at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in NY and at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX for over 15 years before joining HMH and John Theurer Cancer Center, leading one of the largest cancer care programs in the Tri-State Area. Dr Goy is currently enrolled in the E-MBA program at MIT class 2026.