Introduction:
I completed medical school in India. After a short break to recover from Hodgkins lymphoma, I worked as a primary care physician and an internist in India. I subsequently moved to the United States and went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at Medstar Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, MD and a Hematology and Oncology fellowship at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC with a focus on thoracic malignancies. During the fellowship I developed an interest in drug development which led me to an Investigational Cancer Therapeutics fellowship at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Clinical Interests & Research:
I am now an Assistant Professor of Medicine at The University of Alabama at Birmingham where I am in the process of building the lung cancer clinical trials portfolio and am the founder/lead of the immune related adverse events working group. My goal for the next 5 years is to build a diverse and meaningful clinical trial portfolio at UAB for our patients with thoracic malignancies, spanning from early stage disease to subsequent line therapies for those with metastatic disease. Additionally, I want to introduce biomarker-driven therapeutic trials to mitigate immune related adverse events.
