Komal Jhaveri, MD, FACP
Associate Attending, Breast Medicine Service and Early Drug Development Service
Section Head, Endocrine Therapy Research Program
Clinical Director, Early Drug Development Service
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Dr. Jhaveri is an Associate Attending Physician and serves as the Section Head for the Endocrine Therapy Research Program within the Breast Medicine Service and as the Clinical Director for the Early Drug Development Service at MSKCC. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine (DOM) at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. She earned her medical degree followed by a training in nuclear medicine from the University of Mumbai. She later completed her Internal Medicine residency from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) Program in New York and her Medical Oncology/ Hematology fellowship at MSKCC. From July 2012-May 2015, she served as an Assistant Professor in the DOM at New York University and as an Attending Physician at the Langone Medical Center and at Bellevue Hospital.
Dr. Jhaveri’s research interests focus on the development of improved therapies for patients with breast cancer, by conducting novel clinical trials integrated with translational biomarker work through acquired biospecimen (cfDNA and tumor) or imaging analyses. She has led the development of PI3K/Akt inhibitors, FGFR inhibitors, ERBB2 inhibitors, oral SERD’s, Antibody-drug conjugates, amongst others.
Dr. Jhaveri serves as a member of the ASCO/TAPUR Molecular Tumor Board and is currently a member of the Developmental Therapeutics Track. She is the Co-Chair for the Endocrine Resistance working group within the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium. Her work has been presented at annual scientific meetings of ASCO, AACR, ESMO, SABCS and has been published widely in many reputable journals.
