Reshma Jagsi, MD, D.Phil

Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology Emory University

Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University. Author of over 450 publications, she is the PI of multiple NIH grants, including R01-funded projects that focus on investigating women’s under-representation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity, which have yielded numerous high-impact publications in journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Active in organized medicine, she serves on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the NIH Advisory Committee for Research on Women’s Health.