Shivaani Kummar
Indian oncologist and physician-scientist
Shivaani Kummar is an Indian oncologist and physician-scientist specializing in early-phase cancer drug development. Since 2025, she has served as the interim chief executive of the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), where Kummar has been a faculty member since 2020.
Education
Kummar earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1992 from Lady Hardinge Medical College. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Emory University in 1995. Following this, she pursued a fellowship in medical oncology and hematology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
She is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hematology. She was first certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1995, with recertifications in 2005 and 2015. She obtained board certification in medical oncology in 1998, recertifying in 2008 and 2018, with her current certification extending until 2028. She was also board-certified in hematology from 2002 to 2012.
Career
Kummar was a faculty member at Yale University.
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