Department of Hematology and Oncology at Cleveland Clinic
Suneel Kamath, MD is a medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers. He is a staff physician in the Department of Hematology and Oncology at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Kamath earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He completed his internal medicine residency, along with his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern University.
Dr. Kamath has published in many medical journals, including JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and Cancer Research. In addition to clinical trial development, his research work investigates health disparities and funding disparities within oncology to help increase awareness and funding support for underfunded cancers, which include gastrointestinal cancers. He has spoken in front of the U.S. Congress to advocate for more equitable research funding across cancers.
Dr. Kamath is a member of the newly-launched Center for Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer at Cleveland Clinic. Nationally, he is a member of the ASCO Multi-Site Guidelines Advisory Group and the NRG New Investigators Committee.
He is also an accomplished medical writer with editorials published in U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune, ABC News and Stat News, among others.
Session 4: Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) in Gastrointestinal Malignancies
Thursday, March 30, 2023
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM ET