Kamal Menghrajani is an Indian-American cancer doctor. She has been named a White House Fellow for the class of 2023-2024, providing her with the opportunity to work at the highest levels of the U.S. federal government. She works with the Cancer Moonshot and Health Outcomes teams in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.
Wiki/Biography
In 2011, Kamal Menghrajani received his MD degree and a 3-year postgraduate medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. In July 2020, she completed a Master of Science (MS) in Biostatistics at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York. She is a member of the Global Health Team at the Mailman School of Public Health.
family
Parents and siblings
There is not much information about her parents and siblings.
wife and children
Kamal Menhrajani married Rajiv Magge on September 18, 2021. Rajiv Mager is an assistant professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College and an assistant attending neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She has no children yet.
Kamal Menghrajani and her husband Rajiv Magge
Profession
She is the co-founder of Nourish International, a student movement dedicated to addressing the effects of extreme poverty. She worked at the organization from January 2003 to May 2006. In August 2006, she joined the National Institutes of Health as an NCI researcher and worked there for 11 months. In June 2007, she joined ABC News as a medical reporter and worked there for the next three months. From June 2012 to June 2015, she served as a resident physician at the Medical College of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In July 2015, she joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a member. A year later, she became principal investigator and was promoted to attending physician in August 2018. In August 2023, she resigned from her job. She was appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden as a White House Fellow for the 2023-2024 class, providing her with the opportunity to work at the highest levels of the federal government in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Yesterday, President Biden announced my appointment as a White House Fellow https://t.co/lUBPDLmF7g
As the first oncologist selected, I am excited to serve in this new role alongside the Cancer Moonshot and Health Outcomes teams to lead, serve and innovate for our patients @WHOSTP
— Kamal Menghrajani, MD (@KamalMe) September 22, 2023
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- In 2018, the Conquer Cancer Foundation honored Kamal Menghrajani with the ASCO Young Investigator Award in memory of Sally Godonis.
- In May 2023, her team Candy Therapeutics won the Sigma Millipore High Impact Award at Nucleate in New York.
Facts/Trivia
- Her expertise is in leukemia and her research interests are clonal hematopoiesis, genomics, and the evaluation of advanced therapies through clinical studies. Kamal Menghrajani discussed the latest research on acute myeloid leukemia in an interview while working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Kamal Menghrajani has served oncology patients at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala.
- Kamal Menghrajani is the only Indian American among the 14 other members of the 2023-24 White House Fellows class.
Kamal Menghrajani with 14 other members (front row, far right) 2023-24 White House Fellows
Categories: Biography
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