Reshma Jagsi, MD, PhD

Reshma Jagsi is Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Jagsi holds undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and a doctorate in social policy from Oxford University. Her clinical practice and clinical research focus on the management of breast cancer, and she is very interested in the complex decisions faced by cancer patients. Dr. Jagsi also conducts research about the social, political, and ethical aspects of medical care, with special interests in resource allocation issues, issues confronting women in academic medicine, and medical education. She is active in organized medicine and currently serves as a delegate to the American Medical Association’s Young Physicians’ Section. Her personal interests include playing the piano, traveling, and chasing after her baby daughter.

Recent Publications:

Becoming a doctor, starting a family--leaves of absence from graduate medical education
Jagsi R, Tarbell NJ, Weinstein DF. New England Journal of Medicine. 357(19):1889-1891, 2007.

Cardiac motion and reproducibility during the breathing cycle.
Jagsi R, Moran J, Marsh R, Kessler M, Pierce LJ. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics . 68:253-258, 2007.