Narjust Duma

Narjust Duma, M.D. is the 2019 Mayo Brother Distinguished Fellowship Award winner, considered the highest medical trainee honor in the Mayo Clinic (NY, USA). Dr. Duma is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (WI, USA) and a distinguished member of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. She graduated first in her medical school class at La Universidad Catolica Nordestana in the Dominican Republic, completed her internal medicine residency at Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School (NJ, USA), where she was awarded the most scholarly resident award in 2015 and 2016. Dr. Duma completed her hematology and medical oncology fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester and was selected by her peer as one of the 2018–2019 chief hematology and medical oncology fellows. She has been recognized for her work with numerous awards, including the 2018 resident of the year by the National Hispanic Medical Association and Next Generation Innovators Award by HemOnc Today – Healio.

Contributor at Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Lancet Oncology, The Oncologist, Cancer Journal, ASCO Post, ASCO Connection, Journal of Oncology Practice, Journal of Global Oncology, Mayo Clinic Proceedings and BMJ journals. She has also contributed with Op-Ed pieces in Doximity and KevinMD.com. She has authored over 28 professional publications on her research in addition to international presentations and book chapters. To learn more about Dr. Duma, visit her profile and follow her on Twitter @NarjustDumaMD.