Bio

Dr. Shikha Jain is a triple board-certified hematology and oncology physician. She is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Director of Communications Strategies in Medicine and the Associate Director of Oncology Communication and Digital Innovation for the University of Illinois Cancer Center. Dr. Jain is Founder, CEO and President of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Women in Medicine®, and Founder and Chair of the Women in Medicine Summit as well as the CEO and Co-Founder of the action, advocacy and amplification 501(c)(3) organization IMPACT. She was named one of Medscapes 25 Rising Stars in Medicine in 2020, a Modern Healthcare Top 25 Emerging Leaders of 2019, and was awarded the Rising Star award by the LEAD Oncology Conference in 2019. She was appointed the 2021 and 2022 Lead of the American Society for Clinical Oncology Women's Networking Center taskforce, is a member of the ASCO Diversity and Inclusion taskforce, and appointed to the Illinois State Medical Society’s Council on Communications and Membership Advocacy as well as the COVID19 taskforce. She is on the editorial board of Healio HemOnc Today and is the consulting medical editor for Healio Women in Oncology and host of the podcast Oncology Overdrive. Dr. Jain’s mentorship and sponsorship have resulted in the advancement of numerous young women and men in medicine across the country. She works tirelessly to promote the dissemination of evidence based scientific information through numerous mediums including social media and has been recognized as a thought leader by Doximity and the OpEd project. Dr. Jain gave a TEDx talk on the gender moonshot and is a nationally renowned keynote speaker She has written for and been featured in national publications including CNN, USA Today, Time magazine, the NYT, the Washington Post. She is a regular contributor to FOX32 and has been a guest on many national news outlets including ABC, CBS, Yahoo. She has been featured, interviewed, and published in CNN, Time magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, US News and World Report, the Hill, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune She is also a well-respected academician who has published in many peer review journals including Nature, NEJM and PNAS.