Reshma L. Mahtani DO
Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FloridaDr. Reshma L. Mahtani is a medical oncologist practicing in South Florida. She serves as Chief of Breast Medical Oncology at the Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida (a Memorial Sloane Kettering affiliate). She specializes in the treatment of breast cancer.
Prior to assuming her role at the Miami Cancer Institute, Dr. Mahtani was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Leader of the Breast Cancer Program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, where she oversaw the clinical trial program across the network. She is an active clinical researcher, and her research focuses on novel therapies for the treatment of breast cancer. She has made significant scientific and clinical practice contributions with numerous first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals.
She has served on the ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) Steering Committee and as a member of the editorial board of The Breast Journal. She has been Program Director for several officially licensed Best of ASCO programs and is the Director of the ASCO Highlights series.
After completing her Master of Science degree in neuroscience at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Mahtani went on to the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she received her medical degree. She completed internship at Greenwich Hospital, a Yale-affiliate, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and undertook residency training at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center in New York, where she also completed her fellowship.
Disclosures
- Consultant/advisory role: Agendia; Amgen; AstraZeneca; Daiichi; Eisai; Gilead; Hologic; Lilly; Merck; Novartis; Pfizer; Puma; Sanofi; Sermonix; Stemline; Seagen
- Contracted research: Gilead
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Efficacy of Targeted Agents in Combination With Chemotherapy for Advanced Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- Ixabepilone and Carboplatin for HR+ and Triple-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Patients Prefer Subcutaneous Trastuzumab Administration in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer
- First Report of Eribulin in Combination With Pertuzumab and Trastuzumab for Advanced HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
- Abemaciclib in Combination With Fulvestrant in Women With HR+/HER2− Advanced Breast Cancer: MONARCH 2
- Evidence-Based Use of CDK 4/6 Inhibitors in Breast Cancer
- Abemaciclib Effective as a Single Agent in Refractory HR+/HER2− Metastatic Breast Cancer
- ASCO 2017: Abstract Recommendations From Dr. Reshma Mahtani—Local and Regional Breast Cancer
- ASCO 2017: Abstract Recommendations From Dr. Reshma Mahtani—Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Dasatinib With Trastuzumab and Paclitaxel Feasible in First Line for HER2-Overexpressing Advanced Breast Cancer