Professional Bio
Kristen Ciombor, MD, MSCI, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and an Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
She received her medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Medical Center/Miami VA Medical Center. She then completed her fellowship in hematology/oncology at Vanderbilt, where she also graduated with a?Master of Science?in Clinical Investigation.
A?board-certified?medical oncologist, Dr. Ciombor specializes in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers. Her research involves the design and implementation of clinical trials for GI malignancies, and colorectal?cancer in particular. She also has a research interest in the genomics of colorectal cancer and translational medicine, and she leads multiple national investigator-initiated clinical trials in this space.
Dr. Ciombor is the co-leader of Vanderbilt’s Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program and is the principal investigator for Vanderbilt’s National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) LAPS grant through the National Cancer Institute. She is a project co-leader for two of the projects within the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s (VICC) Gastrointestinal Specialized Program of Research Excellence (GI SPORE), and she is the Colorectal/Anal Working Group Chair of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).
Additionally, she is an integral member of the NCI Gastrointestinal Steering Committee, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s (NCCN) Colorectal/Anal/Small Bowel Cancer Guidelines Panel, the Academic GI Cancer Consortium (AGICC), the ASCO Scientific Program Committee, and the ASCO Cancer Care Impact Committee.
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Education
MD - University of Miami, 2005
Internship - & Residency - Jackson Memorial Hospital Veterans Admin, 2008
Residency - Chief - Jackson Memorial Hospital Veterans Admin, 2009
Fellowship - Clinical - Hematology/Oncology - Vanderbilt University, 2012
MSCI - Vanderbilt University, 2013
Fellowship - Research-Hematology/Oncology - Vanderbilt University, 2013
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307