Shikha Jain, MD FACP

Dr. Shikha Jain is a triple board-certified hematologist-oncologist and a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her clinical practice focuses on gastrointestinal cancers, with a special interest in neuroendocrine tumors, and she serves as site principal investigator on industry-sponsored and cooperative-group clinical trials. In 2026, Chicago Magazine named her one of Chicago's Top Cancer Doctors.

At UIC, Dr. Jain is Director of Rural Transformation Initiatives for the College of Medicine and Associate Director of Oncology Communications and Digital Innovation at the University of Illinois Cancer Center.

She is the Founder and Board Chair of Women in Medicine®, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a network of nearly 7,000 physicians and healthcare workers. She founded the organization in 2019 alongside the first Women in Medicine Summit™, which has become a national convening point for clinicians and health system leaders. She is also a National Spokesperson for the American Cancer Society, Vice Chair of ACS ResearcHERS, and a Women's Health Network representative to the Milken Institute.

Dr. Jain is a nationally recognized voice on healthcare delivery, physician leadership, and gender equity. She hosts Healio's Oncology Overdrive podcast, serves as an editor for HemOnc Today and Women in Oncology, and writes Designing Modern Healthcare, her LinkedIn newsletter for health system leaders. She has given nearly 200 broadcast interviews and written 87 op-eds, with work appearing in The New York Times, Time, Forbes, and MSNBC. She was featured in a New York Times video on prior authorization that was nominated for a 2025 News Emmy. Her research appears in NEJM, Nature, JAMA, and PNAS, and her 2019 TEDx talk introduced the Gender Moonshot®.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-founded IMPACT, the Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team, which mobilized clinicians around evidence-based public health communication. Her honors include Medscape's 25 Rising Stars in Medicine and Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Emerging Leaders.

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