Hemali Batra-Sharma

Dr. Hemali Batra-Sharma is a medical oncologist who specializes in caring for patients with breast cancer.

In her research, Batra-Sharma aims to evaluate new treatments that could improve outcomes for patients with breast cancer. Her subjects of study have included triple-negative breast cancer (an aggressive type), lobular breast cancer (which begins in the milk-producing glands), and breast cancer that has spread to the brain and leptomeninges (membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

Batra-Sharma earned her medical degree from the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. At the University of California, San Diego, she completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology-oncology.