Chhavi Bansal Kumar, MD
Hospitalist
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Areas of Expertise
My Specialties
- General Medical Care for Oncology Patients
- General Medicine
About Me
- Deputy Service Chief, Hospital Medicine Service
- Chair, Interdisciplinary Quality Assurance Committee
In my role as Deputy Service Chief, I oversee the daytime operations and faculty of the Hospital Medicine Service in coordination with our Service Chief, Dr. Barbara Egan. I have practiced as a hospitalist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) since 2008 and thrive on providing comprehensive, compassionate care. Along with my team of housestaff, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants, I specialize in caring for people with cancer who are hospitalized.
In addition to internal medicine, I am board-certified in hospice and palliative care and work with a team of fellows (including medical doctors and NPs) to consult on hospitalized patients and improve their quality of life. I very much enjoy teaching our housestaff and was awarded MSK’s Dorothy White Division of General Medicine Teacher of the Year Award in 2019.
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After completing the Greater New York Hospital Association and United Hospital Fund Clinical Quality Fellowship Program, I initially served as the Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine Quality Assurance (QA) Committee at MSK. I have acted as the Chair of the Interdisciplinary QA Committee (IQAC) since 2022. IQAC is a hospital-wide multidisciplinary committee comprised of executive leadership, hospital administrators, QA chairs, and members from the Division of Quality and Safety. As Chair of the IQAC, I search for broad process concerns and trends in QA reviews from various groups at MSK, including anesthesia and critical care medicine, bone marrow transplant/cell therapy, laboratory medicine, medicine, neurology, nursing, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacy, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, and surgery. These findings are subsequently presented at the hospital QA committee. We aim to improve our processes at MSK in a collaborative, multidisciplinary manner.
A hospitalist is a doctor with special training in caring for people in the hospital.
My Specialties
- General Medical Care for Oncology Patients
- General Medicine
Education
- MD, Boston University School of Medicine
Residencies
- New York University/Bellevue Hospital
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine
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Colleagues
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
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Chhavi Bansal Kumar discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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