Supriya Gupta Mohile, M.D., M.S. is the Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the James Wilmot Cancer Institute at the University of Rochester. She is Director of the Geriatric Oncology Resarch Group. She is a board-certified geriatrician and oncologist. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University, she earned her M.D. at Thomas Jefferson Medical School. She completed internship, residency and fellowships in hematology/oncology and geriatrics at University of Chicago Medical Center, where she also earned a master's degree in health outcomes research. Dr. Mohile's research interests include the evaluation of patterns of care, health outcomes, and quality of life related to treatment for systemic cancer in older patients. She is working also to develop clinical trials for older adults with cancer and to identify interventions to reduce treatment morbidity.
Dr. Mohile has received funding from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and NCI R-level awards to evaluate whether geriatric assessment can improve outcomes of older patients with cancer. Her research showing that geriatric assessment improves outcomes is published in Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and JAMA Oncology. She is an integral member of the University of Rochester NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base. She leads the Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) efforts in the Research Base and sits on the CCDR Steering Committee at the NCI. Dr. Mohile is an expert in geriatric oncology with over 250 publications in this area. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology. She was the Chair for the ASCO Geriatric Oncology Task Force and the ASCO Geriatric Oncology Clinical Guideline panel. Her contribution to moving the geriatric oncology field forward is noted in her leadership with developing research priorities and guidelines.