Rebecca Miksad, MD
Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Hematology & Medical Oncology

MD, Cornell University
MMS/MMSc, Harvard University
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
BA, Harvard University



Rebecca Miksad is a medical oncologist and health outcomes researcher who serves as senior medical director at Flatiron Health. In this role, Rebecca focuses on generating real-world evidence, establishing regulatory-grade quality standards and contributing to the development of clinically-relevant methods to real-world data evaluation and analyses.

Rebecca maintains a clinical practice at Boston Medical Center. A nationally recognized clinician and researcher, Rebecca regularly publishes in leading medical journals, serves on national committees and lectures internationally.

Prior to joining Flatiron Health, Rebecca was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, senior scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of gastrointestinal oncology and gastrointestinal oncology clinical trials at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Rebecca’s academic research focused on improving cancer treatment decision-making through better characterization of patient outcomes and increasing relevance of clinical trial endpoints. Rebecca earned a BA cum laude in economics from Harvard University and an MD with honors in research from Cornell University. She was a resident in internal medicine at Cornell University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and completed hematology and medical oncology fellowships at Harvard Medical School/BIDMC. Rebecca earned a MMS from Harvard Medical School and an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health in clinical effectiveness (with an emphasis on decision science). She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training (PCORT).

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  1. Vidal GA, Jain N, Fisher A, Sheinson D, Lofgren KT, Ma E, Yu E, Comment L, Miksad R, Sincan M, Martin RL, Zuniga R, Daniel D. Racial and Ethnic Inequities at the Practice and Physician Levels in Timely Next-Generation Sequencing for Patients With Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated in the US Community Setting. JCO Oncol Pract. 2024 Mar; 20(3):370-377. PMID: 38194619
     
  2. Guadamuz JS, Wang X, Ryals CA, Miksad RA, Snider J, Walters J, Calip GS. Socioeconomic status and inequities in treatment initiation and survival among patients with cancer, 2011-2022. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2023 Aug 31; 7(5). PMID: 37707536; PMCID: PMC10582690; DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkad058;
     
  3. Canavan M, Wang X, Ascha M, Miksad R, Showalter TN, Calip G, Gross CP, Adelson K. End-of-Life Systemic Oncologic Treatment in the Immunotherapy Era: The Role of Race, Insurance, and Practice Setting. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Oct 20; 41(30):4729-4738. PMID: 37339389; PMCID: PMC10602547; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.22.02180;
     
  4. Goyal G, Lau KW, Wang X, Davidoff AJ, Huntington SF, Jamy O, Calip G, Shah H, Stephens DM, Miksad R, Parikh RB, Takvorian S, Neparidze N, Seymour EK. The COVID-19 Pandemic and In-Person Visit Rate Disruptions Among Patients With Hematologic Neoplasms in the US in 2020 to 2021. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jun 01; 6(6):e2316642. PMID: 37273206; PMCID: PMC10242428; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.16642;
     
  5. Abou-Alfa GK, Wang X, Parrinello CM, Gossai A, Kim R, Magee K, Miksad RA. Association between posttreatment a-fetoprotein reduction and outcomes in real-world US patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer. 2023 Jul 01; 129(13):2064-2074. PMID: 36942492
     
  6. Liu Q, Mathur R, Xu Y, Torres AZ, Miksad RA, Liu C, Smithson H, Wang Y, Zhu H, Booth B, Huang SM, Zhi J, Sridhara R, Blumenthal GM, Larkins E, Mishra-Kalyani PS, Rivera DR, Kluetz PG, Sharon E. The Association Between Baseline Hepatic or Renal Function and Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated With a PD-1/PD-L1 Blocking Antibody Using Real-World and Trial Data. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2023 May; 113(5):1139-1149. PMID: 36790088
     
  7. Canavan ME, Wang X, Ascha MS, Miksad RA, Calip GS, Gross CP, Adelson KB. Systemic Anticancer Therapy at the End of Life-Changes in Usage Pattern in the Immunotherapy Era. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Dec 01; 8(12):1847-1849. PMID: 36264566; PMCID: PMC9585458; DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.4666;
     
  8. Jaber Chehayeb R, Hood A, Wang X, Miksad R, Schellhorn Mougalian S, Lustberg MB, Wang SY, Greenup RA, Pusztai L, Kunst N. Treatment Sequencing Patterns and Associated Direct Medical Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Care in the United States, 2011 to 2021. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 01; 5(11):e2244204. PMID: 36445704; PMCID: PMC9709649; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.44204;
     
  9. Calip GS, Cohen A, Rohrer R, Wang X, Wang X, Webster A, Wu A, Griffith SD, Showalter TN, Miksad RA. Telemedicine use among patients with metastatic breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: Differences by race, age, and region. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2023 Jan; 32(1):66-72. PMID: 36111444; PMCID: PMC10091805; DOI: 10.1002/pds.5541;
     
  10. Coombs L, Orlando A, Wang X, Shaw P, Rich AS, Lakhtakia S, Titchener K, Adamson B, Miksad RA, Mooney K. A machine learning framework supporting prospective clinical decisions applied to risk prediction in oncology. NPJ Digit Med. 2022 Aug 16; 5(1):117. PMID: 35974092; PMCID: PMC9380664; DOI: 10.1038/s41746-022-00660-3;
     
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Robert Winn, Rebecca Miksad, Dana Rollison: We must use real-world data and lessons from COVID to improve care, equity in communities we serve

The Cancer Letter 5/13/2022
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hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
pancreatic cancer
bile duct cancers liver
directed therapy
Hepatocellular Cancer
neuroendocrine tumors
colon cancer
gastric cancer
Cholangiocarcinoma
Medical Oncology
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