Dr. Sonali M. Smith is the Elwood V. Jensen Professor of Medicine, Section Chief of Hematology/Oncology and Co-Leader of the Cancer Service Line, at the University of Chicago’s Department of Medicine. She is a clinical investigator in lymphoma and a clinical expert in mature lymphoid malignancies including Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. As faculty member at the University of Chicago since 2001, she has written or co-written dozens of clinical trials, and has participated in many more with key input in the clinical design, determination of endpoints, and analysis. She has nearly 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is particularly interested in targeted agents and pathway inhibitors and has first and senior author publications through cooperative group trials and investigator-initiated trials. A significant portion of her research has focused on prognosis and the ability to deliver individualized therapy.

She is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (SWOG) and was named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 2019. She is an active member of the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) and has also been an active member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). She has served on several editorial boards (including Cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology) and as Associate Editor at Haematologica, the world’s oldest medical journal for blood disorders. She is one of the founding members of Women in Lymphoma (WiL). She has won numerous teaching awards and considers mentorship a key aspect of her career.