Ajay Nooka
MD, MPH, FACP
Medicine
Hematology, Internal Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Ajay Kumar Nooka, MD, MPH, FACP, is a professor and serves as director of the Myeloma Program in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Nooka also serves as scientific director of the Winship Data and Technology Applications Shared Resource at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. An Emory Healthcare network physician since 2011, Dr. Nooka is a board-certified hematologist specializing in the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.
Dr. Nooka is a clinical member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. He serves on the steering committee of the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium.
Dr. Nooka attended Medical School at the Andhra Medical College in Visakhapatnam, India. He earned his Master's in Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. He then went on to complete his residency at Canton Medical Education Foundation in Canton, Ohio. He did his fellowship at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Nooka's research interests include integrating genomic and clinical data on a uniform platform; interpreting data in a meaningful way to risk-stratify myeloma; and evaluating newer myeloma therapeutic strategies aimed at prolonging survival in myeloma patients. He also focuses on cancer epidemiology.
Dr. Nooka serves on the editorial board for The American Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Hematological Malignancies, Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemias, and serves as section editor of hematologic Malignancies for Cancer. He is an ad hoc journal reviewer for Annals of Oncology, Oncology, Leukemia Research, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, European Journal of Cancer, Current Oncology, Indian Journal of Medical Research and International Journal of Hematology.
