speaker

Surbhi Grover

MD, MPH

Medicine

Oncology, Radiation Oncology

Dr. Surbhi Grover is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Director of Global Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania, Oncology Lead Botswana-UPenn Partnership, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Botswana. She is interested in addressing the growing global cancer burden by focusing on public health endeavors and cost-effective clinical initiatives to improve access to care and outcomes of care in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Since 2011, Dr. Grover has been working with the Botswana-UPENN partnership, strengthening the oncology program in Botswana. She moved full-time to Botswana in 2014. In her current role, she is seeing cancer patients at the public hospital, conducting research, and teaching. She led the implementation of a U54 NIH-funded study focused on cervical cancer and she is involved with mentoring several junior investigators at the University of Botswana through the mentoring core of U54. She has also completed an NIH-funded pilot prospective study studying the impact of HIV on cervical cancer.

Dr. Surbhi has led the development of the first gynecological cancers, a multi-disciplinary tumor board, to streamline patient treatment and follow-up care in the country. She currently has a K08 with Dr. Robertson as her mentor looking at HPV viral load as a biomarker for treatment response and recurrence in locally advanced cervical cancer in Botswana, and a U01 focusing on timely treatment adoption for women with cervical cancer presenting to care at the gynecological multidisciplinary clinic in Botswana.