Medical Oncology

Arif H Kamal, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Business Administratin
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Campus mail Box 2715, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 681-0333
Email address arif.kamal@duke.edu

health services and outcomes research, information-technology enabled registries, supportive oncology and palliative care, quality assessment and improvement

In Their Words

Education and Training

  • Fellowship, Hematology/ Oncology, Mayo Medical School, 2008 - 2009
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Mayo Medical School, 2005 - 2008
  • M.B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2016
  • M.H.S., Duke University, 2015
  • M.D., University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine, 2005

Grants

Publications

Chino, F, Kamal, AH, Chino, J, and LeBlanc, TW. "Disparities in place of death for patients with hematological malignancies, 1999 to 2015." Blood Advances 3, no. 3 (February 2019): 333-338.

PMID
30709864
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Rocque, G, Miller-Sonnet, E, Balch, A, Stricker, C, Seidman, J, Stiles, S, Ruggerio, J, Paynter, N, Lewis, M, and Kamal, A. "Engaging Multidisciplinary Stakeholders to Drive Shared Decision-Making in Oncology." Journal of Palliative Care 34, no. 1 (January 2019): 29-31.

PMID
30382006
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Webb, JA, Kamal, AH, and LeBlanc, TW. "A New Frontier for Palliative Care: The Need to Train Palliative-Oncology Subspecialists." Journal of Palliative Medicine 21, no. 12 (December 1, 2018): 1679-1680. (Letter)

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Jordan, M, Keefer, PM, Lee, Y-LA, Meade, K, Snaman, JM, Wolfe, J, Kamal, A, and Rosenberg, A. "Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Children." Journal of Palliative Medicine 21, no. 12 (December 2018): 1783-1789.

PMID
30289325
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Fulton, JJ, LeBlanc, TW, Cutson, TM, Porter Starr, KN, Kamal, A, Ramos, K, Freiermuth, CE, McDuffie, JR, Kosinski, A, Adam, S, Nagi, A, and Williams, JW. "Integrated outpatient palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis." Palliative Medicine (November 29, 2018): 269216318812633-null.

PMID
30488781
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Burt, M, and Kamal, AH. "Practical Strategies for Optimizing and Integrating Palliative Care in Cancer." Current Oncology Reports 20, no. 12 (November 13, 2018): 97-null. (Review)

PMID
30421161
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Chino, F, Kamal, AH, Leblanc, TW, Zafar, SY, Suneja, G, and Chino, JP. "Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities." Cancer 124, no. 22 (November 2018): 4408-4419.

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30343501
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Pinderhughes, ST, Lehn, JM, Kamal, AH, Hutchinson, R, O'Neill, L, and Jones, CA. "Expanding Palliative Medicine across Care Settings: One Health System Experience." Journal of Palliative Medicine 21, no. 9 (September 2018): 1272-1277.

PMID
29957094
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Chino, F, Peppercorn, JM, Rushing, C, Nicolla, J, Kamal, AH, Altomare, I, Samsa, G, and Zafar, SY. "Going for Broke: A Longitudinal Study of Patient-Reported Financial Sacrifice in Cancer Care." Journal of Oncology Practice 14, no. 9 (September 2018): e533-e546.

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30138052
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Riordan, P, Briscoe, J, Kamal, AH, Jones, CA, and Webb, JA. "Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Mental Health and Serious Illness." Journal of Palliative Medicine 21, no. 8 (August 2018): 1171-1176.

PMID
30133368
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