Dr. Rebecca S. Heist, M.D.

Rebecca Heist is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her MD from Harvard Medical School, and subsequently trained in residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Mass General.  She is a member of the Termeer Center for novel cancer therapeutics at MGH and is actively involved in early phase clinical trials in lung cancer. She has led international clinical trials in MET altered lung cancer and her research has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.