Shaista Aziz Patel

About

Shaista Aziz Patel joined the Ethnic Studies Department as an Assistant Professor in July 2018, specializing in Critical Muslim Studies. She holds a PhD in Social Justice Education and a graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. Prior to her appointment at UCSD, she taught courses as a sessional instructor in Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her primary research interests encompass Critical Muslim, Dalit feminist, and critical Caste studies, as well as transnational feminist studies. Her work explores the complex entanglements of bodies, colonialism, race, caste, gender, religion, capitalism, and relations of labor across different spatialities and temporalities. She is particularly interested in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in critical Muslim studies, critical caste studies, decolonial theory, and questions of solidarity, including movements from Palestine, North America, and Kashmir. Her scholarship addresses issues of non-Black, non-Indigenous people of color complicity in settler colonialism, white and Brahminical supremacies. Her publications include book chapters from Palgrave Macmillan, the University of British Columbia, McGill-Queen's University, and Fernwood Presses, as well as articles in various academic journals. She is also a co-editor of a forthcoming book titled 'Contestations and Compromise: Reading against Multiple Colonialities, Race,…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Oncology
• Computer Science
• Family medicine
• Biology
• Genetics
• Chemistry
• Cancer research
• Intensive care medicine

Selected publications

• Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 3.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology

  Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network · 2022 · 1401 citations

  NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) provide recommended management for patients with NSCLC, including diagnosis, primary treatment, surveillance for relapse, and subsequent treatment. Patients with metastatic lung cancer who are eligible for targeted therapies or immunotherapies are now surviving longer. This selection from the NCCN Guidelines for NSCLC focuses on targeted therapies for patients with metastatic NSCLC and actionab…

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• RETRACTED ARTICLE: Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancerdiagnostic approach

  Nature · 2020 · 1033 citations

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• NCCN Guidelines Insights: Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2021

  Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network · 2021 · 1000 citations

  The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) address all aspects of management for NSCLC. These NCCN Guidelines Insights focus on recent updates to the NCCN Guidelines regarding targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and their respective biomarkers.

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• Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions

  Cell · 2022 · 484 citations

  Cancer-microbe associations have been explored for centuries, but cancer-associated fungi have rarely been examined. Here, we comprehensively characterize the cancer mycobiome within 17,401 patient tissue, blood, and plasma samples across 35 cancer types in four independent cohorts. We report fungal DNA and cells at low abundances across many major human cancers, with differences in community compositions that differ among cancer types, even when accounting for technical background. Fungal histo…

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• Disparities in telemedicine during COVID‐19

  Cancer Medicine · 2022 · 114 citations

  Oncology rapidly shifted to telemedicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine can increase access to healthcare, but recent research has shown disparities exist with telemedicine use during the pandemic. This study evaluated health disparities associated with telemedicine uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic among cancer patients in a tertiary care academic medical center.This retrospective cohort study evaluated telemedicine use among adult cancer patients who received outpatient m…

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Frequent coauthors

• Razelle Kurzrock

  Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center

  133 shared

• Jonathan W. Riess

  UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

  97 shared

• Heather A. Wakelee

  81 shared

• Michael J. Dennis

  80 shared

• Young Kwang Chae

  Northwestern University

  80 shared

• Mizuki Nishino

  80 shared

• George R. Blumenschein

  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  74 shared

• Mark M. Awad

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  74 shared

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