Kashyap Patel is the CEO of Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates.                                                                    Dr. Patel is a practicing medical oncologist, board certified in Hematology, Oncology, and Internal Medicine.                                                                                                                                                                       He is immediate past president for the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), He is past for the clinical affairs and trustee for the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). He has published/presented over 120 papers. He is frequently interviewed and cited in mainstream newspapers including NY times, Washington Post, NPR just to name a few including on key issues like Covid 19, Healthcare disparities (CHD), value-based care. He is also frequently invited by WH team to opine of Cancer Moonshot program. He has been an advisor for the large payers including DHHS (SC), Palmetto GBA, and serves on an advisory board for Medicaid HMOs. He has a special interest in health care policy and economics. He has authored a book on the end of life care published by the Penguin Random House. www.betweenlifeanddeath.org

Additionally, Dr Patel has been working directly with cancer patients for the last twenty years as a community oncologist. He has served as chairman of several committees in numerous South Carolina hospitals. Dr. Patel has extensive legislative experience both at the local and national level and has state senate as well as has carried out capitol hill briefing.

He has been honored by the US Congress for his exceptional contribution to healthcare. Multiple journals have written about his life. He is now working with multiple national entities on CHD. He has started a foundation no one left alone www.nooneleftalone.org to address cancer health disparities. Other organization he has founded and is actively involved in running them include www.ccorn.net, www.cbcca.net, www.kashyappatel.com.