Dr. Tian Zhang earned her medical degree from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program at Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Duke University in North Carolina, where she also received advanced training through a hematology-oncology fellowship. In addition, she earned a Master of Health Sciences in the Clinical Research Training Program at Duke. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in medical oncology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2021. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Hematology and Oncology. She was appointed Associate Director of Clinical Research at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center in May 2024. She also serves as Director of Clinical Research within the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine. Her research interests include cancer therapies and hematology and oncology.