Dr. Syed Jafri is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Oncology at UTHealth McGovern Medical School. He received his medical degree from The Aga Khan University in 2001. He completed his residency at Indiana University in 2006 and a fellowship at Louisiana State University in 2009. He stayed as the faculty at Louisiana State University for 4 years and developed the Thoracic/Head and Neck Oncology program. He has been a principal investigator of several cooperative groups, industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials involving Lung and Head and Neck Cancers. He has also been involved in basic science lung cancer research. His current area of interest is inflammation in cancer. He pursued an extra fellowship in Integrative Medicine from The Arizona Center of Integrative Medicine under the directorship of Dr. Andrew Weil. He started a very popular integrative medicine program at Louisiana State University. He joined UTHealth oncology in November 2013.