Dr. Duma is originally from Venezuela, born of a Colombian mother and Dominican father. She completed her internal medicine residency in Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where she was the chief fellow from 2018 -2019.

She is the Associate Director of the Cancer Care Equity Program and a thoracic medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center.

Dr. Duma's clinical interests include targeted therapy for lung cancer and the care of women with lung cancer, including their unique aspects of cancer survivorship. She is the principal investigator of the Sexual Health Assessment in Women with Lung Cancer (SHAWL) Study, the largest study to date evaluating sexual dysfunction in women with lung cancer.

Apart from her clinical interests in lung cancer, she is also a leading and productive researcher in cancer health disparities, gender and racial discrimination in medical education and medicine. Dr. Duma in one of the co-founder of the Twitter community #LatinasInMedicine, now composed of over 6,500 members globally. She received many awards, including the 2018 Resident of the Year Award by the National Hispanic Medical Association, the Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship award and the 2020 Rising Star award by the LEAD national conference for women in hematology and oncology.

In addition, Dr. Duma founded the Duma Lab in 2019. The laboratory focuses on lung cancer, social justice issues in medicine and medical education. The laboratory long-term goals are to create a welcoming environment for medical trainees from historically underrepresented groups in medicine while improving the care of vulnerable populations. Members of the Duma Lab are agents of change. Since its foundation, the Duma laboratory has received research funding from several national agencies, published over 15 studies and editorials, and presented research findings at national and international conferences, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting and the World Conference of Lung Cancer.

Her work has been featured in various media outlets including The New York Times, STAT, Healio, Onclive, ASCO Post and Doximity.

Twitter: @NarjustDumaMD