Armin Shahrokni
United States (US) Committee Member
Biographical Info
Dr. Shahrokni is a Geriatrician and Colorectal Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). In addition to providing care for older cancer patients 3 days a week, his main research area of interest is on use of Big Data in more comprehensive assessment and care of older adults with cancer especially during perioperative period. He has developed electronic Rapid Fitness Assessment (eRFA) in 2015 which has been implemented as of 2019 in all MSKCC Geriatrics clinics, thoracic surgery clinics and bone marrow transplant clinics. Since 2015, approximately 5000 older cancer patients have completed the eRFA which is an electronic geriatric assessment. In 2019, the eRFA has been transitioned to an institution-wide platform to collect electronic assessment of patients which will facilitate the implementation of such tool in the whole institution. He has collaborated in a pilot study to implement eRFA in Australia. Dr.Shahrokni’s vision is by 2030, instead of stratifying patients by age, they be stratified by a more robust assessment of their functional status. Dr. Shahrokni has graduated from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran/Iran. He then completed a combined internal medicine and preventive medicine residency at Yale/Griffin Hospital and obtained Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He then completed combined Geriatric Oncology fellowship at University of California-Los Angeles under the mentorship of Dr. Arash Naeim. He has been a member of Cancer and Aging Research Group, International Society of Geriatric Oncology, and American Society of Clinical Oncology. He hopes that through his and his colleagues’ collective efforts via International Society of Geriatric Oncology, the assessment, care and outcome of older cancer patients improve significantly in the next decade.