Dr. Gilbert is a medical oncologist who specializes in head and neck cancer as well as thyroid cancer. She will primarily be involved in developing clinical trials of novel therapeutic agents for therapy of head and neck and thyroid cancers. Additionally, she is interested in the host immune response in the head and neck cancer survivor and in patients with advanced disease who receive molecularly targeted agents.

As Director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, she is extensively involved in training physicians to become specialists in hematology and oncology. In this role, Dr. Gilbert develops and oversees a training program that includes all aspects of clinical hematology/oncology and laboratory-based research opportunities.