Dr. Khandekar graduated with distinction and departmental honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in biological sciences.  He enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University and obtained his M.D. from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University as well as a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, followed by residency training in the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program.  He was a Holman Research Fellow, and has done postdoctoral research with Dr. Bruce Spiegelman at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  Dr. Khandekar has a busy clinical practice focusing on the care of patient with thoracic cancers of various types as well as brain metastases from lung cancer.   He also does laboratory research focusing on the effects of systemic physiology on cancer and the tumor microenvironment, and is interested in repurposing drugs developed in metabolic disease in cancer therapy. His goal is to personalize lung cancer care, combining tumor genomics, patient physiology, precision radiation techniques and systemic therapies to maximize the chances of lung cancer cure.