Kim A. Reiss, MD
Medical Oncology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Program Director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
  • Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

379 reviews

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December 2025
very caring for her patients.
December 2025
i can't imagine there is a more thorough and skilled oncologist than Dr. Reiss. she is appropriately direct but has an inspiring bedside manner.
December 2025
great physician helpful reliable
December 2025
she's a great doctor

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Reiss is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Alison M. Schram, Olumide B. Gbolahan, Cindy Neuzillet, Dirk Arnold, Antoine Hollebecque, Richard Greil, Mohammed Najeeb Al Hallak Jordi Rodon Ahnert, Kim A. Reiss, Paul F. La Porte, Tormod Kyrre Guren, Carolyn E. Ragsdale, Fiona Garner, Alejandro D. Ricart, Shola Adeyemi, 13 Christoph Springfeld Continued zenocutuzumab treatment beyond progression in patients with NRG1+ pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma: analysis from the phase 2 eNRGy trial , ASCO GI 2026, San Francisco, CA: 2026


Ben Boursi, MD; Zakary L. Kolkey, MD; Kim Anna Reiss, MD; Mark H. O’Hara, MD; William Chapin, MD, MSCE Comparative effectiveness of oxaliplatin or irinotecan rechallenge/reintroduction vs standard third-line therapies in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer , ASCO GI 2026, San Francisco, CA: 2026


Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Katherine L. Nathanson, Kim A. Reiss, Colin C. Pritchard, Jacob E. Berchuck, Kimberly Johnson, Derek W. Brown, Hanna Tukachinsky CH mutations in 16,812 advanced cancer patients: Overestimation of CH-derived BRCA1/2 variants detected on liquid biopsy (Letter) , Clinical Cancer Research: 2025


Sriram Anbil, Nicholas J. Seewald, E. Gabriela Chiorean, Maen Hussein, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Doug E. Laux, Gary K. Schwartz, Geoffrey Shapiro, Kevin K. Lin, Marcia Craib, Lara Maloney, Karen McLachlan, Hanna Tukachinsky, Alexa B Schrock, Shuoguo Wang, Ethan S. Sokol, Brennan Decker, Katherine L. Nathanson Susan M. Domchek, Kim A. Reiss LODESTAR: A Single Arm Phase II Study of Rucaparib in Solid Tumors with Pathogenic Germline or Somatic Variants in Homologous Recombination Repair Genes , JCO Precision Oncology: 2025


Susan M. Domchek, Alex Torres, Megan Aaron-Ocko, JoAnn Miller, Phil Seger, Hayley Knollman, Kim Reiss, Payal D. Shah, Matthew Morrow, Jeffrey Skolnik, Robert H. Vonderheide Phase Ib study of a plasmid DNA–based immunotherapy encoding the hTERT, PSMA, and WT1 (INO-5401) +/- IL12 (INO-9012) followed by electroporation in cancer patients and healthy individuals with BRCA1/2 mutations , Oral Abstract Session, ASCO 2025, Chicago, IL: 2025


Sriram Anbil, Nicholas J. Seewald, E. Gabriela Chiorean, Maen Hussein, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Doug E. Laux, Gary K. Schwartz, Geoffrey Shapiro, Kevin K. Lin, Marcia Craib, Lara Maloney, Karen McLachlan, Hanna Tukachinsky, Alexa B Schrock, Shuoguo Wang, Ethan S. Sokol, Brennan Decker, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan M. Domchek, Kim A. Reiss LODESTAR: A single-arm phase II study of rucaparib in solid tumors with pathogenic germline or somatic variants in homologous recombination repair genes , ASCO 2025, Chicago, IL : 2025


Uri Amit MD MPH PhD, James M Metz MD, John P Plastaras MD PhD, Rohi Gheewala MD, Peter O’Dwyer MD, Ursina Teitelbaum MD, Nevena Damjanov MD, Charles Vollmer MD, Charles J Schneider MD, Major Kenneth Lee IV, MD, PhD, Mark O’Hara MD, Kim A. Reiss MD, Erica L Carpenter PhD, Thomas B Karasic MD, Andre Konski MD, Rosmarie Mick, Paul Wileyto PhD and Edgar Ben-Josef MD A Phase I Dual Dose Escalation Study of Radiation and Nab-paclitaxel in Patients with Unresectable and Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer , Cancer: 2025


Bever KM, Durham JN, Qi H, Azad NS, Laheru D, Fisher GA, Greten TF, Hays J, Krishnamurthy A, Reiss KA, Sanborn R, Wang H, Diaz LA, Le DT 10-year follow up of a phase 2 clinical trial of pembrolizumab (pembro) in microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H)/mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) advanced solid tumors (KEYNOTE-016) , Rapid Oral Abstract Session, ASCO 2025, Chicago, IL : 2025


Kim A. Reiss, Katherine Nathanson, Alexa B. Schrock, Alexander D. Fine, Derek W. Brown, Brennan Decker, Jason Hughes, Chang Xu, Bahar Yilmazel, Rebecca Hodges, Kimberly Johnson, Amaya Gasco, Hanna Tukachinsky BRCA1/2 and PALB2 short variants (SVs) contributed by clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in liquid biopsies (LBx) from patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (PC) , ASCO 2025, Chicago IL: 2025


Kim A. Reiss MD, Kevin C Soares MD, MS, Robert J Trophy MD, PhD, Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD, FASCO Treatment innovations in pancreatic cancer: putting patient priorities first , ASCO Educational Book: 2025