Miriam Adina Knoll, MD

Miriam A. Knoll, MD, joined Northwell Health in 2024 as a radiation oncologist. She is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. After attending NYU Grossman School of Medicine, she completed a residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, before working at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center and Montefiore Nyack Hospital. She chose cancer care as a specialty in large part because she saw how collaborative that process needs to be for strong patient outcomes.I love working with a radiation oncology team, because that's truly what each patient needs, she says. Each of us contributes expertise and a different perspective, and that adds up to well-rounded care for each patient.At Northwell, Dr. Knoll's main focus is providing palliative radiation treatment. She communicates to patients how effective treatment can be for treating pain, and with far fewer …side effects than many might expect. This type of therapy can really make a difference in helping people feel better, no matter where they are in their cancer journey.In addition to direct care, Dr. Knoll has worked to advance the field and to broaden patient knowledge and access by co-founding and serving at CEO of the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association (JOWMA), as well as publishing articles in both academic journals and consumer publications such as JAMA Oncology, IJROBP, Advances in Radiation Oncology, Huffington Post and Forbes. She is an international speaker and writer focusing on medical care, the physician workforce, women in medicine, and social media in medicine. Dr. Knoll serves on national cancer committees at American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, NRG Oncology, and the RTOG Foundation. She serves as a section editor for the journal Advances in Radiation Oncology.Over the course of her career, Dr. Knoll has learned from patients how valuable it is for those going through cancer to have a robust support system around them. That means family and friends and other patients, as well as a cancer care medical team.Ultimately, there are aspects of cancer that we can't control, although we step in and do as much as we can, she says. What we can control is offering as much support as possible so patients can draw on their own resilience for treatment. I see my role as being there for each patient on a personal level, while helping advance research and oncology care in a broader way.