Dr. Fidler is the section chief of medical oncology and The Alice Pirie Wirtz Professor of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Cell Therapy at Rush Medical College.
Dr. Fidler attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for undergraduate work. She received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx , New York and then went on to complete her internal medicine residency at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago and Fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Rush University Medical Center.
Dr. Fidler specializes in the treatment of thoracic cancers. Her translational research interests focus on mechanisms of chemotherapy and radiotherapy resistance, predictors of response to immune check point inhibitors, and cancer cachexia. She has enrolled patients on several clinical trials testing both immune checkpoint inhibitors and targeted therapies. Dr. Fidler has authored and co-authored several manuscripts, publications and abstracts.
She has served on the Boards of Trustees for the Chicago Medical Society and the Illinois State Medical Society and has chaired various advocacy groups through these organizations.