S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., is the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He is recognized internationally as a leading authority in the field of plasma cell disorders and chaired the Mayo Clinic group from 2006-2016. Dr. Rajkumar is Chair of the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), and Chair of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) myeloma committee. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Blood Cancer Journal, and Associate Editor for the following: Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Leukemia, and European Journal of Haematology.

Dr. Rajkumar is the recipient of several awards, including the Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), Giants of Cancer Care Award (2019), and the Jan Waldenstrom Lifetime Achievement Award (2021). He has over 800 publications, including over 500 peer-reviewed original research papers, and over 200 reviews and book chapters.