Clinical Locations
Sugar House Health Center
Huntsman Cancer Institute - Cancer Hospital South
Board Certification
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American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Hematology)
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Medical Oncology)
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Patient Rating
Patients consistently describe Dr. Chalmers as compassionate and approachable, taking ample time to listen and answer questions so they feel heard rather than rushed. She is praised for clear, thorough explanations of test results and treatment options and for coordinating with colleagues when she does not have an immediate answer. Reviewers also highlight her professionalism and the supportive care team, which helps patients feel informed and confident about their care.
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The patient rating score is an average of all responses on our patient experience survey. The rating averages scores for all questions about care from our providers. The scale on which responses are measured is 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.
Patient comments are gathered from our patient experience survey and displayed in their entirety. For the convenience of our visitors, some patient comments have been translated from their original language into English while preserving their original meaning as accurately as possible. Patients are de-identified for confidentiality and patient privacy.
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments |
Internal Medicine
-Associate Professor (Clinical) |
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| Academic Divisions |
Oncology
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| Board Certification |
American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Hematology)
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Medical Oncology)
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Education history
| Undergraduate | Dartmouth College | B.A. |
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| Professional Medical | Medicine - Drexel University College of Medicine | M.D. |
| Residency | Internal Medicine - Rush University Medical Center | Resident |
| Fellowship | Hematology and Medical Oncology - Rush University Medical Center | Fellow |
Selected Publications
Journal Article
- Puri S, Malani R, Chalmers A, Kerrigan K, Patel SB, Monynahan K, Cannon L, Blouw B, Akerley (2023). Keeping a track on leptomeningeal disease in non-small cell lung cancer: A single-institution experience with CNSide(TM). Neuro-oncology advances, 6(1), vdad150.
- Kerrigan K, Patel SB, Haaland B, Ose D, Weinberg Chalmers A, Haydell T, Meropol NJ, Akerley (2020). Prognostic Significance of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer. JCO oncology practice, 16(4), e313-e323.
- Chalmers AW, Patel S, Boucher K, Cannon L, Esplin M, Luckart J, Graves N, Van Duren T, Akerley (2019). Phase I Trial of Targeted EGFR or ALK Therapy with Ipilimumab in Metastatic NSCLC with Long-Term Follow-Up. Targeted oncology, 14(4), 417-421.
- Chalmers A, Cannon L, Akerley (2019). Adverse Event Management in Patients with BRAF V600E-Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Dabrafenib plus Trametinib. The oncologist, 24(7), 963-972.
Editorial
- Chalmers AW, Patel SB, Akerley (2018). Immunotherapy after chemoradiotherapy in stage III non-small cell lung cancer: a new standard of care?. Journal of thoracic disease, 10(3), 1198-1200.
Letter
- Chalmers A, Akerley (2017). Retrospective, Multi-Institutional Analysis of Sequential Treatment of Brain Metastases in Treatment-Naïve, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Mutated Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Should Not Define the Standard of Practice. Journal of clinical oncology, 35(20), 2340.
Abstract
- Anthony P. Conley Seth M. Pollack Mihaela Druta William D. Tap Chueh-Chuan Yen John A. Charlson Lara E. Davis Anna W. Chalmers Elizabeth T. Loggers Jaspreet S. Grewal Gerald S. Falchook Brian Schulte Thomas Yau AeRang Kim Herbert H. Loong Suzanne George Bhuvana Setty Leo Mascarenhas Gregory M. Cote Breelyn A. Wilk (2026). Overall survival analysis of a heavily pretreated population of patients with bone sarcomas treated with mecbotamab vedotin, a conditionally binding ADC targeting AXL. 44(16),
- Sandra P D'Angelo1 , Dejka M Araujo2 , Albiruni RA Razak3 , Andrew JS Furness4 , Brian AVan Tine5 , Mihaela Druta6 , Melissa A Burgess7 , Fiona Thistlethwaite8 , Anna W Chalmers9 , John B Haanen10 , Jonathan Noujaim11 , Richard F Riedel12 , David A Liebner13 , Neeta Somaiah2 , Warren A Chow14 , Rashmi Chugh15 , Lara E Davis16 , Ana Sebio17 , Mark Agulnik18 , Edouard Forcade19 , Michael J Wagner20 , Stephan A Grupp21 , Scott M Schuetze22 , Michael Carlton23 , Beth Ireland23 , Erin Van Winkle24 , Michael J Nathenson24 , Dennis Williams24 , Elliot Norry24 , John W Glod (2025). INTEGRATED EFFICACY AND SAFETY ANALYSIS OF LETETRESGENE AUTOLEUCEL, A T-CELL RECEPTOR T-CELL THERAPY, ACROSS CLINICAL TRIALS OF PATIENTS WITH SYNOVIAL SARCOMA AND MYXOID/ROUND CELL LIPOSARCOMA.
- Chia Jie Tan1, Connor Willis1, Timothy Bell2, Brad Tumminello2*, ShengfanZhou2, Dipam Doshi2, Carl Asche1, Joe Biskuspiak1, Diana Brixner1, Anna Chalmers3, David Stenehje DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALGORITHM TO IDENTIFY PATIENTS (PT) WITH DESMOID TUMORS (DT) IN A UNITED STATES (US) CLAIMS DATASET.
I feel Dr Chalmers took the time I needed to feel good about my treatment, and right now I needed that so much
She is a very important person in my treatment, [TRANSLATED]
She is great and very patient and understanding. [NAME REMOVED]
She is my guide in my treatment, and I feel very grateful for everything. [TRANSLATED]
Dr. Chalmers, MD, was very easy to talk to, making it easy to discuss my concerns. Her clear and insightful explanation of my situation helped me feel informed and confident about the next steps.
Thank you
I feel safe with her; I trust her knowledge. [TRANSLATED]
Dr Chalmers is an outstanding doctor. She is intelligent, caring and thoughtful. She takes the time to help me sort through difficult information and decisions. She has my trust.
Thanks to your expertise, my treatment is stable at the moment and plays a very important role in my recovery. Thank you so much for all your attention. [TRANSLATED]
Dr Chalmers is an outstanding doctor. I am grateful for her and her medical team. Cutaneous Angiosarcoma is very aggressive, rare and confusing. She guides me through one step at a time.
Very humane and very professional, it's admirable how she chose to be a doctor to help her patients with these somewhat complicated treatments. [TRANSLATED]
Cordial
She is the best doctor [TRANSLATED]
Absolutely amazing. She walks you through everything patiently and explains things well. She answers questions and takes time to talk to you.
Very caring and knowledgeable.
From the onset of meeting Dr. Chalmers, she was very personable, kind, genuinely concerned & very attentive to my illness. Aside from her being a great specialist, she's more than a Dr treating you. She's very personable & truly cares, taking as much time needed to explain & address your concerns. I wish I lived closer, she's the kind of Dr one prays for when having cancer. I'm thankful to not only her, but our Holy Creator got putting my care in her hands.
She's the best, everyone says the same thing. [TRANSLATED]
Dr Chalmers is always caring and compassionate. She listens and understands my concerns.
I really like her. She is knowledgeable and cared about me and my health! She took the time to talk to me, my husband and daughter and we felt comfortable and she didn't appear rushed even though we know she is a very busy doctor. I completely trust her to help us make good decisions for my health.
Excellent Doctor [TRANSLATED]
Dr Chalmers is caring, patient and kind. She takes time to answer all of our questions.
Good communicator and listener.
Dr Chalmers is outstanding, I trust her. She cares. She is very intelligent and perceptive in knowing options for my care.
Dr Chalmers has saved my life. She is intelligent, caring, and listens to my thoughts and concerns. I trust her with my cancer care. treatment.
Dr Chalmers gave me a great deal of confidence in her experience and knowledge. She was through and explained things in a way I understood.
I am extremely fortunate to have her as my oncologist. She is obviously brilliant and exceptionally well educated. I trust her. She is also compassionate and kind.
Ahhhh my excellent Doctor, very humane and explained my treatment very well. [TRANSLATED]
Dr Chalmers is always kind and caring and provides excellent care. She listens to my questions and concerns. She and her team are always supportive and quick to respond to my questions and needs.
Personable, professional, cautiously optimistic.
She is interested in me and has a very pleasant happy way about her that makes being there a good experience.
Very capable and a good listener
Never stops looking for ways to improve your care
Dr Chalmers is a calming person. I feel as if I have all the time in the world with her.
Very positive and caring. I could tell she was very knowledgeable. Made me feel comfortable Told me of the treatment to follow
She was very kind, and showed me that she was willing to help me anyway she could
With 8 years of experience with Dr. Chalmers I highly recommend her. My medical attention was always great. My cancer is a great concern but with the confident medical treatment I am doing well.
Dr. Chalmers has been with me for over 8 years of fighting these rare tumors. She is always caring and knowledgable.
Always kind and caring - excellent care provider.
SHE A SUPER PERSON AND SUPER DOCTOR
I have been coming to Huntsman for 10 years for treatments, have seen many very good Dr.'s. But without a doubt, Dr. Chalmers is one of the BEST! She treats me not only as her patient first, but also cares about me a person!
If you need a cancer doctor, Doctor Chalmers is peerless!
Es una experiencia muy buena ya que ella es una Doctora muy profesional en su trabajo siempre preocupada y viendo lo mejor para mi como pasiente.muchas gracias.
Hannah is intelligently disabled and I liked how Dr. Chalmers included both [NAME REMOVED] and I l, her mother, when speaking about her condition and treatment.
I didn't get to talk to Dr. Chalmers until after she got out of her meeting but she confirmed everything that Melissa Shepherd and I had talked about earlier.
Within moments of meeting Dr. Chalmers and her very capable team, I was sure that my unknown cancer future ahead would be an improved and more hopeful one because of their professional and dedicated care.
Dr. Chalmers always takes the necessary time to answer my questions.
Superb, knowledgeable Oncologist with empathetic, kind, attentive, responsive manner. She keeps me alive, and, for the most part, having a good quality of life.
I love Dr. Chalmers. She really does a great job in trying to make sure I am well informed about concerns and treatment options.
She is absolutely amazing in her care and making sure you understand and like you are family
Very caring and professional!!!
Anna Chalmers has been guiding me through my struggles with leomyosarcoma for 16 years and has kept me up to date on what the CT and MRI scans have shown about my insides. She is very pleasant and knowledgeable and is a joy to work with.
For the past two years Dr Chalmers has given me compassionate care which has encouraged me.
Dr. Chalmers is superb. She has kept me alive with a good quality of life, after a terminal lung cancer diagnosis. She is brilliant, empathetic, thorough, listens carefully, and is an overall excellent physician.
Dr. Charmers is an incredible oncologist. I appreciated her personal attention, her knowledge, and her ability to lay out a plan moving forward as my cancer is now in remission. Highly recommended!
Dr. Chalmers is an amazing doctor and cares incredibly deeply about her patients! You definitely feel that love!
She is very nice to her patient, takes time to explain the case for patient and let patient to know next coming treatment plans. She listens carefully for patients feeling and thinking . She is a doctor whom let her patient feeling trust. and safe.
Exceptional!!!
Very friendly ask questions that I could understand and she explained all facets of what could happen and what should happen in my treatment
She is the greatest!
Dr. Chalmers is always very pleasant and easy to talk to. She explains things in a clear and understandable manner. If she doesn't know an answer to one of my questions, she says so and says that she will confer with the rest of her colleagues and get back to me. And she does!
She explained things very well and listened to my concerns.
Dr Chalmers always make me feel we are in a good position
She was caring and gave suggestions for helps which she will send to recommending doctor.
Dr Chalmers is an exceptional oncologist. She listened to all my concerns and responded based on her experience and expertise. She asked for my input and feelings about new interventions. I highly recommend her.
Dr Chalmers did everything to make me informed and at ease
So fortunate to have Dr. Chalmers as my oncologist.
They're always open and transparent with me and I really like that about my Care Team and providers.
Great explanation of what my condition was
Dr Chalmers takes the time to truly listen to my concerns and answers my questions. We make decisions together. She reassured me, she is honest, she guides me to hood decisions. I am very grateful for her.
I am extremely fortunate to be a patient of Dr. Chalmers, Lyndi, and Melissa's.
I met with a Fellow Dr Thomas (?) before Dr Chalmer's came in. Both Drs were so compassionate and kind and it truly was such a great experience. I would recommend them to anyone. I felt my concerns were heard and they offered such great explanation of what we are dealing with.
I feel confident in Dr. Anna Chalmers, and I like her personally. I think that is important.
Dr Chalmers spent lots of time with us and answered all our questions and concerns.
Every member of the Sarcoma Team I have interacted with has been patient, caring, helpful and forthright in answering any questions I have asked. I get the feeling everyone of them cares about me as a person and will do everything necessary to ensure I get the best health care they can provide. As a Christian, I believe God guided me to seek care from Huntsman and has had his hand on my care givers through all I have been through. God and Huntsman are the reasons I am still alive today.
Dr Chalmers spent a lot of time making sure I understood everything and asked any questions I had.
Dr. Chalmers gave me her collegues' recommendations as well as her own. Based on that I will undergo a regimen of radiation treatments at Logan Cancer Center starting [DATE REMOVED] to be followed by chemo therapy.
We are dealing with life and death at the Huntsman Cancer Center and I really believe that the doctors there earnestly care for their patients and trying to give them the best treatment they possibly can
5 stars
Dr Chalmers was excellent! She asked us questions about what we thought of the processes thus far, & was very focused setting up a diagnosis plan and a treatment plan. We were very impressed by Dr Chalmers.
We were very grateful for the time the doctor took to explain, to answer our questions and concerns.It's great when the doctor is not in a hurry.
Dr. Chanders is an Angel. Thanks for your help!
Good
excellent experience
Dr. Chalmers was very compassionate throughout my office visit even though we had bad news to discuss. She stayed late and spent extra time with me discussing possible options for treatment. I felt better after seeing her and have a good understanding of what is next. She is a wonderful doctor!
Dr Chalmers is always concerned about my well-being. She is very caring and I appreciate how hard she works to try to help me with my cancer treatment.
Dr. Chalmers is a wonderful doctor! I would highly recommend her to other sarcoma patients.
Dr. Chalmers and her PA always listen to my concerns and explain things in a manner I can understand. Both are fabulous!
Doctor Chalmers and Melissa Shepherd are always honest and take the time to explain what's going on with me to my husband and I. It just makes the process of what I'm going through a little less scary.
always feel like they honestly care about me
All care providers very willing to listen and discuss options. Doctor willing to take as much time as needed. Much appreciated.
Great people
Great and caring doctor.
very caring and thorough doctor
they just genuinely feel concerned about their patients Rich You Don't See a lot at other hospitals
extremely thorough, very caring
I really like how Dr. Chalmers walks me through my tests and explains everything to me. She is very through and takes the time to listen to and answer my questions.
I usually have several questions for Dr. Chalmers at my appointments. I appreciate how she always allows enough time for me to ask them and get the answers I need to feel comfortable about my treatment plan. She is a wonderful doctor!
Dr. Chalmers spent extra time with me explaining several different things. I appreciate that she takes the time needed with each patient and I don't feel rushed even when I have extra questions about my test results or treatment options. She is a wonderful doctor!
good
always very good and professional
haven't came up with a treatment plan yet.
Dr. Chalmers is the best! She's very caring and concerned about me.
Dr Chalmers is Awesome!
telephone visit
Dr. Chalmers is great at explaining my test results and the options I have for treatment. She always answers my questions in a way I can understand and never makes me feel bad for asking many questions. I feel she has my best interests at heart and is doing all she can to help me to live longer. She is a wonderful doctor!
Dr Chalmers is awesome!
All good for what she did.
Anna Chalmers and Melissa Shepard are wonderful to be around. I know that they truly care about my health and they are professional caregivers. I feel very grateful to them. if something isnt working they try to help me in another way. I know Im not just some patient forgotten on a list. They are always up to date on whats going on with me.
good
always a good listener and problem solver
good
Both Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Hyngstrom are thorough when it comes to how things look at the present and the varying possibilities of future treatments, depending upon how the situation looks. Theyre both great!
Ann is wonderful and I am grateful for her.
Dr. Chalmers is wonderful and a friend.
great
in the past I never really felt like I had much say about what I wanted to be done, but then again I didnt go to med school so meh