She is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology[1] and Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics at Emory University.

[8] As a graduate student, she was named a Marshall Scholar and received a full tuition scholarship for two or three years of study at any British university, as well as books, travel and living expenses.

[12] Building on her seminal study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, documenting the "gender gap" in the authorship of articles published in major medical journals,[13] she went on to receive grants from the American Medical Association, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health to develop influential studies of challenges and interventions to promote women's advancement in the field of medicine.

[14] In 2012, she was the lead author of the paper, Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers, published in JAMA, which found that women earned an average of $12,194 less than men a year when all other factors remained the same.

[16] Beyond focusing on gender, Jagsi also conducted numerous large observational studies and leads national clinical trials seeking to optimize the quality of breast cancer care.

[22] Jagsi's work on research on inflammatory breast cancer and innovative radiotherapy approaches to intensify treatment was also supported by the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

She found that "because the onus of balancing work and family continues to be primarily on women, the pandemic has had a more severe effect on the careers of female oncologists.