Alumni

Pie chart showing where recent fellowship program alumni are employed.

Physician researchers have been receiving fellowships to study hematology and oncology at the NIH for more than 80 years, and it was one of the first training programs to be established. Our program’s alumni include accomplished and respected physicians conducting cutting-edge research at NIH and other premier research hospitals and institutions throughout the world.

heme-onc_2024 grad group shot — (L-R): Drs. Jamie Hur, Norihiro Yamaguchi, Nirmal Choradia, Brett Schroeder, Maria Farooq, Saad Atiq, Xing Fan, and Laercio Lopes DaSilva (all graduates of the Hematology Oncology Fellowship) and Alex Rankin (a graduate of the NIH Immunotherapy Fellowship).

Please note that a number of our recently graduated fellows are staying for their guaranteed third year of research and/or as advanced fellows. Others have secured academic faculty positions that will be made public when we have institutional approval to do so.
Program Years	name of alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2021-2024	Nirmal Choradia, M.D., MPH	Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City

Grad group photo showing all 2023 fellows — (L-R): Drs. Amrit Bhaskarla, Emily Bryer, Rialnat Lawal, Rebecca Bystrom, Krithika Shanmugasundaram, Harold Elias, Kelley Coffman, Clay Reed, Stacey Doran, Jibran Durrani, Aamir Hussain, Sarah Atkins, Princess Mark-Adjeli and Melissa Abel.

program years	name of alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2021-2023	Melissa Abel, M.D	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Genitourinary Malignancies Branch Focus: Prostate and Small Cell Oncology
2020-2023	Sarah Atkins, M.D.	HealthPartners, Saint Paul, Minnesota Focus: Breast Oncology
2022-2023	Amrit Bhaskarla, D.O.	Hematologist and Oncologist, Northwestern Medical Group, Geneva, IL Focus: Community-based Heme/Onc Practice
2020-2023	Emily Bryer Tomasulo, D.O.	Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Focus: Lymphoma
2020-2023	Rebecca Bystrom, M.D.	Advanced Fellowship in Leukemia, Dana Farber Cancer Institute Focus: Acute Leukemia, Medical Management
2021-2023	Kelley Coffman, M.D.	Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Focus: GI Malignancies
2021-2023	Stacey Doran, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Center for Immuno-Oncology Focus: Adoptive Cell Therapy in Solid Tumors
2021-2023	Harold Elias, M.D.	Advanced Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Focus: HSC Biology, Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
2020-2023	Aamir Hussain, MBBS	Hematologist and Oncologist, GenesisCare Hematology Oncology Associates, Boca Raton, Florida Focus: Community-based Heme/Onc Practice
2020-2023	Princess Mark-Adjeli, M.D.	Clinical Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital Focus: Breast Oncology
2020-2023	Clay Reed, M.D.	Hematologist and Oncologist, Coletta Cancer Center, Mercy Hospital, Oklahoma City Focus: Rural, Community-based Heme/Onc Practice
2020-2023	Krithika Shanmugasundaram, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Lymphoma and Cellular Therapy, University of Virginia Focus: CAR-T and Lymphoma

2022 Graduates — (L-R): Drs. Thomas Odeny, Mohammad Atiq, Yifan Pang, Joseph Wooley, Kevin Breen, Nicholas Simon, Pedro Alcedo Andrade, Kamil Rechache, Parth Desai, Nina Kim, and John Molina.

PROGRAM YEARS	NAME OF ALUMNI	where they went after their fellowship
2020-2022	Pedro Alcedo Andrade, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Focus: Classical Hematology
2020-2022	Mohammad Atiq, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Genitourinary Malignancies Program, Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago Focus: Genitourinary Malignancies
2018-2022	Christopher Cole, M.D., Ph.D.	Medical Director, Palleon Pharmaceuticals
2019-2022	Parth Desai, MBBS	Clinical investigator, Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple University Hospital Focus: Head & Neck and Lung Cancers
2019-2022	Nina Kim, M.D.	Physician at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Division of Hematologic Malignancies I (DHMI) Focus: Hematologic Malignancies
2020-2022	Rialnat Lawal, MD., Ph.D.	Advanced Research Fellow – Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, mentor: Paul Liu Focus: Sickle Cell Disease
2019-2022	Meredith Jo McAdams, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Thoracic and Gastrointestinal Malignancies Branch Focus: Thymic Cancer
2020-2022	John Molina, M.D., M.Ed.	Associate Staff Clinician, Cleveland Clinic Focus: AYA Hematologic Malignancies
2020-2022	Thomas A. Odeny, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Oncology Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Focus: Global Oncology
2019-2022	Yifan Pang, M.D.	Attending Physician, Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders Focus: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
2019-2022	Kamil Rechache, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, Center for Immuno-Oncology, NCI, NIH; Associate Program Director, NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship Focus: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
2020-2022	Nicholas Simon, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, NCI, NIH Focus: Bladder Cancer
2019-2022	Joseph Wooley, M.D.	Associate Staff Clinician, Cleveland Clinic Focus: Sarcoma, Phase 1 studies

2021 Graduates — (L-R): Drs. Yazan Migdady, Guillaume Pegna, Danielle Pastor, Sarah Jenkins, Mohamed Samour, Jillian Simard, Katie Cappell, Jeevan Puthiamadathil, Nebojsa Skorupan and Vincent Chau.

program years	name of alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2018-2021	Kathryn Cappell, M.D., Ph.D.	Hematologist/Oncologist specializing in hematologic malignancies, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Fairfax, Virginia
2018-2021	Vincent Chau, M.D., Ph.D.	Medical Monitor, Loxo Oncology
2019-2021	Meaghan Colling, M.D.	Clinical Research Fellow, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Medical University of Vienna
2019-2021	Sarah Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D.	Hematologist and Oncologist, University of Tennessee Medical Center
2018-2021	Yazan Migdady, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology
2019-2021	Danielle Pastor, D.O., Ph.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology’s Clinical Trials Group
2018-2021	Guillaume Pegna, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology
2019-2021	Jeevan Puthiamadathil, M.D.	Medical Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Office of Oncologic Diseases
2018-2021	Mohamed Samour, M.D.	Associate Physician, Geisinger
2019-2021	Jillian Simard, M.D.	Breast Oncologist, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, DC
2018-2021	Nebojša Skorupan, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2017-2020	Kyunghee Burkitt, D.O., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
2018-2020	Dai Chihara, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma
2017-2020	Joseph Clara, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch
2018-2020	Zishuo Ian Hu, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of GI Medical Oncology
2017-2020	Peter DeMaria, M.D.	Medical Officer, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Office of Oncologic Diseases Division of Hematologic Malignancies
2018-2020	Shruti Gandhy, M.D., Ph.D.	Medical Officer, FDA Oncology Center of Excellence
2017-2020	Sabrina Khan, M.D.	Study Physician and Cancer and Research Scholar, AstraZeneca
2017-2020	Elizabeth Hill, M.D.	Medical Officer, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Division of Hematologic Malignancies II
2017-2020	Andy Itsara, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI
2017-2020	Rahul Lakhotia, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Lymphoid Malignancies Branch
2017-2020	Paul Leger, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Genitourinary Malignancies, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
2017-2020	Maria Pia Morelli, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of GI Medical Oncology
2018-2020	Sujay Shah, M.D.	Medical Director, Janssen
2018-2020	Nobuyuki Takahashi, M.D., Ph.D.	Staff Clinician, Medical Oncology Service, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
2018-2020	Julia Z. Xu, M.D., M.Sc.G.H.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI)

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2016-2019	Munjid Al Harthy, M.D.	Staff Clinician, Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Center (formerly Assistant Research Physician, NCI)
2018-2019	Jennifer Carter, M.B.B.S.	Hematologist and Oncologist, Northwest Alabama Cancer Center, Muscle Shoals, AL
2016-2019	Gang Chen, M.D., Ph.D.	Community Practice, Silver Spring, MD
2016-2019	Julie Collins, M.D., M.P.H.	Global Medical Director, AstraZeneca
2017-2019	Charalampos Floudas, M.D., D.M.Sc., M.S.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, with focus on head and neck cancers
2017-2019	Frank Lin, M.D.	Investigator, Molecular Imaging Program, NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholar
2016-2019	Idrees Mian, M.D.	Hematologist and Oncologist, Kaiser Permanente, Largo, MD
2016-2019	Lekha Mikkilineni, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Surgery Branch, with a focus is on developing and carrying out phase 1 clinical trials for CAR T-cell therapy targeting hematological malignancies
2017-2019	Cecilia Monge Bonilla, M.D., M.P.H.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Thoracic and Gastrointestinal Malignancies Branch
2016-2019	Christopher Pleyer, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI (and Associate Director, NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship)
2016-2019	Changqing Xie, M.D., Ph.D.	Physician Scientist Early Investigator, NCI Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch (formerly Assistant Clinical Investigator with same branch)
2016-2019	Chen Zhao, M.D.	Physician-Scientist Early Investigator, NCI Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch (formerly Investigator Assistant Clinical Investigator for the same branch)

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2015-2018	Daisuke Araki, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI
2015-2018	Tara Berman, M.D.	Medical Oncologist, Inova (formerly Medical Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
2017-2018	Amine Achhal El Kadmiri, M.D.	Community Practice, affiliated with Metro Nashville General Hospital
2016-2018	Azam Ghafoor, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch
2015-2018	Vid Leko, M.D.	Physician-Scientist Early Investigator, NCI (formerly Postdoctoral Fellow, NCI with Stephen Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D.)
2015-2018	Kathryn Lurain, M.D., M.P.H.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch and Associate Program Director, NIH Hematology Oncology Fellowship
2015-2018	Rosa Nadal Rios, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI
2016-2018	Scott Norberg, D.O.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch
2015-2018	Karolyn Oetjen, M.D., Ph.D.	Instructor, Stem Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO
2016-2018	Jason Redman, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Genitourinary Malignancies Branch

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2014-2017	Stefan Cordes, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI
2015-2017	Jaydira Del Rivero, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Pediatric Oncology Branch, developing the Rare Tumor Natural History study and Rare Tumor Clinic
2014-2017	Farhad Fakherjahani, M.D.	Community Practice, Kaiser Permanente and Holy Cross Hospital
2014-2017	Eitan Friedman, M.D.	Community Practice, affiliated wiht United Oncology Medical Associates of Florida LLC and Jackson North Medical Center
2015-2017	Margaret Gatti-Mays, M.D.	Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Division of Medical Oncology
2014-2017	Kazusa Ishii, M.D., M.P.H.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch
2014-2017	Chul Kim, M.D., M.P.H.	Assistant Professor, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
2015-2017	Hoyoung Maeng, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Vaccine Branch
2014-2017	Christopher Melani, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, specializing in lymphoma
2014-2017	Milos Miljković, M.D., M.Sc.	Chief Medical Officer, Cartesian Therapeutics
2015-2017	Ana Nunes, M.D., Ph.D.	Study Physician, AstraZeneca
2013-2017	Georgios Pongas, M.D.	Assistant Professor, University of Miami, specializing in lymphoma and CLL
2015-2017	Nitin Roper, M.D., M.Sc.	Assistant Clinical Investigator, NCI Developmental Therapeutics Branch, research focus on high-grade neuroendocrine tumors, including small cell lung cancers, bladder, prostate, pancreatic and non-small cell cancers that transform to high-grade neuroendocrine cancers
2014-2017	Sanaz Soltani, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, West Virginia University Cancer Institute
2014-2017	Phuong Vo, M.D.	Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington Division of Medical Oncology

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2013-2016	Inhye Ahn, M.D.	Faculty, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (formerly Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI)
2013-2016	Jennifer Brudno, M.D.	Associate Research Physician, NCI, researches the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy to treat cancers of the blood, including Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and multiple myeloma
2013-2016	Haobin Chen, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Clinical Investigator, NCI, researches novel therapies for small cell lung cancer
2012-2016	James Cooper, M.D.	Medical Director, Genentech
2013-2016	Oxana (Rusher) Crysler, M.D.	Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School
2014-2016	Nicole Davarpanah, M.D.	Assistant Medical Director, Product Development Oncology, Genentech , Inc.
2010-2016*	Bogdan Dumitriu, M.D.	Community Practice, Kaiser Permanente, Largo, MD
2014-2016	Jennifer Gao, M.D.	Medical Oncologist, Food and Drug Administration Division of Oncology Products 1 Breast Cancer team
2015-2016	Monalisa Ghosh, M.D.	Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School
2014-2016	Daniel Lee, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, with interest in genitourinary tumors
2012-2016	Sandya Panch, M.D., M.P.H.	Associate Professor, University of Washington Division of Hematology; Director of Transfusion Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (formerly Medical Director, Center for Cellular Engineering, NIH Department of Transfusion Medicine)
2013-2016	Julius Strauss, M.D.	Associate Research Physician, NCI Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology (LTIB) and Co-Director of the LTIB's Clinical Trials Group
2013-2016	Clare Sun, M.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NHLBI

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2012-2015	Syed Abbas Ali, M.B.B.S.	Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine Kimmel Cancer Center
2013-2015	Victoria Chiou, M.D.	Global Medical Director, Cell & Gene Therapy, GSK
2013-2015	Neil Dunavin, M.D.	Clinical Hematologist, University of California at San Francisco
2013-2015	Priscilia Gonçalves, M.D.	Medical Director, Regeron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
2012-2015	Moonjung Jung, M.D.	Clinical Scholar and Instructor in Clinical Investigation, Rockefeller University
2012-2015	David Kotlyar, M.D.	Community Practice, Bethesda and Hagerstown, MD
2013-2015	Metin Kurtoglu, M.D., Ph.D.	Chief Operating Officer, Cartesian Therapeutics
2012-2015	Sham Mailankody, M.B.B.S.	Medical Oncologist specializing in plasma cell disorders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2012-2015	Ciara O'Sullivan, M.B., B.Ch.	Associate Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
2012-2015	Geraldine O'Sullivan Coyne, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Research Physician, NCI Early Clinical Trials Development Program
2012-2015	Vinayak Prasad, M.D., M.P.H.	Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; runs the VK Prasad Laboratory at UCSF
2012-2015	Enkhee Purev, M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Medical Director, Product Development, Genentech
2012-2015	Harpreet "Bonnie" Singh, M.D.	Acting Director, Division of Oncology 2, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, focus on thoracic, head & neck cancers, neuro-oncology, rare cancers, pediatric solid tumors
2012-2015	Ira Surolia, M.D.	Medical Hematologist and Oncologist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2012-2015	Alexandra Zimmer, M.D.	Associate Professor and Breast Cancer Program Director, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Hematology & Oncology Division (formerly Assistant Research Physician, NCI Women's Malignancies Branch)

Program Years	Name of Alumni	where they went after their fellowship
2011-2014	Christina Alewine, M.D., Ph.D.	NCI Lasker Scholar, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer, with a focus on use of immunotoxin therapies in pancreatic cancer
2011-2014	Manisha Bhutani, M.D.	Hematology, Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute
2011-2014	Mauricio Burotto Pichun, M.D.	Medical Director, Bradford Hill Clinical Research; Medical Oncologist, Clínica Universidad de los Andes, Chile
2012-2014	Yuanbin Chen, M.D., Ph.D.	Medical Oncologist, Cancer & Hematology Centers of Western Michigan
2011-2014	Lauren Curtis, M.D.	Assistant Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital
2011-2014	Jan Davidson-Moncada, M.D., Ph.D.	Senior Director, Clinical Research at MacroGenics Inc.
2011-2014	Helen Gharwan, M.D., Ph.D.	Internal Medicine, Northern Light Health
2010-2014	Christian Hinrichs, M.D.	Chief of the Section of Cancer Immunotherapy and Co-Director of the Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Cancer Immunology and Metabolism Center of Excellence, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (formerly NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, Experimental Transplantation and Immunotherapy Branch)
2011-2014	Catherine Lai, M.D., M.P.H.	Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Penn Medicine (formerly Director of Leukemia at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
2011-2014	Kit Lu, M.D.	Medical Hematologist and Oncologist, UPMC Pinnacle, Harrisburg, PA
2011-2014	Sabrina Martyr, M.D.	Medical Hematologist and Oncologist, WellSpan Medical Group, Haover, PA
2011-2014	Avani Shah, M.D.	Medical Director, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Breast Oncology Division
2011-2014	Nishant Tageja, M.D.	Medical Oncologist and Hematologist, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
2011-2014	Susanna Ulahannan, MD, MMed	Assistant Professor of Hematology and Oncology, Oklahoma University Medicine; Associate Director of the Oklahoma TSET Phase I Program

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