JHU Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Training Program
Name / Residency Institution / First Position After Fellowship / Present Location / Present Position1997
Jeffrey Dome, MD / Yale University SOM, New Haven, CT / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / Children's National Medical Center / Chief, Division of Oncology
Wing-Hang Leung, MD, PhD / SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / Chair, BMT/Cellular Therapy
1998
Alison Friedmann, MD / Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med. Center / Massachusetts General Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston / Assistant Professor
Sheri Spunt, MD / University of California / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / Associate Professor
1999
Daniel Bowers, MD / Children’s Medical Center of Dallas / UT Southwestern Medical School / UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas / Associate Professor
Terry Fry, MD / Georgetown University Hospital / Children’s National Medical Center / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Head, Hematologic Malignancies Section
Elizabeth Lowe, MD / Children’s Memorial Hosp. Chicago / Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children / Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals / Director, Clinical Research
2000
Lorna Fitzpatrick, MD / St. Louis Children’s Hospital / Roswell Park Cancer Institute/WCHOB / Roswell Park Cancer Institute / Associate Professor
David Loeb, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Associate Professor
2001
Steve Yoon-Ho Cho, MD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / JHU Nuclear Medicine Fellowship / University of Wisconsin / Associate Professor
Meghan Higman, MD, PhD / Children’s Hosp. of Pittsburgh / Johns Hopkins University / Roswell Park Cancer Institute / Assistant Professor
Robert Iannone, MD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA / Merck Research Laboratories / Senior Director
Colleen McDonough, MD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Johns Hopkins University / Medical College of Georgia / Assistant Professor
2002
Yu-Waye Chu, MD / UCLA Children’s Hospital / University of Arizona / Genentech, Inc / Medical Director
John Glod, MD, PhD / Children’s Hospital Medical Center / Robert Wood Johnson, NJ / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Clinical Director
David Jacobsohn, MD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL / Children’s National Medical Center / Division Chief, BMT
2003
Kristin Baird, MD / UCLA Children’s Hospital / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI/NIH / FDA, Washington / Medical Officer
Alex Huang, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital / Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital / Assistant Professor
Jeffrey R. Keefer, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Johns Hopkins University / Quintiles / Medical Director
Jason Sager, MD / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Genentech / Sanofi –Aventis, Cambridge, MA / Sr. Medical Director
Sharon Savage, MD / Children’s National Medical Center / Clinical Genetics Branch, NCI, NIH / Clinical Genetics Branch, NCI, NIH / Tenured Investigator, NCI
Amir Shahlaee, MD / Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham / University of Florida, Gainesville, FL / FDA / Medical Officer
Duncan Stearns, MD / Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital / St. Christopher’s Children’s Hospital / Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital / Director of Pediatric Neuro-Onc
Current Status of Former Trainees
Name / Residency Institution / First Position After Fellowship / Present Location / Present Position2004
Patrick Brown, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Associate Professor
Robert Liem, MD / Children’s Memorial Hospital - Chicago / Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago / Northwestern University / Associate Professor
Tammuella Singleton, MD / University of Miami SOM / Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, LA / Tulane University / Section Chief
Lesley Simpson, MD / Wake Forest Univ Wiston-Salem, NC / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / NHS Edinburgh, Scotland / Consultant Physician
John Strouse, MD, PhD / University of Rochester / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
Elias Zambidis, MD, PhD / Washington Univ SOM, St. Lous, MO / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
2005
Sean Davis, MD, PhD / University of Washington / Cancer Genetics, NHGRI, NIH / Cancer Genetics Branch, NHGRI, NIH / Staff Scientist
Kartik Krishnan, MD / Mattel Children’s Hospital, UCLA / University of Arizona / Genentech / Medical Director
A. Kyle Mack, MD / University of Miami, Jackson Children’s / Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago / Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago / Assistant Professor
Ido Paz-Priel, MD / Maimonides Medical Center; Brooklyn / Johns Hopkins University / Genentech / Associate Medical Director
José Villagra, MD / University of Miami, Miami, FL / Children’s National Medical Center / Private Practice – Wheaton, MD / Private Practice
2006
Jason Farrar, MD / Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin / Johns Hopkins University / University of Arkansas / Assistant Professor
Michelle Hudspeth, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Medical University of South Carolina / Medical University of South Carolina / Assistant Professor
Su Young Kim, MD, PhD / University of Texas at Houston / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Bristol Meyer Squibb / Medical Director
Amy McKee, MD / Floating Hospital for Children / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / FDA / Medical Officer
Kristen Snyder, MD / University of Michigan / Vanderbilt School of Medicine / Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health / Assistant Professor
Heather Symons, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
Kirsten Williams, MD / Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital / Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s National Medical Center / Assistant Professor
2007
Christopher Gamper, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
Helge Hartung, MD / Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA / Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Attending Physician
D. Will Parsons, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University SOM / Texas Children's/Baylor / Associate Professor
William Savage, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Harvard Medical School / Assistant Professor
Christine Bolen, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Blume Pediatric Hem/Onc Clinic, NC / St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at NH Hemby Children’s Hospital / Attending Physician
2008
Christian Capitini, MD / University of Minnesota / University of Wisconsin / University of Wisconsin / Assistant Professor
Emi Caywood, MD / Georgetown University Hospital / Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children / Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children / Assistant Professor
AeRang Kim, MD, PhD / NYU School of Medicine / Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s National Medical Center / Assistant Professor
Meredith Chuk, MD / University of Pittsburgh / Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh / FDA
Suzie Noronha, MD / UNC-Chapel Hill / University of Maryland / University of Rochester Medical Center / Assistant Professor
Stephanie Omokaro, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / FDA / Medical Officer
Jason Yustein, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University / Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children's/Baylor / Assistant Professor
Name / Residency Institution / First Position After Fellowship / Present Location / Present Position
2009
Courtney Fitzhugh, MD / Duke University Medical Center / Sickle Mortality Prevention, NHLBI, NIH / Sickle Mortality Prevention, NHLBI, NIH / Assistant Clinical Investigator
Patrick Grohar, MD, PhD / Johns Hopkins University / Vanderbilt University / Van Andel Institute / Lead Investigator
Craig Lotterman, MD / NYU Hospitals / Ochsner Children’s Hospital, Tulane / Ochsner/University of Queensland School of Medicine. / Associate Professor
Rebecca McFall, MD / Children’s Memorial Hosp. Chicago / Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital / Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital / Physician
Eric Schafer, MD / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Johns Hopkins University / Texas Children's/Baylor / Assistant Professor
Nilay Shah, MD / MCWAH-Children’s Hospital of WI / Nationwide Children’s Hospital. / Nationwide Children’s Hospital / Assistant Professor
2010
J. Thomas Badgett, MD, PhD / Kosair Children’s Hospital - Louisville / University of Kentucky / University of Kentucky / Assistant Professor
Lea Cunningham, MD / Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / Assistant Professor
Leigh Marcus, MD / Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital / Children’s National Medical Center / FDA / Medical Officer
Francis Mussai, MD / Royal College of Paediatrics, England / Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK / Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK / Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist
Devang Pastakia, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Vanderbilt University School of Medicine / Assistant Clinical Professor
Eric Raabe, MD, PhD / Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
Rachel Rau, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Texas Children's/Baylor / Assistant Professor
Lisa Williams, MD / Schneider Children’s Hospital, NY / Johns Hopkins University / FDA / Medical Officer
2011
Fernanda Arnaldez, MD / Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh / Pediatric Oncology Branch , NCI, NIH / Pediatric Oncology Branch , NCI, NIH / Associate Research Physician
Nataliya P. Buxbaum, MD / Columbia University, New York / Transplantation and Immunology, NIH / Transplantation Immunology Branch, NIH / Associate Clinical Investigator
Deepika Darbari, MD / Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s National Medical Center / Assistant Professor
Hema Dave, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s National Medical Center / Assistant Professor
Daniel Lee, MD / University of Texas Medical School / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / University of Virginia / Director of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant
Deena Levine, MD / Robert Wood Johnson Medical School / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / St. Jude Children’s Cancer Center / Assistant Professor
E. Allan Sison, MD / Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital / Johns Hopkins University / Texas Children's /Baylor College of Med. / Assistant Professor
2012
Colleen Annesley, MD / University of Miami / Johns Hopkins University / Seattle Children’s Hospital / Assistant Professor
Chimen Kesserwan, MD / American University, Beirut / University of Oklahoma / St Jude Children's Research Hospital / Assistant Member
Calvin Lee, MD / Johns Hopkins University / All Children’s Hospital / All Children’s Hospital / Assistant Professor
Ashley Munchel, MD / University of Miami / Children's National Medical Center / University of Maryland / Assistant Professor
Nirali Shah, MD / Mass General /Children’s Hosp. Boston / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Attending Physician
Jessica Shand, MD / University of Rochester Medical Center / Research Fellow, POB, NCI, NIH / University of Rochester / Assistant Professor
Matteo Trucco, MD / Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital / Assistant Professor / University of Miami / Assistant Professor
2013
Jeffrey Huo, MD, PhD / Washington University, St. Louis / Johns Hopkins University / UNC-Charlotte / Assistant Professor
Brian Ladle, MD, PhD / Cincinnati Children’s Hosp. Medical Ctr. / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Instructor
Nicolas Llosa, MD / Floating Hospital for Children At TUFTS / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
Allison Martin, MD / University of Pittsburgh / Johns Hopkins University / Johns Hopkins University / Instructor
Toshihiro Onishi, MD / Tokushima University Hospital, Japan / Johns Hopkins Pediatric Residency / Johns Hopkins University / Harriet Lane Pediatric Residency
John (Jack) Shern, MD / University of Chicago / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NIH / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NIH / Associate Clinical Investigator
Heather Wasserstrom, MD / Robert Wood Johnson University of NJ / Medical Director / ImClone Systems, New York / Medical Director
Name / Residency Institution / First Position After Fellowship / Present Location / Present Position
2014
Sama Ahsan, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Fellow, JHU / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Attending Physician
Catherine Albert, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Instructor / Seattle Children’s Hospital / Assistant Professor
Rachel Ershler, MD / University of Wisconsin / Medical Officer / FDA / Medical Officer
Masanori Hayashi, MD / Duke University Hospital, Durham / Research Fellow, JHU / Johns Hopkins University / Instructor
Christine Heske, MD / Brown University/Hasbro Children’s Hosp. / Research Fellow, POB, NCI, NIH / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Assistant Clinical Investigator
2015
Stacy Cooper, MD / Johns Hopkins University / Instructor / Johns Hopkins University / Assistant Professor
Wendy Chang, MD / NYP Columbia Children’s Hospital / Research Fellow / Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh / Assistant Professor
Ruchika Goel, MD / Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh / Transfusion Medicine Fellow / New York Blood Center / Assistant Professor
Elad Jacoby, MD / Tel HaShomer, Tel Aviv, Israel / Director, Pediatric Immunotherapy / Tel HaShomer, Israel / Physician-Researcher
Orly Klein, MD / Mt Sinai School of Medicine / Instructor / Johns Hopkins University / Instructor
Lisa McReynolds, MD PhD / NYP Columbia Children’s Hospital / Clinical Fellow, NIAID, NCI, NIH / Clinical Genetics Branch, NCI, NIH / Attending Physician
Diana Steppan, MD / University of Maryland / Research Fellow, JHU / Johns Hopkins University / Master of Public Health candidate
Marielle Yohe, MD PhD / University of Connecticut / Clinical Fellow, POB, NCI, NIH / Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH / Attending Physician
2016
Gordon Cohen, MD / The Johns Hopkins Hospital / Research Fellow, JHU / Johns Hopkins University
Kyle Jackson, MD / Northwestern University / Research Fellow, JHU / Johns Hopkins University
Robbie Majzner, MD / NYP Morgan Stanley Children's Hosp. / Instructor / Stanford Children’s Hospital
Ananandi Nellan, MD / University of Virginia / Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Fellow / Denver Children’s Hospital
Cara Rabik, MD PhD / University of Michigan / Research Fellow, JHU / Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey Rubens, MD / Northwestern University / Research Fellow, JHU / Johns Hopkins University