Fellows

First Year Fellows

Vasilii Bushunow, MD

Education: MD – State University of New York Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
Residency: UPMC

 

Anumita “Anu” Chakraborty, MD, MS

Education: MD – State University of New York Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
Residency: Temple

 

Sean Doerfler, MD, Combined Palliative Care/Hematology Oncology Fellow

Education: MD – University of Pittsburgh
Residency: Duke

 

 

Nosakhare “Nosa” Ilerhunmwuwa, MBBS, MSc

Education: MD – University of Benin, Nigeria
Residency: Brookdale

 

Yu Jen “Alex” Jan, MD

Education: MD – National Taiwan University College of Medicine
Residency: Mount Auburn

 

Randolph “Randy” Lyde, MD, PhD

Education: MD – Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Residency: UPMC

 

Ryan Sweeney, MD

Education: MD – Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
Residency: Allegheny Health Network (AHN)

 

Victor Zibara, MD, ASH Fellow

Education: MD – LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine Lebanon
Residency: Mt. Sinai West

 

Second Year Fellows

Ali Atoui, MD, ASH Fellow

Education: MD – Universite’ Saint-Joseph Faculte’ de Medecine, Lebanon
Residency: AUB, Beirut Lebanon

 

 

Dominika “Domi” Dulak, MD

Education: MD – Medical University of Gdansk Faculty of Medicine, Gdansk, Poland
Residency: UPMC
Research Interests: Hematologic Malignancies; BMT

 

Hannah Maynard, MD

Education: BS – Duke University, MD – Columbia University
Residency: NYU
Research Interests: GI Malignancy, Clinical Trials, and Cancer Genetics

 

Sarbajeet Nagdas, MD, PhD

Education: BS – University of North Carolina, PhD – University of Virginia, MD – University of Virginia
Residency: UPMC
Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neoplastic and Nonneoplastic Tumoral Cells in Solid Malignancies, Early-phase Translational Studies

 

Matthew Nguyen, MD

Education: BS – Virginia Tech, MD – Virginia Commonwealth University
Residency: UPMC
Research Interests: Drug Discovery and Development, Clinical/Translational Research, Clinical Trials

 

Benjamin “Ben” Schluger, MD

Education: BS – Brandeis University, MD – Columbia University
Residency: NY Presbyterian Hospital
Research Interests: Public/Population Health, Preventative Care, and Lung Cancer

 

Samuel “Sam” Sestito, MD

Education: BA – Washington and Jefferson College, MD – University of Pittsburgh
Residency: Vanderbilt University
Geriatric Internal Medicine Fellowship: Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Geriatric Assessment in Older Adults with Cancer; Clinical Innovation to Bring Geriatric Care Principles into Oncology

 

Third Year Fellows

Subhash Edupuganti, MD, Co-Chief 

Education: BBA – University of Michigan
MD – Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Residency: University of Michigan
 

 

Jingxiao “JJ” Jin, MD

Education: BS – Duke University
MD – Baylor College of Medicine
Residency: UPMC

 

Urvashi Joshi, MD

Education: BS – University of Texas at Austin
MD – Baylor College of Medicine
Residency: University of Michigan 

 

Tara Magge, MD, Co-Chief

Education: BS – Duke University
MS – Georgetown University
MD – Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Residency: University of Cincinnati
 

Kainat Saleem, MD

Education: MD – Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan
Residency: UPMC

 

 

Meghana Singh, MD

Education: MD – Osmania Medical College, India
Residency: University of Connecticut