First Year Fellows
Aseel Alsouqi, MD
| Education: | MD – University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine |
| Residency: | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Brittaney-Belle Gordon, MD
| Education: | BA – Princeton University MD – Univeristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Residency: | New York University, Lagnone |
Rosaleen Petroccione, DO
| Education: | BS – Cornell University MD – Lake Erie College of Oesteopathic Medicine |
| Residency: | University of Rochester |
Khvaramze Shaverdashvili, MD, PhD
| Education: | PhD – Case Western Reserve University SOM MD – Tbilisi State Medical University |
| Residency: | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Andrew Swartz, MD
| Education: | BS – Clemson University MD – University of South Carolina School of Medicine |
| Residency: | UPMC |
Masood Pasha Syed, MD
| Education: | MD – M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, India |
| Residency: | Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester |
Second Year Fellows
Manisha Bhattacharya, MD
| Education: | BA – Cornell University MD – Duke University School of Medicine MBA – Duke University, Fuqua School of Business |
| Residency: | Duke University School of Medicine |
| Research Interest(s): | Healthcare delivery systems, global oncology, access and affordability of cancer services, health services research |
Joseph Franz, MD
| Education: | BS – Pennsylvania State University MD – George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Residency: | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Research Interest(s): | High risk multiple myeloma |
Ronan Hsieh, MD
| Education: | MD – National Taiwan University College of Medicine |
| Residency: | Albert Einstein Medical Center |
| Research Interest(s): | Clinical trials and drug development for head and neck cancer, GI cancer, and lung cancers |
Emily Geramita, MD, PhD
| Education: | BA – Wesleyan University MD – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine PhD – University of Pittsburgh |
| Residency: | UPMC |
| Research Interest(s): | Late-stage clinical trials and health services research in hematologic malignancies |
Lauren Mendelson, DO
| Education: | BA – University of Pennsylvania MD – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine – New York |
| Residency: | University of Massachusetts |
| Research Interest(s): | Medical education and curriculum development |
Anastasia Tsagianni, MD
| Education: | MD – University of Athens School of Health Sciences |
| Residency: | UPMC |
| Research Interest(s): | Integration of palliative care to oncology practice |
Third Year Fellows
Steven Borson, MD-Co Chief Fellow
| Education: | BS – Washington University in St Louis MD – Temple University School of Medicine |
| Residency: | Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine |
| Research Interest(s): | Optimal management of Oligometastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
| Research Mentor: | Dan Zandberg, MD |
Kristine Gade, MD
| Education: | BS – University of Virginia MD – University of Virginia, School of Medicine |
| Residency: | University of Virginia, School of Medicine |
| Research Interest(s): | Patient reported outcomes and health care utilization of survivorship clinic patients |
| Research Mentor: | Josie van Londen, MD |
Max Jameson Lee, MD, PhD
| Education: | BS – University of Florida Post-Bac – National Institute of Health Rocky Mountain Labs (Montana) PhD – University of Virginia MD – Medical College of Virginia |
| Residency: | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Research Interest(s): | Combining targeted and immunotherapy for melanoma: clinical trial design and correlates of response in tumor biopsies |
| Research Mentor: | Jason Luke, MD |
Lilit Karapetyan, MD
| Education: | MD – Yerevan State Medical University Master – University of Michigan |
| Residency: | Michigan State University/Sparrow Hospital |
| Research Interest(s): | Biomarkers for Immunotherapy Response; Developmental therapeutics-Immunotherapy; Multiple primary melanoma |
Rachel Rosenblum, MD- Co Chief Fellow
| Education: | BSc – McGill University MD – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
| Residency: | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Research Interest(s): | Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Identify Barriers and Facilitators of Early Outpatient Specialty Palliative Care in Patients with Advanced Cancer |
| Research Mentor: | Bob Arnold, MD |
Saba Shaikh, MD- Co Chief Fellow
| Education: | BS – University of Texas at Dallas MD – Baylor College of Medicine |
| Residency: | McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University |
| Research Interest(s): | A Phase II Trial of Nivolumab plus Axitinib in Patients with anti-PD1 Refractory Advanced Melanoma” |
| Research Mentor: | John Kirkwood, MD and Yana Najjar, MD |
ABIM Fourth Year Fellows
William Maguire, MD, PhD
| Education: | BA – Princeton University MD – Weill Cornell Medical College PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Residency: | UPMC |
| Research Interest(s): | Sulforaphane for therapeutic prevention of melanoma |
| Research Mentor: | John Kirkwood, MD |
Kevin Quann, MD, PhD
| Education: | BS – Drexel University MD – Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University PhD – Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University |
| Residency: | UPMC |
| Research Interest(s): | Exploring the roles of TCF-1 and Tox in the maintenance of graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) |
| Research Mentor: | Warren Shlomchik, MD |
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