Leukemia Faculty & Staff
Department Leadership
Hagop M. Kantarjian, M.D.
Department Chair
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, ALL, CML, MPD/MPN, T-cell LGL, BPDCN, Hairy Cell, Aplastic Anemia, HLH, CLL/SLL
Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D.
Deputy Chair, Chief, Section of Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (MDS-CMML), and Director, Leukemia Clinical Fellowship Program
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, Aplastic Anemia, ALL, CML
Deputy Chair, Chief, Section of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), and Leukemia Center Medical Director
Clinical Areas of Expertise: CLL/SLL
Deputy Chair, Leukemia Center Associate Medical Director, Leukemia Department Quality and Safety Officer
Chief, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, and Center Medical Director, Bone Marrow Aspiration Clinic
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML and MDS
Chief, Section of Developmental Therapeutics
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, T-cell LGL, Aplastic Anemia, ALL, CML, CLL/SLL, Hairy Cell
Director, Leukemia Research Alliance Program
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, ALL
Courtney D. DiNardo, M.D., MSCE
Co-Leader, Section of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Co-Leader, Section of Developmental Therapeutics and Leader, Hereditary Hematologic Malignancy Clinic
Co-Leader, Section of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
Chief, Section of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
Clinical Areas of Expertise: ALL, CML, AML, MDS, CLL, MPN
Director, T-cell LPD and Aplastic Anemia Program, Co-Leader, Section of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Co-Leader, Section of Developmental Therapeutics, and Co-Leader, Leukemia Clinical Fellowship Program
Guillermo Montalban Bravo, M.D.
Director, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML) Program
Director, Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN) Program
Chief, Section of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/APL, ALL, HCL, TLGL, Aplastic Anemia
Co-Leader, Section of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
Chief, Section of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN), and Director, Hanns A. Pielenz Clinical Research Center for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Clinical Area of Expertise: MPN
Clinical Faculty
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML, MDS, ALL, CML, CLL/SLL
Professor
Assistant Professor
Fadi Haddad, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML, ALL, and CML
Laboratory Area of Expertise: Proteomics
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Mahesh Swaminathan, M.B., B.S.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Takahashi Laboratory
Assistant Professor
Research Faculty
Associate Professor
Kapil N. Bhalla, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
Instructor
Associate Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor
Instructor
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Michael J. Keating, M.B., B.S.
Professor
Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, ALL, BPDCN
Instructor
Associate Professor
Rasoul Pourebrahimabadi, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Advanced Practice Providers
Outpatient
Brooke Abby, PA
Sara Bresser, PA
Jackie Broadway-Duren, APRN
Selena Carmona, PA
Robin Cook, APRN
Hillary Daver, PA
Whitney Davis, PA
Ethel Estrada, APRN
Samantha Fonte, PA
Alexis Geppner, PA
Lyn Greenberg, APN
Skylar Groth, PA
Rodney Haltom, PA
Elizabeth Hubert, APRN
Julie Huynh-Lu, PA
Sue Kaled, APRN
Christian Laubscher, PA
Alice Lynn, APRN
Aji Mathew, APRN
Sharon Mattox, APRN
Jill Miller, PA
Amandine Ndje, APRN
Elizabeth Pavel, PA
Alexandra Probst, PA
Astrid Quijano, PA
Melanie Ramos, APRN
Samantha Salvatora, PA
Megan Sowers, PA
Victoria Sukholutsky, PA
Wengrid Swearingen, APRN
Annie Toms, APRN
Jennifer Tran, APRN
Inpatient Team
Sarah Aparece, APRN
Tamara Arboleda, APRN
Hai Dang, APRN
Lavinne Davenport, APRN
Kathryn Esquivel, APRN
Imelda Felipe, APRN
Otitolola Fletcher, APRN
Kelley Fliehler, PA
John Folh, APRN
Shemeka Fransaw, APRN
Jan Garza-Dennis, APRN
Rachel Gershenson, APRN
Jill Gould, PA
Jiji James, APRN
Marie James, APRN
Misty James, APRN
Sherine Jobby, APRN
Melvin Jose, APRN
Jeffrey Le, APRN
Treasa Kurian, APRN
Reena Matthews, APRN
Tanea Montgomery, APRN
Talula Nicholson, APRN
Sikiratu "Lola" Olawunmi, APRN
Shanti Philip, APRN
Angela Quach, APRN
Jennifer Reed, APRN
Rizza Santa Ana Macas, APRN
Devan Scott, APRN
Shailee Sheth, APRN
Lori Smith, PA
Mercy Stanley, APRN
Theresa Sullivan, APRN
Cecilia Thompson, APRN
Yuhua Xiao, APRN
Aihua, Zhang, APRN
Wei Zhu, APRN
Disease Abbreviations
ALL – Acute Lymphocytic/Lymphoblastic Leukemia (including Burkitt’s lymphoma/leukemia)
APL – Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
AML – Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
BPDCN – Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm
CLL – Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
CML – Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
CMML – Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
HLH – Hemaphagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (also called Macrophage activation syndrome)
MDS – Myelodysplastic Syndrome
MPN – Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (Myelofibrosis, Polycythemia Vera, Essential Thrombocythemia, Hypereosinophilia, Mastocytosis)
T-cell LGL – T-cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia
T-PLL – T-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia