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
Languages (in addition to English): Spanish, Catalan
Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D.
Deputy Chair, and Chief, Section of Leukemia Biology Research
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, ALL, BPDCN
Languages (in addition to English): Russian
Deputy Chair, Chief, Section of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), and Leukemia Center Medical Director
Clinical Areas of Expertise: CLL/SLL
Chief, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, and Center Medical Director, Bone Marrow Aspiration Clinic
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML and MDS
Languages (in addition to English): German
Chief, Section of Developmental Therapeutics
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, T-cell LGL, Aplastic Anemia, ALL, CML, CLL/SLL, Hairy Cell
Languages (in addition to English): Hindi, Assamese, Bengali
Director, Leukemia Research Alliance Program
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML/MDS, ALL
Languages (in addition to English): Hindi, Marathi
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
Leukemia Center Associate Medical Director, Leukemia Department Quality and Safety Officer
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
Languages (in addition to English): French and Arabic
Director, Cellular Therapy Program
Clinical Areas of Expertise: CLL and ALL
Languages (in addition to English): Hindi
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
Languages (in addition to English): Croatian
Clinical Faculty
Associate Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML, MDS, ALL, CML, CLL/SLL
Languages (in addition to English): Spanish
Associate Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: MPN and CLL
Languages (in addition to English): Bengali and Hindi
Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML, ALL, and CML
Laboratory Area of Expertise: Proteomics
Languages (in addition to English): Spanish (limited)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Philip A. Thompson, M.B., B.S. (Hons)
Assistant Professor
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
Distinguished Clinical Professor, Leukemia
Instructor
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Michael J. Keating, M.B., B.S.
Professor
Instructor
Associate Professor
Rasoul Pourebrahimabadi, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Advanced Practice Providers
Inpatient Team |
Outpatient Team
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| Brooke Abby (Darling), PA Jackie Broadway, APN Jenny Dahl, PA Hillary Daver, PA Ethel Estrada, APN Alexis Geppner, PA Jamie Gibbons, PA Edythe Greenberg, APN Shikha Gupta, APN Rodney Haltom, PA Madeleine Henriquez (Nguyen-Cao), PA Julie Huynh-Lu, PA Sue Kaled, APN Christian Laubscher, PA Alice Lynn, APN Aji Mathew, APN Sharon Mattox, APN Kelsey Moakler (Voit), PA Amandine Ndje, APN Elizabeth Pavel, PA Allyson Price, PA Alexandra Probst/Waldo, PA Samantha Salvatora, PA Kavitha Shenoy (Tamerisa), PA Victoria Sukholutsky (Saied), PA Annie Toms, APN Jill Vershel (Miller), PA Mary Alma Welch, PA Megan Wiese, PA Kelly Yager, APN |
Tamara Arboleda, APN Hai Dang, APN Delores Dunham, APN-CNS Otitolola Fletcher, APN Kelley Fliehler, PA John P Folh, APN Shemeka Fransaw, APN Jan Garza-Dennis, APN Rachel Gershenson, APN Jill Gould, PA Payton Heilman, APN JiJi James, APN Marie James, APN Misty James, APN Sikiratu "Lola" Kazeem, APN Treasa Kurian, APN Reena Matthews, APN Tanea Montgomery, APN TaLula Nicholson, APN Shanti Philip, APN Angela Quach, APN Amanda Roslyn, APN Rizza Santa Ana, APN Shailee Sheth, PA Lori Smith (Faldyn), PA Mercy Stanley, APN Theresa Sullivan, APN-CNS Cecilia Thompson, APN Yuhua Xiao, APN Wei Zhu, APN |
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