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
Takahashi Laboratory
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
Instructor
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Michael J. Keating, M.B., B.S.
Professor
Instructor
Associate Professor
Rasoul Pourebrahimabadi, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Advanced Practice Providers
Outpatient
Brooke Abby, PA
Jackie Broadway-Duren, PhD, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Hillary Daver, PA
Samantha Fonte, PA
Ethel Estrada, APRN
Alexis Geppner, PA
Jamie Gibbons, PA
Edythe "Lyn" Greenberg, APRN
Shikha Gupta, APRN
Rodney Haltom, PA
Madeleine Henriquez, PA
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
Allyson Price, PA
Alexandra Probst, PA
Samantha Salvatora, PA
Kavitha Shenoy, PA
Victoria Sukholutsky, PA
Annie Toms, APRN
Mary Alma Welch, PA
Kelly Yager, APRN
Inpatient Team
Tamara Arboleda, APRN
Hai Dang, APRN
Delores Dunham, APRN-CNS
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
Payton Heilman, APRN
Sarah Hutto-Prudencio, APRN
JiJi James, APRN
Marie James, APRN
Misty James, APRN
Sikiratu "Lola" Kazeem, APRN
Treasa Kurian, APRN
Reena Matthews, APRN
Tanea Montgomery, APRN
TaLula Nicholson, APRN
Shanti Philip, APRN
Angela Quach, APRN
Rizza Santa Ana, APRN
Shailee Sheth, PA
Lori Smith, PA
Mercy Stanley, APRN
Theresa Sullivan, APRN-CNS
Cecilia Thompson, APRN
Yuhua Xiao, 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