Leukemia Faculty & Staff
Department Leadership
Ad Interim Chair, Leukemia; Chief, Section of Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (MDS-CMML)
Yagut Retondo
Ad Interim Department Administrator, Leukemia
Deputy Chair, Chief, Section of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), and Leukemia Center Medical Director
Deputy Chair, Leukemia Center Associate Medical Director, Leukemia Department Quality and Safety Officer
Co-Chief, Section of Developmental Therapeutics, Director Wellness
Co-Chief, Section of Developmental Therapeutics
Co-Chief, Section of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs), Clinical Research Center for MPNs
Co-Leader, Section of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs), Clinical Research Center for MPNs, Director, Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN) Program
Director, Leukemia Research Alliance Program, Co-Chief, Section of
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Courtney D. DiNardo, M.D., MSCE
Co-Leader, Section of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Hereditary Hematologic Malignancy Clinic
Chief, Section of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
Chief, Section of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
Director, Cellular Therapy Program, Center Medical Director, Bone Marrow Aspiration Clinic
Director, T-cell LPD and Aplastic Anemia Program, Director, Leukemia Clinical Fellowship Program
Guillermo Montalban Bravo, M.D.
Director, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML) Program
Director, CHIP/CCUS Program
Clinical Faculty
Associate Professor
Alex Bataller Torralba, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor
Fadi Haddad, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Hagop M. Kantarjian, M.D.
Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor
Mahesh Swaminathan, M.B., B.S.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Takahashi Laboratory
Assistant Professor
Research Faculty
Maria Teresa Sabrina Bertilaccio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Kapil N. Bhalla, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Professor
Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Sankaranarayanan Kannan, D.Phil
Assistant Professor
Pappanaicken R. Kumar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Advanced Practice Providers
Outpatient Team
Manager: Jill Miller, PA
Supervisors: Alexandra Probst, PA; Sara Carlough, PA; Annie Toms, APRN
Brooke Abby, PA
Simi Abraham, PA
Jackie Broadway-Duren, APRN
Selena Carmona, PA
Ashlin Charboneau, APRN
Hillary Daver, PA
Whitney Davis, PA
Ethel Estrada, APRN
Taylor Gardiner, PA
Alexis Geppner, PA
Katherine Graap, APRN
Lyn Greenberg, APRN
Rodney Haltom, PA
Raven Houston, PA
Julie Hubbard, APRN
Elizabeth Hubert, APRN
Blossom Jose, APRN
Christian Laubscher, PA
Rebecca Li, PA
Alice Lynn, APRN
Aji Mathew, APRN
Sharon Mattox, APRN
Amandine Ndje, APRN
Elizabeth Pavel, PA
Melanie Ramos, APRN
Biby Reji, APRN
Samantha Salvatora, PA
Joo Schmidt, APRN
Lori Smith, PA
Megan Sowers, PA
Victoria Sukholutsky, PA
Wengrid Swearingen, APRN
Jennifer Thankachan, APRN
Inpatient Team
Supervisors: Kelley Fliehler, PA, Rizza Santa Ana Macas, APRN, Talula Nicholson, APRN; Rachel Gershenson, APRN
Sarah Aparece, APRN
Baltazar, Nicole, APRN
Hai Dang, APRN
Lavinne Davenport, APRN
Egele, Sherray, APRN
Kathryn Esquivel, APRN
John Folh, APRN
Jan Garza-Dennis, APRN
Jill Gould, PA
Bryan Hsu, APRN
Jiji James, APRN
Misty James, APRN
Sherine Jobby, APRN
Melvin Jose, APRN
Deepa Joseph, APRN
Rachel Koller, APRN
Sonia Kondody, APRN
Treasa Kurian, APRN
Jeffrey Le, APRN
Reena Matthews, APRN
Tanea Montgomery, APRN
Sikiratu "Lola" Olawunmi, APRN
Vanessa Perez, APRN
Shanti Philip, APRN
Angela Quach, APRN
Jennifer Reed, APRN
Samuel, Sarah, APRN
Devan Scott, APRN
Mercy Stanley, APRN
Bobyna Stephen, APRN
Theresa Sullivan, APRN
Raven Thacker, APRN
Jramail Tyler, 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 – Hemophagocytic 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