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)
Clinical Faculty
Associate Professor
Clinical Areas of Expertise: AML, MDS, ALL, CML, CLL/SLL
Alex Bataller Torralba, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Alexandre Bazinet, MDCM
Assistant Professor
Ian Michael Bouligny, M.D.
Assistant Professor
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
Eitan Kugler, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Patrick K Reville, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Mahesh Swaminathan, M.B., B.S.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Takahashi Laboratory
Assistant Professor
Research Faculty
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Maria Teresa Sabrina Bertilaccio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Kapil N. Bhalla, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Professor
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Michael J. Keating, M.B., B.S.
Professor
Sankaranarayanan Kannan, D.Phil
Assistant Professor
Pappanaicken R. Kumar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Christopher Mill, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Rasoul Pourebrahim, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor
Assistant Professor
Advanced Practice Providers
Mary Alma Welch, PA, Associate Director, Advanced Practice Programs
Outpatient Team
Manager: Jill Miller, PA
Supervisors: Alexandra Probst, PA, Julie Huynh-Lu, PA
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
Alexis Geppner, PA
Katherine Graap, APRN
Lyn Greenberg, APN
Rodney Haltom, PA
Julie Hubbard, APRN
Elizabeth Hubert, APRN
Blossom Jose, APRN
Sue Kaled, APRN
Christian Laubscher, 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
Annie Toms, APRN
Inpatient Team
Manager: Otitolola Fletcher, APRN
Supervisors: Kelley Fliehler, PA, Rizza Santa Ana Macas, APRN
Sarah Aparece, APRN
Tamara Arboleda, APRN
Hai Dang, APRN
Lavinne Davenport, APRN
Kathryn Esquivel, APRN
John Folh, APRN
Jan Garza-Dennis, APRN
Rachel Gershenson, APRN
Jill Gould, PA
Bryan Hsu, APRN
Jiji James, APRN
Marie 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
Talula Nicholson, APRN
Sikiratu "Lola" Olawunmi, APRN
Vanessa Perez, APRN
Shanti Philip, APRN
Angela Quach, APRN
Jennifer Reed, APRN
Devan Scott, APRN
Mercy Stanley, APRN
Theresa Sullivan, APRN
Raven Thacker, 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 – 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