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Hematology & Medical Oncology Fellows
Fellows in our three-year Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine hail from around the world.
First-Year Fellows
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Renata Alex Bajaj, MD
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital
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Nadia Baka, MD
Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
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Leyla Bayat, MD
Medical School: State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
Residency: Case Western Reserve University
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Stephen Bohlman, MD, PhD
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
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Mihir Shukla, MD
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
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Tarik Silk, MD
Medical School: State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
Residency: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Second-Year Fellows
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Rishitha Bollam, MD
Medical School: Boston University
Residency: University of Virginia
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Xiaoyi Chen, MD, PhD
Medical School: Sichuan University
Residency: Jacobi Medical Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Kevin Diasti, MD
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Residency: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
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Christy Morrissey, MD
Medical School: Howard University College of Medicine
Residency: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Ariel Schaap, MD
Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
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Gaurav Varma, MD, MSPH
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Third-Year Fellows
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Alexander Barbaro, MD
Medical School: Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
Research interest and mentors: thoracic oncology with Joshua K. Sabari, MD
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Kenneth Csehak, MD
Medical School: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Residency: University of Maryland
Research interest and mentor: gastrointestinal oncology and public health with Daniel J. Becker, MD
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Wataru Ebina, MD, PhD
Physician–Scientist Track Fellow
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Research interest and mentor: cancer immunology with Daniel Littman, MD
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Minas Economides, MD
Chief Fellow
Medical School: University of Athens School of Health Sciences
Residency: University of Texas School of Health Sciences
Research interest and mentor: genitourinary oncology with David R. Wise, MD
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Dimitrios Papaioannou, MD
Physician–Scientist Track Fellow
Medical School: University of Athens School of Health Sciences
Residency: Ohio State University
Research interest and mentor: cancer immunology and stem cell biology with Dr. Iannis Aifantis, PhD
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Peter Yu, MD
Physician–Scientist Track Fellow
Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Residency: Case Western Reserve University
Research interest and mentor: radiation oncology with Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD