Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellows and Alumni
![HemOnc Fellows with Dr. Druker](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Fellows%20Picture%20with%20Dr%20Druker.jpg)
Meet our current fellows
Nick Kendsersky, M.D.
![Nick Kendsersky](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Kendsersky-RESIZE.jpg)
Undergraduate: The Pennsylvania State University
Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University
Research interests: GI oncology, clinical trials, mechanisms of resistance
Hobbies and Interests: Cycling, rock climbing, fly fishing, cooking, board games
Awards/Areas of Excellence: 10 published manuscripts/abstracts
Corinne LaVasseur, M.D.
![Corinne LaVasseur](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Lavasseur-RESIZE_0.jpg)
Undergraduate: Northeastern University
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Resident: Oregon Health & Science University
Research interests: Classical hematology, lymphoma
Hobbies and interests: Spending time outdoors (hiking, camping), watching reality TV, and hanging out with my fiancé and dog Judy
Awards/Areas of excellence: Abstract achievement award, >10 published abstracts/manuscripts
Sarah Reddy, M.D.
![Sarah Reddy](/sites/default/files/2024-07/sarah%20Reddy_0.jpeg)
Undergraduate: Stony Brook University
Medical School: Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Texas Southwestern
Research interests: gastroenterological and breast malignancies
Hobbies and Interests: Cooking, sketching, spending time with friends and family
Awards/Areas of excellence: AOA, 11 published manuscripts/abstracts, 7 posters at ASCO
Lyndsey Sandow, M.D.
![Lyndsey Sandow](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Lyndsey%20Sandow.jpeg)
Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin
Medical School: Dell Medical School at University of Texas at Austin
Residency: Oregon Health & Science University
Research interests: GI cancer, pancreatic cancer, immunotherapy
Hobbies and Interests: Cycling, hiking, eating good food and dogs
Awards/Areas of excellence: 12 published abstracts/manuscripts, Dell Medical School Honors Society, Paul Calabresi Medical Student Research Fellowship
Beatrice Torere, M.D.
![Beatrice Torere](/sites/default/files/2024-07/beatrice%20Torere_0.jpeg)
Medical School: Delta State University
Residency: North Mississippi Medical Center
Research interests: Malignant Hematology, BMT/Cellular therapy
Hobbies and Interests: Spending time with family and friends, traveling
Awards/Areas of excellence: Most Scholarly activity during residency, with over 32 scholarly activities, > 20 peer-reviewed publications
Lorena Caulkins, M.D.
![Lorena Caulkins](/sites/default/files/2023-07/Lorena%20Caulkins-RESIZE_0.jpg)
Undergraduate: McGill University, Montreal
Medical School: St. George's University of London
Residency: University of Washington
Research Interests: Cellular therapy/Lymphoma/BMT
Hobbies and interests: Certified yoga instructor, running, road biking, downhill skiing, backcountry skiing
Awards/Areas of excellence: ASH abstract achievement award 2020, previously worked as an oncology hospitalist at the University of Washington
Justin Edward Grenet, M.D.
![Justin Edward Grenet](/sites/default/files/2023-07/Justin%20Edward%20Grenet-RESIZE_0.jpg)
Undergraduate: Duke
Graduate: University of Cambridge, UK – M.Phil
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Residency: New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Ct.
Research interests: Malignant hematology/AML – HMA/Veneticlax resistance
Hobbies and interests: Traveling, creative writing/reading, cooking
Awards/Areas of excellence: ASH achievement award, 2021, ASH Honors Award 2022. 11 published abstracts/manuscripts
Personal statement: “Caring for people with hematologic malignancies convinced me to see the bone marrow as a remarkable and sophisticated organ, and I enjoyed every trip to the hematology lab to peer into the microscope.”
Hannah McMurry, M.D.
![Hannah McMurry](/sites/default/files/2023-07/Hannah%20McMurry-RESIZE.jpg)
Undergraduate: Georgetown
Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Residency: Oregon Health & Science University
Research interests: General hematology, malignant hematology
Hobbies and interests: All things outdoors, spending time with family and friends
Awards/Areas of excellence: ASH Honors 2022, >15 published abstracts/manuscripts
Personal statement: “Lastly, having entered medicine by way of global and public health, I plan to utilize my career to advance equitable hematologic care; both through direct clinical work and through research that contextualizes and addresses social and political dimension of hematology.”
Jean Michael Garcia Sabile, M.D.
![Jean Michael Garcia Sabile](/sites/default/files/2023-07/Jean%20Michael%20Garcia%20Sabile-RESIZE.jpg)
Undergraduate: University of California – Santa Cruz
Medical School: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Graduate: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine – Research and Translational Medicine
Residency: Oregon Health & Science University
Research interests: BMT/Cellular therapy, deep learning/AI
Hobbies and interests: Aikido, boxing, acoustic guitar, rock climbing/bouldering, traveling
Awards/Areas of excellence: AOA, OHSU teaching award, 10 published abstracts/manuscripts
Personal statement: “I firmly believe curiosity is a skill to be honed, practiced, and shared.”
Cameron Chalker, M.D.
![Cameron Chalker, M.D.](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Cameron%20Chalker-resize.jpg)
Undergraduate: Reed
Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington, Washington
Dr. Chalker earned his BA from Reed in Biology and is completing his residency at the University of Washington. While at UW, he has researched toxicity and efficacy of immunotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer with a poor performance status along with their health care utilization at end-of-life. He is also interested in the intersection of equity and medicine and would like to focus his career on underserved populations with solid tumors. He is particularly interested in working with our veteran population.
Brie Chun, M.D.
![Brie Chun, M.D.](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Brie%20Chun-resize.jpg)
Undergraduate: University of Washington
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: Providence Portland Medical Center
Dr. Chun earned her BS in Biology and BA in Dance from the University of Washington and returned to the Northwest for her residency at Providence. Following residency she completed a research fellowship in immuno-oncology at Providence. She is interested in breast cancer and is working with Zahi Mitri on a project characterizing the microbiome in breast cancer patients. She is also working with the lab of Dr. Bahareh Ajami at OHSU. She has published multiple manuscripts and abstracts in recent years, including as a first author in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer entitled, “Changes in T-cell subsets and clonal repertoire during chemoimmunotherapy with pembrolizumab and paclitaxel or capecitabine for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.”
Hong De Sa, M.D.
![Hong De Sa](/sites/default/files/2024-08/De%20Sa%20Hong_RESIZE_0.jpg)
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency: Combined Med-Peds at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals/Rainbow Babies and Children
Research Interests: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hematopoietic stem cell transplant
Hobbies and interests: Ultra/trail running, mountain biking, traveling with family and friends
Awards/Areas of excellence: ASH RTAF 2024, ASH Advocacy Leadership Institute 2023
Ashley Paquin, M.D.
![Ashley Paquin, M.D.](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Ashley%20Paquin-resize.jpg)
Undergraduate: Carleton College
Medical School: Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Residency: OHSU
Dr. Paquin originally hails from Massachusetts but has slowly migrated to the Northwest, starting with her undergrad at Carlton in frosty Minnesota. She received the Glosgow-Rubin Citation for Academic Achievement while at the Mayo Clinic – Arizona for medical school for female students who graduate in the top 10% of their medical class. Prior to medical school she worked at the NIH for two years as a translational researcher which lead to numerous publications and poster presentations. At Mayo, she researched outcomes of patients with Multiple Myeloma and received two ASH abstract awards and a honors scholar award. She will complete her residency at OHSU and has worked with Dr. Rebecca Silbermann performing data collection for a retrospective study of outcomes of patients with primary and secondary plasma cell leukemia. While at OHSU she won several awards including a Housestaff Teaching Award by the Department of Medicine. We are delighted she has decided to stay at OHSU continue her career with us.
Alumni
- Daniel Chandra, M.D.
- Clinical instructor, Center for Hematologic Malignancies, Knight Cancer Institute
- Selina Liu, M.D.
- Physician in the department of Hematology/Oncology, VA
- Kylee Martens, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, OHSU, Portland
- Limin Zhu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Sarcoma Program
- Medical Oncologist at Portland VA Medical Center
- Stephanie Chu, M.D., MPH
- Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, OHSU, Portland, Oregon
- Titas Banerjee, M.D.
- Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, OHSU, Portland, Oregon
- Michael Pfeffer, M.B.B.S
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Classical Hematology
- Rajat Thawani, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago in the Thoracic Oncology Program
- Zizhen (Feifei) Feng, M.D., Ph.D.
- Summit Health, Bend, Oregon
- Myung Sun (Sunny) Kim, M.D.
- Compass Oncology, Portland, Oregon
- Malinda West, M.D.
- Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin, specializing in breast oncology
- Emily Fay, M.D.
- Kaiser Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Woodlawn, Maryland
- Luke Fletcher, M.D.
- Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, Eugene, Oregon
- Allen Li, M.D.
- Memorial Medical Center Modesto, Modesto, California
- Vikram Raghunathan, M.D.
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance at EvergreenHealth, Kirkland, Washington
- Molly Andreason, M.D.
- Sven Olson, M.D.
- Matthew Tipping, M.D.
- Portland Kaiser
- Luai Al Rabadi, M.D.
- Adam Kittai, M.D.
- Emerson Chen, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, School of Medicine
- Ted Braun, M.D., Ph.D.
- Instructor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, School of Medicine
- Joseph Shatzel, M.D.
- Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Oregon Health & Science University
- Robyn Scherber, M.D.
- Mays Cancer Center UT Health San Antonia
- Nate Gay, M.D.
- Kenneth Bensch, M.D., Ph.D.
- Nina Lamble, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance - Austin Lammers, M.D.
- Sharl Azar, M.D.
- Jessica Leonard, M.D.
- Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Oregon Health & Science University
- Dawn Brooks, M.D., Ph.D.
- Berkshire Health Systems, Pittsfield, MA
- Eliana Kozin, M.D.
- Matthew Siegel, M.D.
- Edward Medical Group, Naperville, IL