The Minority Summer Fellowship is not limited to the potential mentors listed below. These are radiation oncologists who have given their consent to have their names listed for the purpose of potentially mentoring an applicant, but applicants can choose other mentors not listed here. It is the sole responsibility of Minority Summer Fellowship applicants to contact mentors and work with them to develop a project.
Mentors do not need to be underrepresented in medicine.
Connecticut
Henry S. Park, MD, MPH
Department of Therapeutic Radiology
Yale School of Medicine
35 Park St.
New Haven, CT 06517
Phone: 203-200-2100
Email: henry.park@yale.edu
District of Columbia
Curtiland Deville, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Co-Director, Sibley Prostate Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Sibley Memorial Hospital
5255 Loughboro Road, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-537-4788
Email: cdeville@jhmi.edu
Adedamola B. Omogbehin, MD
Washington Hospital Center
110 Irving St., NW
Washington, DC 20010
Phone: 202-877-3925
Email: adedamola.omogbehin@medstar.net
Florida
Robert Amdur, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL
Email: amdurr@shands.ufl.edu
Raymond Mailhot, MD MPH (Clinical Mentor)
University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute
2015 N. Jefferson St.
Jacksonville, FL 32206
Email: rbmailhot@floridaproton.org
Laura Vallow, MD
Associate Professor of Radiation Onoclogy
Program Director, Radiation Oncology Residency
Mayo Clinic
4500 San Pablo Rd.
Jacksonville, FL 32224
Phone: 904-953-1000
Email: vallow.laura@mayo.edu
Illinois
Eric D. Donnelly, MD
Associate Professor
Director of Brachytherapy
Department of Radiation Oncology
Northwestern Medical Group
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
250 E. Superior St., LC-2101
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-926-4247
Fax: 312-472-4439
Email: edonnel2@nm.org
Anne Ritke McCall, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
University of Chicago Medicine
Phone: 815-300-5850
Email: amccall@radonc.uchicago.edu
Mackenzie C. McGee, MD
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
Dept. of Radiation Oncology
530 N.E. Glen Oak Ave.
Peoria, IL 61637
Phone: 309-655-6810
Email: mackenzie.mcgee@gmail.com
Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD
D.K. Ludwig Professor and Chairman
University of Chicago
5758 S. Maryland Ave., MC 9006
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-0817
Email: rrw@radonc.uchicago.edu
Iowa
Carryn Anderson, MD
01614 PFPW
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
200 Hawkins Dr.
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-384-6135
Fax: 319-356-1530
Email: carryn-anderson@uiowa.edu
Kentucky
Mahesh Kudrimoti, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Director of Residency Program
Radiation Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40536
Clinical interests: pancreatic-biliary, hepatic, gynecologic, head and neck cancers and brachytherapy.
Contact: Melissa York, Residency Program Leader
Phone: 859-323-1144
Email: Melissa.York@uky.edu
Maryland
Curtiland Deville, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
401 N. Broadway
Weinberg 1440
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: 410-614-1641
Email: cdeville@jhmi.edu
Theodore DeWeese, MD, FASTRO
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
401 N. Broadway
Weinberg 1440
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: 410-955-2411
Email: deweese@jhmi.edu
Freddy E. Escorcia, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Investigator
Head, Laboratory of Molecular Radiotherapy
Radiation Oncology Branch | Molecular Imaging Program
National Cancer Institute | National Institutes of Health
Building 10, Room 1B55
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 240-858-3062
Email: freddy.escorcia@nih.gov
Website: https://ccr.cancer.gov/Molecular-Imaging-Program/freddy-e-escorcia
Lawrence Kleinberg, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Cyberknife Program
Vice Chair, Clinical Research
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
401 North Broadway, Suite 1440
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: 410-614-2597
Email: kleinla@jhmi.edu
Amol Narang, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
401 N. Broadway
Weinberg 1440
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: 410-502-3823
Email: anarang2@jhmi.edu
Brandi R. Page, MD
Assistant Professor - Radiation Oncology and Molecular Sciences
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Suburban Hospital - Outpatient Center in Bethesda
6420 Rockledge Drive, Suite 1200
Bethesda, MD 20817
Office Phone: 301-896-2012
Fax: 301-896-6331
Desk Phone: 301-896-2611
Johns Hopkins Radiation Oncology
401 North Broadway, Suite 1440
Baltimore, MD 21231-2410
Phone: 443-287-7973
Fax: 410-502-1419
Email: bpage5@jhmi.edu
Research interests: Head and Neck Cancers, Brain Tumors and Global Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts
Ariel Hirsch, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
830 Harrison Ave.
Moakley Bldg Lower Level
Boston, MA 02118
617-638-7070
ariel.hirsch@bmc.org
Rachel B. Jimenez, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Department of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Office phone: 617-726-7559
Email: rbjimenez@partners.org
New Jersey
Malcolm Mattes, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Room 2038
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 617-549-9027
Email: malcolm.mattes@gmail.com
New York
Janna Z. Andrews, MD
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
450 Lakeville Rd.
New Hyde Park, NY 11042
Phone: 516-321-3000
Email: JAndrews3@nshs.edu
William Bodner, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care;
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2590
Phone: 718-405-8554
Email: wbodner@montefiore.org
Fumiko Chino, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Email: chinof@mskcc.org
Jana Fox, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2590
Phone: 718-920-2838
Email: jfox@montefiore.org
Madhur Garg, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2590
Phone: 718-920-4361
Email: mgarg@montefiore.org
Chandan Guha, MD, PhD (Basic or Clinical Mentor)
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, New York 10467-2590
Phone: 718-920-2702
Email: cguha@montefiore.org
Research interests: Cell transplantation to repair radiation injury; preparative irradiation to facilitate liver cell repopulation and stem cell engraftment in vivo; immunomodulation of radiation therapy-radiation enhanced tumor vaccines and development of novel radiosensitizers.
Shalom Kalnicki, MD (Clinical Mentor);
Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2590
Phone: 718-920-4361
Email: skalnick@montefiore.org
Research interests: Focuses on new technologies like intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), target motion management with 4-D radiation planning and functional tumor imaging with PET-CT fusing techniques which enhance precision of tumor targeting while sparing surrounding normal tissues. Clinical interests focus on head and neck, prostate and breast cancers.
Keyur Mehta, MD (Clinical Mentor)
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2590
Email: kmehta@montefiore.org
Virginia W. Osborn, MD
Attending Physician, NYCHHC Elmhurst and Queens Hospitals
Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Elmhurst Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology
79-01 Broadway
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Phone: 718-334-5900
Email: osbornv@nychhc.org
Anurag K. Singh MD (Clinical Mentor)
Professor of Medicine and Radiation Medicine Residency Program Director, University at Buffalo School of Medicine
Professor of Oncology and Director of Radiation Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Elm and Carlton Streets
Buffalo, NY 14263
Phone: 716-845-1180
Fax: 716-845-7616
Email: Anurag.Singh@RoswellPark.org
Research interests: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), radiation sensitizers and radioprotectors, development and implementation of imaging to improve radiation targeting; focus on breast, head and neck, lung and prostate cancer.
North Carolina
Gita Suneja, MD MSHP
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Duke University School of Medicine
30 Duke Medicine Circle, Room 05125 B
Durham, NC 27710
Email: gita.suneja@icloud.com
Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1030
Phone: 336-713-6525
Email: kwinkfie@wakehealth.edu
Ohio
Jose G. Bazan, MD, MS (Clinical Research)
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
The Ohio State University
460 W. 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614-688-7363
Email: Jose.Bazan2@osumc.edu
Areas of interest: Breast and thoracic malignancies
Jordan Kharofa, MD
Assistant Professor
Residency Program Director
University of Cincinnati
Department of Radiation Oncology
234 Goodman Street, ML 0757
Cincinnati, OH 45267
Office: 513-584-4073
Fax: 513-584-4007
Email: kharofjr@ucmail.uc.edu
Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD (Basic or Clinical Mentor)
Cleveland Clinic
Department of Radiation Oncology
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
Phone: 216-445-9799
Email: Yuj2@ccf.org
Research Interests: Glioma stem cell biology, cancer hypoxia and use of radiotherapy to enhance immunotherapy.
Oregon
Nima Nabavizadeh, MD
Assistant Professor, Residency Program Directory, Medical Student Clerkship Director
Department of Radiation Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd., KPV4
Portland, OR 97239
Email: nabaviza@ohsu.edu
Charles R. Thomas Jr., MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., KPV4
Portland, OR 97239
Email: thomasch@ohsu.edu
Pennsylvania
Sushil Beriwal, MD
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
300 Halket St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-641-4600
Email: beriwals@upmc.edu
Adam P. Dicker, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology
Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Co-Chair, Translational Science, NRG Oncology, a NCI-Cooperative Group
Philadelphia, PA
Phone: 215-955-6700
Email: adam.dicker@jefferson.edu
Research Interests: Lab has utilized zebrafish as new model to study radiation response in whole organism with microarray analyses to assess genetic modulation following exposure to radiation both in the presence/absence of radiomodifying agents. DOD and PCF research funding focuses on “self-seeding” of prostate cells with metastatic properties back to site of origin which contributes to disease progression.
Dwight E. Heron, MD, FACRO, FACR
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
UPMC Cancer Pavilion
5150 Centre Ave., Ste. 545
5th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412-623-6723
Email: herond2@upmc.edu
Samuel Swisher-McClure, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Residency Program Director
Department of Radiation Oncology
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Office: 215-220-9460
Email: swisher-mcclure@uphs.upenn.edu
Clinical and Research Interests: Head and neck and thoracic malignancies, health services and outcomes research, health equity and health policy.
South Carolina
Jennifer L. Harper, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Medical University of South Carolina
169 Ashley Ave., MSC 318
P.O. Box 250318
Charleston, SC 29425
Phone: 843-792-3271
Email: harperjl@musc.edu
Tennessee
David Schwartz, MD, FACR
Professor and Vice-chair
Director, Center for Health Equity
Department of Radiation Oncology
UTHSC-West Cancer Center
1265 Union Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: 901-516-7367
Fax: 901-516-7370
Email: dschwar4@uthsc.edu
Waleed F. Mourad, MD
Professor and Medical Director of Radiation Oncology
Erlanger Heath system
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Chattanooga, TN
Phone: 347-782-7886
Email: Waleed.Mourad@erlanger.org
Texas
Kevin V. Albuquerque, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Moncrief Radiation Oncology Center
5801 Forest Park Rd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9183
Phone: 214-645-8525
Email: kalbuq@outlook.com
Clifton (Dave) Fuller, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Head and Neck Section
Department of Radiation Oncology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, 77030
Phone: 832-703-3169
Email: CDFuller@mdanderson.org
Sunil Krishnan, MD, FACP
John E. and Dorothy J. Harris Professor
Director, Center for Radiation Oncology Research
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Unit 097, Y6.6006a
MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd.
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-563-2377
Fax: 713-745-2186
Email: skrishnan@mdanderson.org
Michelle S. Ludwig, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
UT School of Public Health
Smith Clinic, Attwell Radiation Therapy Center
2525-A Holly Hall
Houston, TX 77054
Phone: 713-566-3662
Email: Michelle.Ludwig@bcm.edu
Chelsea C. Pinnix MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Hematologic Malignancy Section
Department of Radiation Oncology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Email: ccpinnix@mdanderson.org
Virginia
Shiyu Song, MD, PhD (Clinical Mentor)
Associate Professor/Residency Program Director
Deptartment of Radiation Oncology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
401 College St./B-122, P.O. Box 980058
Richmond, VA 23298
Phone: 804-828-2794
Fax: 804-828-6042
Email: ssong@mcvh-vcu.edu
Research interests: Head and neck cancers, lymphomas, lung malignancies and central nervous system tumors
Wisconsin
Bethany Anderson, MD
University of Wisconsin
Radiation Oncology
600 Highland Ave, K4/B100
Madison, WI 53792
Phone: 608-263-8500
Email: anderson@humonc.wisc.edu
Malika L. Siker, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals
Department of Radiation Oncology
9200 West Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-805-4493
Email: msiker@mcw.edu