Education

EDUCATION: Hematology & Oncology

Highlight:  Fellow Laahn Foster

The division provides comprehensive education in oncology, stem cell transplantation, and benign and malignant hematology to students and trainees at all levels, including those in the Internal Medicine residency program and in the division’s Hematology and Oncology Fellowship program. Trainees must complete the American Board of Internal Medicine requirements for specialty training in internal medicine before they can begin subspecialty training in Hematology/Oncology. The three-year fellowship program, directed by Christiana M. Brenin, emphasizes training which provides young physicians with the skills to succeed as faculty in academic medicine. It is approved for eight positions; one of these is funded by the Farrow Fellowship, which provides support for pursuit of an M.S. degree in clinical research and for protected time to perform clinical investigation. An additional position supports a dedicated year for Stem Cell Transplant fellowship training.

Fellows gain exposure to, and competency in, a range of disciplines, including stem cell transplantation, radiation therapy, blood banking, hematopathology, specialty diagnostic laboratories (immunology, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, molecular genetics), hemostasis/thrombosis, gynecologic oncology, palliative care and pain control, and chemotherapy administration. The continuity clinic provides a major portion of the fellows’ education in the natural history and management of hematologic-oncologic disorders; they work one-half day a week for the entire three years of their fellowship, accumulating a panel of patients with a variety of disorders for whom they provide longitudinal care.

For the 2012-2013 academic year, Hematology and Oncology fellows were:

Third year:

• Jennifer Shih
• Ali El Sayed

Second year:

• Kyle Brett
• Hillary Maitland

First year:

• Laahn Foster
• Zaw Myint
• Lindsay Morgan O’Brien
• Emaculate Tebit