Hematology / Oncology Fellowship

Current Fellows

Learn more about the fellows currently participating in the Hematology / Oncology Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center:

First Year Fellows
Adrienne Hammil MD, PhD	Education: Medical School: University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center Internship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Research Interest: Cell cycle control and how its failure leads to cancer, particularly in a hereditary or potentially hereditary way.
Ted Johnson, MD, PhD	Education: Medical School: Medical College of Georgia Internship: Medical College of Georgia Residency: Medical College of Georgia Research Interest: Mechanisms of immune tolerance, the role they plan in the establishment and maintenance of neoplastic states, and the potential to exploit such tolerance to improve engraftment rates in bone marrow transplant; and the immunobiology of AML and the development and characterization of immunotherapeutic anti-neoplastic agents.
Kasiani Myers, MD	Education: Medical School: Case Western Reserve University Internship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Research Interest: Gene expression and its effect on tumor responsiveness and prognosis and targeted therapies.
Ben Mizukawa, MD	Education: Medical School: University of Utah School of Medicine Internship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Research Interest: Investigation of the role of Rac GTPases in myeloid leukemogenesis and their potential as therapeutic targets using Rac knockout mice and retrovirus-mediated gene transfer techniques.
Second Year Fellows
Lars Muller, MD	Education: Medical School: Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany Internship: Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Research Interest: Elective experience at Cincinnati Children's in gene therapy of Fanconi anemia.
Christine Phillips, MD	Education: Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine Internship: Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago Residency: Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago Research Interest: Pharmocogenetics in leukemia, particularly AML. She is also researching the response of patients with genetic instability syndromes, such as Fanconi anemia, to DNA damage induced by diagnostic CT scans.
Melissa Rayburg, MD	Education: Medical School: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Internship: University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio Residency: University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio Research Interest: Risk Stratification of the febrile neutropenic pediatric patients.
Third Year Fellows
Francis Eshun, MD	Education: Medical School: University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana Internship: Lincoln Medical Center/Cornell University School of Medicine, Bronx, NY Residency: Lincoln Medical Center / Cornell University School of Medicine, Bronx, NY Research Interest: The use of oncolytic viruses and anti-angiogenesis in the therapy of pediatric sarcomas.
Sabine Mellor-Heineke, MD	Education: Medical School: Medizinische Hochschule Hanover, Germany Internship: Staedtisches Klinikum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Residency: Staedtisches Klinikum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Research Interest: Bone Marrow Transplantation
Ajay Perumbeti, MD	Education: Medical School: Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine Internship: Upstate Medical University Residency: Upstate Medical University Research Interest: The use of gene therapy to cure sickle cell disease
Phillip Roehrs, MD	Education: Medical School: USC School of Medicine, Columbia, SC Internship: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Residency: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of congenital neutropenia.
Fourth Year Fellows
Trent Hummel, MD	Education: Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Internship: Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Akron, OH Residency: Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Akron, OH Research Interest: Neurofibromatosis type 1 related tumors, biomarker development, and neuro-oncology.
Eric Mullins, MD	Education: Medical School: University of Missouri, Columbia Internship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Research Interest: The interplay between the hemostatic system and the immune system in the setting of inflammatory diseases and infection.