Current Fellows
The current fellows in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension come from a wide variety of backgrounds and have diverse academic and research interests.
Elizabeth Abraham: Third Year Fellow
Elizabeth was born in Kerala, India and moved to Nigeria when she was a few months old. She arrived in New York at the age of six and grew up in Long Island where she became a National Merit Scholar and a U.S. citizen. Elizabeth completed her B.S. at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park and received her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She traveled to the Midwest for her pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital/Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth then traveled down I-71 to do her Pediatric Nephrology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Elizabeth is also attending the Masters program in Clinical Research. Elizabeth's research interests include kidney transplantation and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. In addition to Nephrology, Elizabeth enjoys reading nonfiction, cooking spicy foods and spending time with her large extended family.
David Hooper: Third Year Fellow
David was born in Kettering, Ohio but he grew up in the Intermountain West where he learned to enjoy fishing, hiking and camping in the Rocky Mountains, as well as playing organized sports. Shortly after high school he lived in Moscow, Russia for two years, prior to pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Russian Language at the University of Utah. He met and married his wife, Michelle, while attending college and then began his medical education at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Following medical school, Michelle and David (and their three children at the time) moved to Cincinnati where David completed pediatric residency and a year as chief resident. Dave is enjoying his third year of fellowship training at CCHMC and is now the father of 5. He is pursuing a master's degree in biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Cincinnati, as well as advanced training in quality improvement methods through the Quality Scholars Program in Transforming Health Care at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. His goal is to improve the ability to provide personalized care to patients with kidney disease by understanding the genetic, environmental and psychosocial factors that impact patient outcomes and by creating systems capable of delivering highly reliable care.
Megan Lo: Second Year Fellow
Megan Lo was born in Taiwan and came to the U.S. at the age of 6. She grew up in New England, mostly in Massachusetts, before heading to college at Yale, medical school at UMass Medical School in Worcester and completing her pediatrics residency in Portland at the Maine Medical Center. Languages spoken (though not always fluently) include Chinese, English, French, Spanish and some ASL when she is desperate. Nephrology interested her because of the continuity of care yet still in a problem-based field with specific questions to solve. On the non-nephrology side, she is interested in alternative and complementary therapies, hiking, avid reading, ice skating, skate skiing and at some point hopes to return to her piano. Travel destinations have included France, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada and a cross-country drive to Glacier National Park (although if anyone wanted to send her to Hawaii or Puerto Rico she wouldn't object). Her husband is a family practitioner in Evendale who studies Complementary medicine as well. They have no children, just a very needy fat black cat who is already more than they can handle.
Her research currently focuses on finding markers and/or causative factors for FSGS with the goal of more effective treatment and preventing post-transplant recurrence.
Benjamin Laskin: Second Year Fellow
Ben grew up in the Washington, D.C area. He received his B.S. in Economics from Duke University and his M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He moved to Cincinnati for his pediatrics residency and is currently a second year Nephrology fellow at Cincinnati Children's.He is currently enrolled in the Master's program in Clinical Research at the University of Cincinnati. He is interested in health economics and outcomes research as it relates to pediatric nephrology.
Rossana Malatesta-Muncher: First Year Fellow
Rossana attended medical school at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. She then did her residency at Miami Children's Hospital. She enjoys jogging, biking, swimming, skiing, yoga, and cooking.
Edward Nehus: First Year Fellow
Eddie attended medical school at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and completed his residency at Children's Hospital/Ohio State University. He is an NAIA All-American in track and field.
