2019 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting Fellow Poster Presentations:
Our fellowship was well represented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference held in December 2019 in Orlando, FL. A list of oral and poster presentations presented during the where our fellows served as primary author or co-author include:
1. Pooja Mehra MD: “Multidisciplinary Implementation of an Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy Treatment Protocol”
2. Victor Orellana-Noia MD: “Evaluation and Treatment of Burkitt Lymphoma in Modern Era: Real world Outcomes and Prognostication Across 26 US Cancer Centers”
3. Victor Orellana-Noia MD: “Outcomes of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Burkitt Lymphoma and CNS Involvement Treated in the Modern Era: a Multi-institution Real World Analysis”
4. Krista Isaac DO: “Efficacy of Therapies Following Venetoclax Discontinuation in CLL: Focus on B-cell Receptor Transduction Inhibitors and Cellular Therapies.”
5. Victor Orellana-Noia MD: “Current Selection Patterns, Toxicities, and Outcomes of Pre-Transplant Salvage Rx Regimens in Pts with R/R HL: Results of a Multicenter Retrospective Study.”
6. Krista Issac DO and Victor Orellana-Noia MD: “Fitness and Anthracycline Use in Front-Line Therapy for Older Patients with cHL: a Multi-Center Retrospective Analysis.”
7. Krista Issac DO: “Distance Does not Matter: Excellent Survival Outcomes for Leukemia Patients in Rural Appalachia.”
Abeer Alfaraj, MD
Bayhealth Hematology/Oncology Associates, Milford, DE
Puja Arora, MD
University Hospitals – UH Seidman Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH
Carolyn Carrera, MD
IHA Hematology Oncology at St. Joe’s, Ann Arbor, MI
Lindsey Hathaway, MD
Maine General Health, Portland, ME
Our Graduating Fellows in June 2020
Erin McLoughlin, MD
“UVA has provided a superb environment to train, both for residency and fellowship. The mentorship and support from faculty has been one of the highlights of my training at UVA. I had numerous opportunities to participate in exciting research projects and was fortunate enough to travel to three international conferences during fellowship to present projects. I could not have asked for better co-fellows; their support and camaraderie made my experience here very special. I feel very prepared (yet appropriately terrified!) to start the next chapter in my career.”
Victor Orellana-Noia, MD
“During fellowship I have worked closely with Drs Craig Portell and Michael Williams, seeing patients with lymphoma and CLL and becoming increasingly involved in lymphoma clinical research. I have developed two prospective clinical trials using immune-based targeted therapies in non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphoma, participated in a number of large-scale retrospective analyses, and recently presented data from our own multi-center retrospective study on older patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma at the ASH Annual Meeting. After completing fellowship, I will be joining the lymphoma faculty at Emory University where I aim to continue my work as a clinical investigator.”
Danny Reed, MD
“At the outset of fellowship, I knew I wanted to pursue academic medicine and specialize in hematologic malignancies. I found success at UVA with several mentors who challenged me to grow as a person and physician. Opportunities like designing and implementing my own clinical trial from its earliest stages to publishing several retrospective studies, case reports, review articles and chapters have molded my early career as a leukemia physician. Not only have I been surrounded by supportive faculty, but my co-fellows are phenomenal. While I am sad to be leaving my UVA family, I know that they have prepared me for my next adventure.”
Our new fellows entering joining us in July 2020:
Samantha DiBenedetto, MD
Medical School: St. Georges University
Internal Medicine Residency: University of Florida, Gainesville
Eric Pierce, MD
Medical School: East Carolina University (Brody)
Internal Medicine Residency: University of Virginia
Nicholas Schmidt, MD
Medical School: University of South Carolina
Internal Medicine Residency: University of Virginia
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