Education
Fellowship Program
The Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellowship program at UCSF is committed to the individual career plans and training needs of each trainee. We strive to create an exciting, dynamic training program for each fellows. The program takes full advantage of the diversity of San Francisco’s community and combines this rich patient population with the extraordinary clinical, educational, and world-class research resources of the University of California. The result is a unique and exceptional training program that prepares our graduates for a significant contribution to the health of children.
At the end of the training years, each fellow will be board eligible and have developed the skills necessary to take excellent, compassionate care of children with malignancies or diseases of the blood and blood forming organs. In addition, each fellow will have a solid foundation in basic clinical, and/or academic research that will enable him/her to make significant contributions to the field of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Trainees can draw on the expertise of world-renowned investigators within the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and in other UCSF departments and research units. Applicants are encouraged to access the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program website or the UCSF Cancer Center site to explore the breadth and depth of this strong institutional commitment to basic and translational investigation in human diseases.
The overall goal of our program is to prepare our fellows to be knowledgeable, compassionate, and competent in the care of children with malignancies or diseases of the blood and blood forming organs. A meaningful accomplishment in research, either clinical, laboratory, or academic, is a required part of the fellowship experience in order to encourage later contributions to the advancement of the field, whether the fellow pursues a career in an academic medical center or in clinical practice. Evidence of intellectual independence in carrying out the research project selected is a requirement, as detailed in the subspecialty board requirements.
Application Process & Selection Criteria
The program employs a holistic review and selects from among eligible applicants on the basis of their preparedness and ability to benefit from the program. Aptitude, academic credentials, personal characteristics, and ability to communicate are considered in the selection. The program does not discriminate with regard to sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status.
The program participates in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). The match takes place in December, 6 months before the fellowship start date.
The applications are handled through the ERAS program, https://www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/eras/.
Current cycle closed. All fellowship positions have been filled, we thank you for your interest and welcome you to check back in 2020 for more updates.
At this time, we are only able to accept applicants with US citizenship or permanent residency into our fellowship program, due to funding restrictions.
Our program requires the following documents to be submitted through ERAS:
- Completed application
- CV
- Three letters of reference, including one from your residency program director
For general questions please contact:
Kristine Roshani
Fellowship Coordinator
UCSF Department of Pediatrics, Box 0110
550 16th Street, Floor 4
San Francisco, CA 94158
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-476-2981
Fax: 415-476-5354
Current Fellows
Anya Levinson
Training Period: 2017 - 2020
Date & Degree: 2014 NY-Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Title of Research: Intrinsic and acquired mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Taymour Hammoudi
Training Period: 2017 - 2020
Date & Degree: 2014 Emory University School of Medicine
Title of Research: Modeling Tumor-Immune Microenvironment Crosstalk with Patient-Derived Organoids
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
A. Yasemin Goksenin
Training Period: 2018 - 2021
Date & Degree: 2016 Tulane University School of Medicine
Title of Research: Characterizing oncogenic alterations in DNA damage and repair pathways
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Griffin Collin
Training Period: 2018 - 2021
Date & Degree: 2015 University of South Alabama College of Medicine
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Betsy Young
Training Period: 2019 - 2022
Date & Degree: 2016 JS Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Bo Qiu
Training Period: 2019 - 2022
Date & Degree: 2017 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
William Temple
Training Period: 2019 - 2022
Date & Degree: 2016 University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Amanda Marinoff
Training Period: 2020 - 2023
Date & Degree: 2017 Harvard Medical School
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Cheryl Peretz
Training Period: 2020 - 2023
Date & Degree: 2017 University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Priya Parikh
Training Period: 2020 - 2023
Date & Degree: 2017 Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Robert Lindquist
Training Period: 2020 - 2023
Date & Degree: 2017 University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Title of Research: TBD
Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow
Former Fellows
Anu Banerjee |
|
Training Period |
1996 - 1999 |
Date & Degree |
1992, MD, Tulane |
Title of Research Program |
Clinical Trials in Brain Tumors |
Current Position |
Associate Clinical Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UCSF |
John Hill |
|
Training Period |
1997-2000 |
Date & Degree |
1994, MD , University of Washington |
Title of Research Program |
Molecular biology of Brain Tumors |
Current Position |
Hematology/Oncology Faculty, Dartmouth Medical School |
Brian Weiss |
|
Training Period |
1997-2000 |
Date & Degree |
1993, MD, Northwestern University |
Title of Research Program |
Mouse models of leukemia -induction of AML by alkalators |
Current Position |
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati Medical Director, Neuroblastoma Program |
Anjulika Chawla |
|
Training Period |
1998-2001 |
Date & Degree |
1995, MD, University of Vermont |
Title of Research Program |
Induction of tolerance in mice |
Current Position |
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Brown University |
Jennifer Duda |
|
Training Period |
1999-2003 |
Date & Degree |
1996, MD-Stanford |
Title of Research Program |
Innate immunity and Cancer |
Current Position |
Adjunct, Stanford University |
Michelle Hermiston |
|
Training Period |
1999-2002 |
Date & Degree |
1997, MD, PhD Washington University |
Title of Research Program |
Regulation of Lymphopoiesis |
Current Position |
Associate Professor, Pediatrics UCSF |
Benjamin Braun |
|
Training Period |
2000-2003 |
Date & Degree |
1998, MD, PhD, UCLA |
Title of Research Program |
Biology of AML |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF |
Ken Lieuw |
|
Training Period |
2001-2004 |
Date & Degree |
1998, MD, PhD Northwestern University |
Title of Research Program |
Tumor suppressor genes- NF-1 in mice |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, Madigan Army Medical Center |
Wilbur Lam |
|
Training Period |
2002-2005 |
Date & Degree |
1999, MD, Baylor College of Medicine 2008, PhD, UCSF/UC Berkeley |
Title of Research Program |
Bioengineering PhD candidate |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, Emory University of Medicine |
Jennifer Lauchle |
|
Training Period |
2002-2006 |
Date & Degree |
1998, MD, University of Maryland |
Title of Research Program |
Gene identification relevant to leukemia transformation |
Current Position |
Genentech Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCSF |
Rosa Sanchez Rosen |
|
Training Period |
2003-2006 |
Date & Degree |
1999, MD, University of Southern California |
Title of Research Program |
Transfusion research |
Current Position |
Physician, Blood System Research Institute |
Theodore Nicolaides |
|
Training Period |
2004-2007 |
Date & Degree |
2001, MD, New York University |
Title of Research Program |
Kinase Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, UCSF |
Galit Rosen |
|
Training Period |
2004-2007 |
Date & Degree |
2001, MD, Tufts University |
Title of Research Program |
Identification of Leukemia Initiating Cells |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, Phoenix Children’s Hospital |
Matthew Gorman |
|
Training Period |
2005-2008 |
Date & Degree |
2002, MD, Rush Medical College |
Title of Research Program |
Hemoglobinopathies |
Current Position |
Physician, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center |
Debbie Sakai |
|
Training Period |
2005-2008 |
Date & Degree |
2001, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Title of Research Program |
Aberrant Signaling Pathways in JMML |
Current Position |
Clinical Assistant Professor, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital |
Denah Taggart |
|
Training Period |
2006-2009 |
Date & Degree |
2003, MD, Chicago Medical School |
Title of Research Program |
Neuroblastoma patients and imaging modalities |
Current Position |
Physician, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center |
Jason Law |
|
Training Period |
2006-2009 |
Date & Degree |
2003, MD, SUNY Downstate |
Title of Research Program |
Signaling Networks in T-Cell Leukemia and Lymphoma |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, Tufts University |
Kristin Shimano |
|
Training Period |
2008-2010 |
Date & Degree |
1998, MM, Double bass performance 2003, MD, Harvard University |
Title of Research Program |
Signaling Networks in Lymphoid malignancies |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, UCSF |
Sarah Tasian |
|
Training Period |
2007-2010 |
Date & Degree |
2001, MD, Baylor College of Medicine |
Title of Research Program |
Signaling Networks in ALL |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania |
Ashley Ward |
|
Training Period |
2007-2010 |
Date & Degree |
2003, MD, Washington University |
Title of Research Program |
Ras effector pathways in leukemogenesis |
Current Position |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF |
Christopher Adrian |
|
Training Period |
2008-2011 |
Date & Degree |
1995, MFA, University of Iowa 2002, MD, Eastern Virginia Medical School 2011, M.Div, Harvard Divinity School |
Title of Research Program |
Medical Ethics |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Writer in Residence, Columbia University Medical Center, Program in Narrative Medicine |
William Clay Gustafson |
|
Training Period |
2008-2011 |
Date & Degree |
2003, Md, PhD, University of Texas |
Title of Research Program |
Neuroblastoma Signaling |
Current Position |
Assistant Adjunct Professor |
Justin Wahlstrom |
|
Training Period |
2010-2011 |
Date & Degree |
2004, MD, Vanderbilt University |
Title of Research Program |
T-ALL Signaling |
Current Position |
Assist. Adjunct Professor, UCSF |
Tiffany Chang |
|
Training Period |
2009-2013 |
Date & Degree |
2006, MD, University of California, Irvine |
Title of Research Program |
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia |
Current Position |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco |
Tannie Huang |
|
Training Period |
2009-2013 |
Date & Degree |
2005, MD, University of South Carolina |
Title of Research |
Multidisciplinary care of patients with brain tumors |
Current Position |
Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Kaiser Permanente |
Erin Karski |
|
Training Period |
2010-2013 |
Date & Degree |
2006, MD, University of Minnesota |
Title of Research |
Ewing Sarcoma |
Current Position |
Assistant Medical Director, Genentech |
Sheila Thampi |
|
Training Period |
2011-2014 |
Date & Degree |
2008, MD, University of California, Los Angeles |
Title of Research |
Skeletal and Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma |
Current Position |
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine |
Elliot Stieglitz |
|
Training Period |
2011-2015 |
Date & Degree |
2008, MD, SUNY Stonybrook |
Title of Research |
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia |
Current Position |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF |
Amit Sabnis |
|
Training Period |
2011-2015 |
Date & Degree |
2008, MD, University of California, San Francisco |
Title of Research |
Rhabdomyosarcoma |
Current Position |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF |
Kieuhoa Vo | |
Traing Period | 2012-2016 |
Date & Degree | 2008, Indiana University, MD |
Title of Research | Clinical impact of bone marrow micrometastatic disease in Ewing sarcoma |
Current Position |
Alexis Melton | |
Training Period | 2012 – 2016 |
Date & Degree | 2009, University of Texas, Southwestern, MD, PhD |
Title of Research | Mechanisms of Cytokine dependent T cell ALL cell division in Ras-GRP1 over-expressing T cell ALL clones |
Current Position |
Craig Forester | |
Training Period | 2012 – 2016 |
Date & Degree | 2009, University of Utah, MD, PhD |
Title of Research | Elucidating the dependence of erythropoiesis on translation initiation factors as a model of Diamond Blackfan Anemia |
Current Position |
Asmin Tulpule | |
Training Period | 2013 – 2016 |
Date & Degree | 2011, Harvard Medical School, MD, PhD |
Title of Research | A CRISPRi screen reveals key pathways that promote sensitivity and resistance to adriamycin in Ewing’s sarcoma |
Current Position |
Benjamin Huang | |
Training Period | 2013 – 2016 |
Date & Degree | 2010, University of California, San Francisco, MD |
Title of Research | Clonal evolution and drug resistance in a mouse model of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
Current Position |
Tiffany Lin | |
Training Period | 2013 – 2016 |
Date & Degree | 2009, Baylor College of Medicine, MD |
Title of Research | Best Practice for Bleeding Disorder Capacity Building in the Underserved US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Current Position: ACGME Clinical Fellow, 3rd year |
Current Position |
Cassie Kline | |
Training Period | 2014 – 2017 |
Date & Degree | 2011, University of California, San Diego, MD |
Title of Research | Investigating the role of a pleitrophic biomarker, KLOTHO, in neurocognitive outcomes in a pediatric neuro-oncology population, 2) Investigating the genetic evolution of low-grade gliomas from time of primary diagnosis to recurrence, 3) Identifying epidemiologic patterns of a pediatric ependymoma population |
Current Position |
David Wang | |
Training Period | 2014 – 2017 |
Date & Degree | 2009, University of Florida College of Medicine, MD |
Title of Research | Immunotherapy in pediatric malignancies |
Current Position |
Beth Winger | |
Training Period | 2014 – 2017 |
Date & Degree | 2011, University of California, San Francisco, MD, PhD |
Title of Research | Defining mechanisms of resistance to IDH1 mutant inhibitors in AML |
Current Position |
Jean Lee | |
Training Period | 2015 - 2017 |
Date & Degree | 2012, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, MD |
Title of Research | |
Current Position |
Prerna Kumar | |
Training Period | 2015 - 2018 |
Date & Degree | 2011, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, MD |
Title of Research | TBD |
Current Position | TBA |
Elizabeth Wadhwa | |
Training Period | 2015 - 2018 |
Date & Degree | 2012, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, MD |
Title of Research | TBD |
Current Position | TBA |
Ashley Koegel | |
Training Period | 2016 - 2019 |
Date & Degree | 2013 Stanford University |
Title of Research | Engineering next generation CAR T cells to treat pediatric AML: enhancing safety through dynamic control and specificity |
Current Position | TBA |
Neela Penumarthy | |
Training Period | 2016 - 2019 |
Date & Degree | 2012 NY-Albany Medical College of Union University |
Title of Research | Telemedicine in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Patients Trial |
Current Position | TBA |
Vanessa Tolbert | |
Training Period | 2016 - 2019 |
Date & Degree | 2012 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
Title of Research | Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in autologous stem cell transplant recipients with neuroblastoma |
Current Position | TBA |
Rita Damico | |
Training Period | 2017-2020 |
Date & Degree | 2014 NY-New York College of Osteopathic Medicine |
Title of Research | The Genomic Landscape of Monosomy 7 B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with SAMD9/SAMD9L Germline Analysis |
Current Position | TBA |
Bao Truong | |
Training Period | 2017-2020 |
Date & Degree | 2014 Harvard Medical School |
Title of Research | N/A |
Current Position | TBA |
Research Resources
Advanced Training in Clinical Research
Advanced Training in Clinical Research (ATCR) is a three academic quarter program intended for post-doctoral fellows and faculty members who desire rigorous training in the methods and conduct of clinical research. This includes instruction in the epidemiologic and biostatistical methods used in observational and experimental clinical research as well as training in the oral and written presentation of clinical research. In addition to required coursework, scholars are expected to develop and implement their research projects throughout the year and will have access to UCSF Training in Clinical Research (TICR) program faculty for methodologic guidance. Trainees achieving program objectives are granted a Certificate of Program Completion.
Pediatric Clinical Research Center
Clinical trials of new drugs for the treatment of cancer in children at UCSF utilize the NIH-funded Pediatric Clinical Research Center within the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), one of six state-of the-art units for children in the United States. We have an active research program that tests new therapies in a range of pediatric cancers. All of the pediatric oncologists at UCSF participate in this important activity by caring for children who are receiving new treatments.
Pediatric Cancer Development Therapeutics Training Opportunities
The UCSF Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology has an active phase 1 clinical trials program. Fellows are encouraged to participate in phase 1 clinics throughout their fellowship. Fellows with a dedicated interest in early phase clinical trials have the opportunity to focus their research training years on developmental therapeutics. This training program includes clinical pharmacology coursework, advanced topics in clinical and translational research, development of a clinical trial protocol, and participation in national consortia.
GME Pathways
There are various other graduate medical education (GME) office pathways available to fellows including pathways in health professions educations, global health, health equity and racial justice and health systems leadership. These are shorter pathways with training that lasts for approximately a month that we hope can be adjuncts to your career development. For more information on these pathways, see GME Pathways.