Hematology/Oncology

Current Fellows

First Year Fellows

  • Rama Al Hamed, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education

    MD 2018, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, Beirut Lebanon

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, Chief Resident, Jacobi Medical Center, New York NY

    Internal Medicine 2023, Jacobi Medical Center, New York NY

  • Ezra Bernstein, MD MPH

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2024
    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2018, University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles CA

    MPH 2021, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York NY 

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, NYU Langone, New York NY

  • Michael Caplan, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2024

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2021, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

  • Brandon DaSilva, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2024

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2021, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, Standford University Health Care, Stanford CA 

  • Rongjia Deng, MD

    Board Certifications

    Internal Medicine 2024

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2021, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

  • Matthew Ehrlich, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2024

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2021, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

  • Tristan Lee, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2020, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC

    Internship & Residency

    Internal Medicine 2023, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center, New York NY

    Fellowship

    2024 Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY

  • Vicky Ro, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2024

    Appointments
    First Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2021, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2024, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

Second Year Fellows

  • Abdul-Hamid Bazarbachi, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023
    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education

    MD 2018, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, Beirut Lebanon

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2023, Jacobi Medical Center, New York NY

    Sminu Bose

  • Sunil Bhatt, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022
    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven CT

    Kara Cicero

  • Jason Cham, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2023, Scripps Clinic/ Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla CA

    Mariam El-Ashmawy

  • Ron Gejman, MD PhD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD/PhD 2020, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA

    Monica Kasbekar

  • Gaston Jean-Louis, MD

    • Chief Fellow

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2024

    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2020, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2023, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

    Ashray Maniar

  • Peter Shahinian, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2020, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Lubbock TX

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2023, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA

    Yun Ryu

  • Jacqueline Tao, MD

    • Chief Fellow

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2020, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2023, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell, New York NY

    Pedro Vianna

  • Lawrence Wu, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    Second Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2020, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dalls TX

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2023, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD

    Alexander Wei

Third Year Fellows

  • Brian Cuzzo, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022
    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education

    MD 2019, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center, Boston MA

    Shaheer Khan

  • Michael Hughes, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022
    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore MD

    Galina Lagos

  • Michael Liu, MD MPH

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023

    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson AZ

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Brown University, Providence RI

    Julia McGuinness

  • Michael May, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2021

    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2018, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons Columbia Universtity, New York NY

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2021, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

    Morgan Lichtenstein

  • Alissa Michel, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022

    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick NJ

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

    Rohan Maniar

  • Lindor Qunaj, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022

    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence RI

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx NY

    Yoanna Pumpalova

  • Natalie Rosen, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022

    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD

    Winston Wong

  • Margaux Wooster, MD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2022

    Appointments
    Third Year Clinical Fellow
    NewYork-Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education
    MD 2019, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem NC

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2022, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY

Fourth Year Fellows

  • Basil Bakir, MD PhD

    Board Certifications
    Internal Medicine 2023
    Appointments
    Fourth Year Clinical Fellow
    New York Presbyterian - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    Education

    MD 2019, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

    PhD 2019, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

    Internship & Residency
    Internal Medicine 2021, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD