| Veena Shankaran, MD
Third Year Fellow
v-shankaran@northwestern.edu Dr. Shankaran received her BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, followed by her MD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She completed her internship and residency training at the University of Michigan and subsequently worked as a hospitalist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Her research interests include health outcomes, access to care, and health economics. |
| | Kevin David, MD
Third Year Fellow
k-david@northwestern.edu
Dr. David graduated with a BS in Biology and German from Duke University in 1998. He then went on to receive his MD from Columbia University in 2002. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University is 2005. Prior to starting fellowship at Northwestern, he pursued a research fellowship in genitourinary oncology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and received an ASCO Merit Award for his abstract on perioperative chemotherapy patterns in transitional cell carcinoma. |  |
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| | Katy Goldsborough, MD
Third Year Fellow
k-goldsborough@northwestern.edu
Dr. Goldsborough completed her BA in Chemisty and Physics (cum laude) and her MA in Physics at Harvard University in 1998. She received her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 2003 and finished her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. She is pursuing a fellowship in hematology and oncology. | |
Sairah Ahmed, MB BS 
Second Year Fellow
sairah-ahmed@md.northwestern.edu Sairah Ahmed received her MD from Khyber Medical College in Pakistan and then spent one year in a rotating medicine/surgery internship in Pakistan. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut in Farmington, Connecticut. She subsequently spent a year as chief resident at the University of Connecticut. During her residency she started her Masters in Public Health and is currently working on her thesis. She is pursuing a fellowship in hematology and oncology. | | |
| Tara Sanft, MD 
Second Year Fellow
t-sanft@northwestern.edu Tara Sanft completed her BS in Biology Research at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa on a Regent's Academic Scholarship. She then spent a year working as an Americorps volunteer in the bay area of California where she worked with underserved youth. She graduated medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin and was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Society. She completed her internal medicine residency training at the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She was the chair of the Resident's Curriculum Committee and was awarded the Dean Landsberg Award for excellence in leadership and professionalism. Her interests include both hematology/oncology and palliative care medicine. |
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| | Wendy S. Oatis, MD 
Second Year Fellow
w-oatis@md.northwestern.edu
Dr. Oatis received her BA in Government and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. She received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and practiced law for eleven years, both in private practice and with the United States Department of Justice and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She received her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Society. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. She is pursuing a fellowship in hematology and oncology.
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| | Kavitha Ramchandran, MD
Second Year Fellow
k-ramchandran@md.northwestern.edu
Dr. Ramchandran graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Human Biology and a minor in feminist studies in 1999. She then went on to receive her MD at University of California, San Francisco in 2004. During her medical training she took a one year hiatus to pursue independent research in the area of micrometastases in breast cancer for which her work was recognized at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. She also developed an innovative breast cancer support and education program, the first of its kind, at the San Francisco General Hospital. Prior to starting fellowship at Northwestern, she completed her internal medicine residency at University of California, San Francisco. | |
| | Richard T. Lee, MD
Palliative Medicine Fellow
richardlee@md.northwestern.edu
Dr. Lee attended medical school at George Washington University, completed his internal residency at Stanford University, and recently finished his hematology/oncology fellowship at the Univeristy of Chicago. He is currently working on completing a fellowship in our Palliative Medicine Program. | | | |
| | Max Vergo, MD 
First Year Fellow
m-vergo@md.northwestern.edu
Max Vergo received his BS in biochemistry and went on to complete his medicaleducation at Tufts University School of Medicine. After completing his residency at Massachusetts General Hospitalin Boston, he trained at Dana Farber CancerInstitute and Massachusetts General Hospitalthrough the one year Harvard Palliative Medicine fellowship program. Max is excited to be joining Northwestern in our hematology and oncology fellowship. | | | | | |
 Polina Khrizman, MD
First Year Fellow
p-fradkina@md.northwestern.edu
Dr. Khrizman completed a combined BA/MD six-year medical degree program at the University of Missouri Kansas City. internship and residency in Internal Medicine at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.
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Josephine Feliciano, MD
First Year Fellow
j-feliciano@md.northwestern.edu
Dr. Joy Feliciano is coming to Chicago from Washington D.C. She completed her undergraduate education at Georgetownwith a major in psychology and minor in physics, and attended Georgetown Universityfor medical school. She then continued at Georgetown for her Internal medicineresidency training and is completing her chief residency year prior to herfellowship training at Northwestern. | | | |
| | Nushmia Khokhar, MBBS
First Year Fellow n-khokhar@md.northwestern.edu
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Marisa Hill, MD
First Year Fellow
marisa-hill@md.northwestern.edu
Marisa received her BA in Zoology and German from Miami University, then went on to attend medical school at University of Cincinnati. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University. While there, Marisa participated in several research projects focusing upon the management of gastrointestinal malignancies, and she presented a poster at the ASCO GI Cancers Symposium in 2008. She is excited to be training in Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern.
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