Third Year Fellows – PGY 6
| Profile Photo | Name | Medical School | Hometown | About Me | Professional Interests |
 | Tamarah Aldawoodi | Al-Nahrain University College of Medicine | Baghdad, Iraq | I enjoy spending time with my family. We fell in love with nature in San Antonio with plenty of outdoor activities. I also love to take road trips, exploring different cultures, and trying different cuisines. | Oncology community practice. |
 | Michael Auster | University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine | Briarcliff Manor, NY | I have a variety of interests outside of medicine, recently I have been loving cooking and learning to bake. I love learning about the history of medicine and have a passion for philosophy. | As I am at the very beginning of my heme/onc career, I am very open to all aspects of this specialty, but I do tend towards general oncology. |
 | Raed Benkhadra | University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine | Rabat, Morocco | I’m a huge NBA and soccer fan, Hala Madrid! I enjoy all outdoor activities including hiking and camping. My other interests include drawing, playing video games, and exploring the local cuisine around me. | Academic based clinical practice in Oncology, with a primary focus in Breast cancer. |
 | Sophia Lee | University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine | Born in South Korea; grew up in Johnson City, TN | I love traveling and exploring diverse cultures and their delicious cuisines. I enjoy trying new restaurants in town so much that I often remember cities by their food. In my free time, I also enjoy watching different musicals and attending orchestra concerts. | Community-based clinical practice in Hematology/Oncology with a primary focus in benign and malignant hematology. |
Second Year Fellows – PGY 5
| Profile Photo | Name | Medical School | Hometown | About Me | Professional Interests |
 | Ranjit Banwait | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine | Carteret, New Jersey | I love endurance sports and being outdoors. I have run 11 marathons and someday hope to compete in all the six world marathons majors. Apart from that I love traveling and I have lived in Ireland for an extended period of time while finishing up my medical school training. Most interesting and exciting place I have visited is Morocco! | Currently undecided between private versus academic based clinical practice. I have prior experience in Malignant Hematology however I am keeping my options open. I am Geriatrics Medicine trained so I hope to bring this aspect my training into my practice of older adults living with cancer. |
 | Iman Doostan | Isfahan University of Medical Sciences | Shiraz, Iran | My passion for Hematology-Oncology originated back at the beginning of medical school. I moved to United States in 2011 to start PhD Program in Cancer Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and later to New York to train in Internal Medicine. Following my training, I worked as a faculty physician at University of Miami with focus mainly to treat patients with hematologic malignancies. I always strive to provide the best care to my patients. Outside medicine, I spend time with my family, try new restaurants, and enjoy outdoor activities. In addition, I am learning and playing violin, and love music. | I am looking forward to practicing in an academic setting after my fellowship training. I would like to pursue physician scientist route in Heme-Onc with focus on identifying mechanisms of resistance to conventional and targeted therapies and identifying novel therapeutics. |
 | Miguel Michel Ocampo | Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara Facultad de Medicina | Sayula Jalisco, Mexico | I enjoy spending time with my family, especially my two nephews, my parents and wife, so I am thrilled to be in San Antonio because now ill be closer with a quick flight to Guadalajara. I am a huge foodie, I love exploring different restaurants and trying new types of food from different cultures and so far San Antonio has not disappointed me at all, everything has been delicious. I look forward to traveling around Texas and getting to know different nearby cities. | I am very interested in solid tumors especially GI and GI as these affect a large percent of the Latin American community and I would like to make an impact in this population given my background. I would like to work in a private practice or community setting so that I may still see a variety in terms of pathology but with a focus on GI and GU. |
 | Abhishek Pandya | A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona | Born in Ahmedabad, India; grew up in Phoenix, Arizona | I love to spend time with family and friends exploring new restaurants, watching and playing pretty much any sport including tennis, cricket, soccer, and basketball. I love to travel, listen to good music, watch movies and read. I am also passionate about climate change, learning about how it impacts the health of individuals, specifically in the field of Oncology. | Still at the beginning of my training so I have wide interests, but I like benign and malignant hematology. |
