Fellows
Sairah Ahmed MB, BS
Third 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.
Wendy S. Oatis, MD
Third Year Fellow
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.
Kavitha Ramchandran, MD
Third 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.
Tara Sanft, MD
Third Year Fellow
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.
Josephine Feliciano, MD
Second 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.
Marissa Hill, MD
Second 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.
Nushmia Khokhar, MBBS
Second Year Fellow
Bio coming soon
Polina Khrizman, MC
Second 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.
Max Vergo, MD
Second Year Fellow
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.
Lauren Wiebe, MD
Palliative Medicine Fellow
Bio coming soon
Mei-Ean Yeow, MD
Palliative Medicine Fellow
Dr Yeow did her medical training in the UK, at Oxford Univerisity Medical School. She moved to the US in 2002 and completed her internship & residency with the University of Hawaii Internal Medicine Residency Program. She went on to complete a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the Univsersity of California, San Francisco. After working for a year as an Intensivist with Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, she is now pursueing a fellowship in Palliative Medicine. She hopes to be able to bring back what she learns this year to the ICU, where end-of-life issues & goals of care discussions are becoming increasing common.
John P. Galvin, MD
First Year Fellow
John Galvin is returning to Chicago after completing his internal medicine residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame, followed by a masters in cell biology from Loyola University and a masters in public health at the University of Illinois. He went on to complete his medical education at the University of Illinois School of Medicine and internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai. John is happy to be back in Chicago and in the Hematology and Oncology fellowship program.
Timothy Huyck, MD
First Year Fellow
Dr. Timothy Huyck received his BS in Physics and MD from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. He recently finished his residency, including a Chief year, at Creighton.
Irum Kahn, MD
First Year Fellow
Irum Khan attended medical school at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. She worked as an assistant at the Molecular Oncology Research Institute at Tufts University for 1 year and then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She also worked part-time as an internist over the past year before coming to NMH.
Sheetal Kircher, MD
First Year Fellow
Dr. Sheetal Kircher received her BS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL. She then attended Rush Medical College and completed her internal medicine residency training at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
Rupali Roy, MD
First Year Fellow
rupali-roy@md.northwestern.edu
Rupali Roy received her BS in Chemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology from the
