Division of Medical Oncology

Medical Oncology Team

Ohio State's Division of Medical Oncology has top physicians and researchers working towards a cancer-free world.

Leadership

Christian Rolfo MD, PhD

Christian Rolfo MD, PhD

Director, Division of Medical Oncology
 
Margaret E. Gatti-Mays MD, MPH
I am section chief of Breast Medical Oncology and an associate professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at the OSUCCC – James, where I specialize in breast cancer, immunotherapy, side effects from immunotherapy and rare subtypes of breast cancer like small-cell breast cancer.

Breast Cancer

Gilbert Bader, MD
I became a cancer specialist because it’s an honor to care for and support people as they navigate what is likely the most challenging time in their life.
Mathew Cherian, MBBS
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer, one of the most common types of cancer in women in the United States.
Ashley P Davenport, MD, MEd
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with breast cancer.
Margaret E Gatti-Mays, MD, MPH
I am section chief of Breast Medical Oncology and an associate professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at the OSUCCC – James, where I specialize in breast cancer, immunotherapy, side effects from immunotherapy and rare subtypes of breast cancer like small-cell breast cancer.
Kai C Johnson, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in caring for patients with breast cancer, including its aggressive and rare forms.
Dionisia M Quiroga, PhD, DO
I am a breast medical oncologist and assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Arya Mariam Roy, MD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in treating breast cancer.
Sagar D Sardesai, MD, MPH
I am a breast medical oncologist and researcher who joined the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University in 2016 after completing my fellowship training in hematology and oncology at Indiana University (IU).
Daniel G Stover, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer.
Robert Wesolowski, MD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in treating patients with breast cancer, including female and male breast cancers, ductal breast carcinomas, lobular carcinomas, medullary carcinomas and inflammatory breast cancers.
Nicole O Williams, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in managing the treatment of patients with breast cancer.

Endocrine Cancers

Bhavana Konda, MD, MPH
I am a medical oncologist specializing in thyroid, adrenocortical and neuroendocrine tumors.
Dipen C Patel, MD
As a medical oncologist at the OSUCCC – James, I focus on providing the best care possible for patients with rare cancers.
Vineeth K Sukrithan, MBBS
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in the study and treatment of neuroendocrine cancer, thyroid cancer and adrenocortical cancer.

Gastrointestinal Cancers

John L Hays, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating peritoneal cancers stemming from gastrointestinal and gynecological origins, such as ovarian and colorectal cancer, and cancers of the appendix and small intestine.
Ning Jin, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, particularly esophageal cancer, small intestine cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer and hepatobiliary cancer.
Ashish Manne, MBBS
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating gastrointestinal malignancies, such as esophageal cancers, colorectal cancers and hepatopancreaticobiliary tract cancers, which include cancers of the pancreas, ampulla, liver and biliary tract.
Arjun Mittra, MD
I am an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at the OSUCCC – James.
Anne M Noonan, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer and gastrointestinal malignancies like esophageal, pancreatic and colorectal cancers, as well as hepatocellular carcinoma.
Shafia Rahman, MD
As a medical oncologist at OSUCCC – James, I specialize in treating gastrointestinal malignancies such as pancreatic, colorectal, hepatobiliary and gastroesophageal cancers.
Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with advanced prostate and colorectal cancers, including soft tissue sarcoma.

Genitourinary Cancers

Fuat Bicer, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in caring for patients with genitourinary cancers.
Steven K Clinton, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer.
Katharine A Collier, MD, MSc, MS
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating urinary cancers including bladder, kidney, prostate, and testicular cancer.
Edmund Folefac, MB BCh
I am a medical oncologist specializing in genitourinary cancers, melanomas and lung cancers.
Timothy D Gauntner, DO, PhD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of genitourinary malignancies, including prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers.
Lingbin Meng, MD, PHD
As a medical oncologist, I specialize in treating malignancies affecting the reproductive and urinary systems, including prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers.
J Paul Monk, MD
I’m a medical oncologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine.
Amir Mortazavi, MD
As a medical oncologist, I manage all types of genitourinary malignancies, such as prostate, testicular, kidney and male genitalia cancers, yet my primary focus is clinical bladder cancer care.
Yuanquan Yang, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating genitourinary malignancies, including prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancer.
Danielle E Zimmerman, MD
As a medical oncologist at the OSUCCC – James, I specialize in treating patients with reproductive and urinary system malignancies including prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers.

Head and Neck Cancers

Priyanka Bhateja, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating cancers arising in the head and neck region.
Marcelo R Bonomi, MD
I’m a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of head and neck cancers, including new chemo-radiation techniques, immunotherapy and management of patients with recurrent or metastatic cancers.

Lung Cancer

Asrar A Alahmadi, MBBS, MS
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating thoracic malignancies, including non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, thymoma and mesothelioma.
Timothy F Burns, MD
I am a physician-scientist and medical oncologist at the OSUCCC – James, specializing in treating thoracic malignancies including non-small cell lung and small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma and thymoma.
David P Carbone, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in creating cutting-edge treatments for patients with lung cancer.
Jinesh S Gheeya, MD, PHD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in caring for patients with lung cancers.
Kai He, PhD, MD
I am a board-certified medical oncologist and assistant professor of medicine in the Thoracic Oncology Program at The Ohio State University.
Jacob M Kaufman, MD, PhD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with lung cancer.
Mingjia Li, MD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in treating lung cancers, with an emphasis on providing advanced immunotherapies to enhance patient outcomes.
Regan M Memmott, MD, PhD
I lead a translational research program that identifies mechanisms by which lung cancer may become resistant to targeted therapies and develops strategies to overcome these mechanisms.
Dwight H Owen, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with thoracic malignancies, including lung cancer, mesothelioma and thymic cancers.
Carolyn J Presley, MD, MHS
I am an Associate Professor on the tenure track in the Division of Medical Oncology/Department of Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center and The James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute.
Peter G Shields, MD
I am a medical oncologist specializing in the care of patients with lung cancer.

Cutaneous Oncology

Kari L Kendra, MD, PHD
I am a medical oncologist focusing on skin cancers and a professor of internal medicine.
Richard C Wu, MD, PHD
I am a board-certified medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with cutaneous lymphoma and other types of skin cancer.

Sarcoma

James L Chen, MD
I’m a medical oncologist and researcher treating patients with sarcomas as well as poorly classified and difficult-to-treat tumors.
Marium Husain, MD, MPH
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with soft tissue and bone sarcomas and I serve as an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University.
David A Liebner, MD
I am a medical oncologist with a clinical specialization in bone and soft tissue sarcoma.
Gabriel R Tinoco Suarez, MD
I am a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients diagnosed with bone and soft tissue sarcomas.

Immunotherapy Management Clinic

Alexa S Meara, MD, MS
I am a rheumatologist in the Division of Oncology, exploring the interface of oncology and rheumatology.

Research Faculty

Utkarsh Acharya, DO
I am an associate professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and an attending physician within the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center – Arthur G.
Ephraim Abrokwa Ansa-Addo, PhD
I am a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program at the OSUCCC – James, where my research is centered on characterizing the roles of different subsets of regulatory T (Treg) cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and their impact on cancer progression, as well as the fate commitment of antitumor T cells to exhaustion.
Dharini Mukeshkumar Bhammar, MBBS, PhD
As a member of the Center for Tobacco Research and the Cancer Control Program at the OSUCCC – James, I focus my research on important questions related to tobacco control, obesity, respiratory physiology and fitness.
Theodore Michael Brasky, PhD
I am a member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center's Cancer Control Program and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Tong Chen, MD, PhD
I am a physician-scientist who believes that cancer chemoprevention is a cornerstone of cancer control.
Diego de Miguel Perez, PhD
As a research assistant professor at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, my work is focused on the biological mechanisms that cause tumor progression and tumor resistance to immunotherapies.
Hakimeh Ebrahimi Nik, PhD
With over a decade of experience investigating the interactions between tumor cells and the immune system, my research is focused on advancing novel immunotherapies to enhance cancer patient outcomes.
Feng Hong, MD, PhD
I am a member of the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology and the Cancer Biology Program at the OSUCCC – James, where my research focuses on investigating the mechanisms of regulation by unfolded protein response (UPR) and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the context of liver diseases, including cancer and fatty liver.
Brittney Lee Keller-Hamilton, PhD, MPH
I am an epidemiologist and assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University.
Yoshi Koguchi, MD, PhD
I am an associate professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Oncology and a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program at the OSUCCC – James.
Zihai Li, MD, PhD
I am a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program at the OSUCCC – James and the founding director of the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology (PIIO), which is dedicated to transforming the OSUCCC – James into a leader in basic and clinical immunology research, including prevention and survivorship.
Darren M Mays, MPH, PhD
I am a behavioral scientist and a member of the Cancer Control Program and the Center for Tobacco Research at the OSUCCC – James.
Mark P Rubinstein, PhD
I am an associate professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University and a researcher in the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology at the OSUCCC – James, where I also serve as a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program.
Ce Shang, PhD
I am an Associate Professor in Medical Oncology at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Dan Spakowicz, PhD
I am a research assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University and a member of the Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program at the OSUCCC – James.
Fred Kinyuy Tabung, PhD, MSPH
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Ohio State and a member of the Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program at the OSUCCC – James, where my research focuses on the role of diet and lifestyle in cancer risk and survival, specifically among patients with gastrointestinal cancers.
Alayna Pauline Tackett, PhD
I am a pediatric psychologist and assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University.
Theodore Wagener, PhD
I am the Director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program at the OSUCCC – James.
Linghua Zheng, PhD, BS
I am an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University and a member of the TBD Program at the OSUCCC – James.