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For Khalaf, a clinical associate professor in the UF Division of Hematology and Oncology, serving as a mentor is deeply personal.

An expert in caring for patients with gynecologic malignancies, Murphy serves as a professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology and as the assistant director for clinical education at the UF Health Cancer Center. Prior to serving a one-year appointment as senior associate dean for graduate medical education and designated institutional official last July, she was the program director for the adult hematology/oncology fellowship program.

Muhammad Junaid Tariq, MD, was drawn to hematology and oncology by the rapidly evolving science and the opportunity to help patients live full lives. After receiving his medical degree from King Edward Medical University in Lahore, Pakistan, he completed a residency in internal medicine at the John H.

An expert in caring for patients with gynecologic malignancies, Murphy serves as a professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology and as the assistant director for clinical education at the UF Health Cancer Center. Prior to serving a one-year appointment as senior associate dean for graduate medical education and designated institutional official last July, she was the program director for the adult hematology/oncology fellowship program.

Dina Khalaf, MD, will provide personalized treatments, including bone marrow transplants, for patients with bone marrow failure and blood cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, the most aggressive adult leukemia. Dr. Khalaf was drawn to UF by the leadership at the UF Health Cancer Center and UF…

Amin Sobh, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UF College of Medicine who recently completed his postdoctoral training in the lab of Jonathan D. Licht, M.D., director of the UF Health Cancer Center. Sobh studies multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer.

North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System (NF/SGVHS) has been selected by SWOG to lead a Storefront Support Program for oncology research. SWOG is a National Cancer Institute-supported, or NCI-supported, organization that conducts clinical trials in adult cancers. The Storefront program establishes a regional network of partner sites using a hub-and-spoke…

Merry Jennifer Markham, M.D., FACP, FASCO Merry Jennifer Markham, M.D., FACP, FASCO, a professor in the UF Division of Hematology and Oncology, has been appointed the UF Health Cancer Center’s inaugural medical director for women’s cancer innovation and survivorship. In this role, she will work with clinicians and investigators to…

UF Health at the American Society of Hematology 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition The UF Health Cancer Center will be well-represented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 66th Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Diego from Dec. 7-10. The ASH Annual Meeting is the most comprehensive hematology event of the…

Leighton Elliott, M.D. Hematology and Oncology Specialist A trained biomedical engineer, Leighton Elliott, MD, was 11 hours away on a mission trip in Vietnam helping to fit patients with prosthetic legs when he learned his first child had been born. The news arrived via a frantic series of missed Skype…