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…
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…
Devika Das, MD is a cancer specialist (oncologist) practicing at UF Health Medical Oncology – Davis Cancer Pavilion Devika Das, MD, was fascinated with medicine growing up. She used that passion to propel her through medical school in India. However, it wasn’t until her internal medicine residency at the University…
The UF Health adolescent and young adult oncology team from left to right, Joanne Lagmay, M.D.; Bianca Williams, MSW; Lauren Staley, ARNP; Brian Stover, M.D., and Leighton Elliott, M.D. Photo by Nate Guidry/UF Health Eight years ago, Jennifer Arrington was planning her unborn son’s funeral and her own at the…
Bently Doonan Helen Moore, Ph.D., an associate professor in the laboratory for systems medicine in the division of pulmonary, critical care & sleep, is leading a project that will optimize melanoma cancer therapies in dogs, eventually translating for human use through RNA sequencing and mathematic modelling. Moore is a mathematician…
Richard Bennett Richard Bennett, Ph.D., a research associate professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UF College of Medicine, has received a prestigious five-year, $850,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support research investigating epigenetic mechanisms of cancer. Bennett received the competitive R50 Research Specialist Award,…
