Previous Fellows
R. James Koness, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Brown University & Division of Surgical Oncology, Roger Williams Medical Center. Clinical focus on head and neck and breast malignancies.
Konstantino Avradopoulos, MD
Co-Director at the Fallon Breast Cancer Clinic, Worcester, MA.
Maureen A. Chung, MD, PhD
Dr. Chung is a surgical oncologist at Rhode Island Hospital and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Brown University. As a clinician, she has published extensively on the contemporary management of breast cancer and the impact of mammographic screening on breast cancer presentation. Her laboratory is interested in MUC1 cellular localization and its role in chemosensitivity.
Ralph Corsetti, MD
Dr. Corsetti is the Directory of the Tansey Breast Center at Ochsner Medical Center.
Glenroy Heywood, MD
Dr. Heywood also completed fellowships at the NIH and Mayo Clinic in Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary surgery. He is assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center. His research focuses on liver and pancreatic malignancies.
James Gervasoni, MD, PhD
Dr. Gervasoni is Chairman of the Department of Surgery at St. Peters University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ.
Charu Taneja, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine and Director of the Breast Health Center at Roger Williams.
Ihor Pohomarenko, MD
Currently, he is division chief of General Surgery at Griffin Hospital, Derby, CT, and is the Physician Liaison for the cancer center. His surgical interests are in general surgery with particular interest in surgical oncology, including head and neck, breast, gastrointestinal, colorectal and soft tissue cancers.
Michael DiSiena, DO
Clinical staff member at the Berkshires Medical Center, specializing in thoracic and abdominal malignancies.
Ponnandai Somasundar, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Boston University Medical Center and Associate Chief for the Division of Surgical Oncology at Roger Williams. Specializing in Hepatopancreaticobiliary, Endocrine and Laparoscopic surgery.
Tarun Bhandari, MD
Dr. Bhandari specializes in breast surgery in a community based practice in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Bing Yi, MD
Dr. Yi is in community based practice in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Yi specializes in advanced laparoscopic cancer surgery, foregut surgery, and HIPEC.
Cherif Boutros, MD
Current 2nd year fellow.
Kristin Ryan, DO
Current 1st year fellow.