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Christopher Brett, MD
Resident '21, Chief Resident 2020-2021Hometown: Springfield, MO
Undergraduate and Medical School: University of Missouri-Kansas City, 6 year BA/MD program
Residency: Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
Outside interests: Chris and his wife Qiqi have a one year old daughter named Anna and an 18 month old Belgian Malinois named Chief who keep their life very exciting. They are very excited with their transition to the Music City.
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Mohamed Khattab, MD
Resident '21, Chief Resident 2020-2021Hometown: New York, NY
Undergraduate: Cornell University
Medical school: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Internship: Neurosurgery, New York University
Research interests: CNS malignancies and vascular malformations, biotech and device development
Outside interests: Music, food, travel, languages, art
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Neil Newman, MD, MS
Resident '21, Chief Resident 2020-2021Hometown: Livingston, NJ
Undergraduate: Emory University
Medical school: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Graduate school: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Internship: Northwell Health Lenox Hill Hospital
Research interests: Minimizing acute toxicities and maximizing quality of life during radiation therapy for patients with GU and GI malignancies. Analyzing treatment paradigms for lung cancer.
Outside interests: Long distance running, hiking, meditating, reading (theoretical physics, psychology, American history, philosophy, and fiction), cooking, completing his New Years resolutions.
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Brian Bingham, MD
Resident '22Hometown: Lakeland, FL
Undergraduate: Brigham Young University
Medical school: Vanderbilt University
Internship: University of Tennessee - Nashville
Research interests: Mechanisms of metastasis, genomics, glioblastoma multiforme, medical education
Outside interests: Brian and his wife Kelly have two daughters named Olivia and Chloe (5 and 2 years old). Together, they enjoy camping, hiking, exercise, dancing, and writing.
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Anne Rajkumar, MD
Resident '22Hometown: Kodak, TN
Undergraduate: Harvard College
Medical school: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Internship: University of Tennessee Medical Center
Research interests: DNA damage and repair, clinical trials
Outside interests: yoga, cooking, baking, hiking, kayaking, swimming, kickboxing
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Ryan Whitaker, MD, PhD
Resident '22Hometown: Mt Pleasant, IA
Undergraduate: University of Iowa
Medical school: Medical University of South Carolina
Graduate School: Medical University of South Carolina
Internship: Scripps Mercy Hospital
Research interests: Cancer metabolism, drug discovery
Outside interests: Cooking, baking, hiking, golf, movies, travel
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Dakim Gaines, MD, PhD
Resident '23Hometown: Scotch Plains, NJ
Undergraduate: St Mary's College of Maryland
Medical school: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Graduate school: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Internship: Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Research interests: Cancer tumorigenesis, molecular genetics of radiation resistance
Outside interests: Cooking, international travel, spending time with family and friends
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Jill De Vis, MD, PhD
Resident '24Hometown: Aalst, Belgium
Undergraduate: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Medical school: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Graduate school: Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Internship: Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Georgia
Research interests: Brain MR imaging parameters as biomarkers for disease
Outside interests: Cycling, architecture, dining
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Austin Dove, MD
Resident '24Hometown: Memphis, TN
Undergraduate: Lipscomb University
Medical school: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Internship: University of Tennessee - Nashville
Research interests: Medical education; improving quality of life in cancer patients; clinical trials
Outside interests: Spending time with my wife (Kate) and daughter (Margaret), college football, exercise, cooking
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Samuel Jean-Baptiste, MD
Resident '24Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Undergraduate: Emory University
Medical school: FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, FL
Internship: Orange Park Medical Center, FL
Research interests: Improving equity in global cancer care; bioinformatics, fluid biopsy and immuno-oncology
Outside interests: Philosophy, biking, stand-up comedy and electronics tinkering
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Kaleb Darrow, MD
Resident '25Hometown: Knoxville, TN
Undergraduate: University of Tennessee
Medical school: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Internship: University of Tennessee Medical Center
Research interests: Healthcare disparities, improving access to cancer care and clinical trials, predictors of treatment failure
Outside interests: Hiking, camping, cooking, college football, professional basketball
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Kyra McComas, MD
Resident '25Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
Undergraduate: Santa Clara University, CA
Medical School: University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
Internship: Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Transitional Year, Spokane, WA
Research Interests: Immunotherapy, implications for radiosensitivity based on molecular genetics, quality of life
Outside Interests: Hiking, biking, skiing, snowshoeing, writing, reading, history, recipe-developing, cooking, sports, weightlifting, traveling
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Ha Pham, MD, PhD
Resident '25Hometown: Saigon, Vietnam
Undergraduate: College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University
Medical School: University of Central Florida
Graduate School: Carnegie Mellon University
Internship: Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Radiosensitizer and biosensor development, DNA damage response, tumor microenvironment
Outside Interests: Singing karaoke, biking, dogs, music