Our Fellows

Current Fellows

John Mariano, M.D.
Third Year Fellow

John is a Rochester native from the Greece/Charlotte part of town and went to Aquinas for high school. He stayed relatively local for college at both St. John Fisher College and Cornell University ultimately graduating from Cornell in 2010. He then moved on to a post-baccalaureate research position at the FDA on the NIH main campus in Maryland before returning to the Rochester area for medical school at the University of Rochester. During medical school, he received Physician Scientist training award from the American Society of Hematology for a dedicated research year and ultimately graduated with distinctions in community service, education and research. He then completed his Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at the University of Rochester where he was awarded the American Society of Hematology HONORS award for research and graduated with distinctions in research and education. He is completing a combined fellowship program in Adult and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology with interests in Adolescent and Young Adult oncology, survivorship, and interdisciplinary support for oncology patients. Outside of medicine he enjoys wood-working (on a very amateur scale), his large Italian family parties, exploring parks with his dog, and traveling with his wife/lifetime travel partner, Nicolette.

Laura Duarte, M.D.
Second Year Fellow

Laura was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. She went to university directly from high school and obtained her MD after 6 years; she then practiced medicine for a little while, focusing exclusively in pediatric patients and mostly in Hematology and Oncology cases. She moved to the US in 2019 to complete her residency in Pediatrics at Downstate HSU, formerly SUNY Downstate, in Brooklyn, NY. She is interested in translational research and novel treatments for leukemia as well as benign hematology and bone marrow transplant. When she's not working, she likes reading, listening to and playing music and travelling; she also has a deep and long-lived love for LEGOs.

Recent Graduates

JoAnn Bolude, M.D.
Plush Care Medicine

Renee Boulware, M.D., M.P.H.

Physician at Summerwood Pediatrics, Syracuse, NY

Carol Fries Simpson, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Hematology/Oncology
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester, Golisano Children's Hospital
Carol Fries Simpson, M.D.

Akua Asante, M.D.

Blood Bank/ Transfusion Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester, Golisano Children's Hospital

Akua Asante, M.D.

Sana Usmani, D.O.

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Attending
King's County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

Laila Mahmood, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Georgetown University Medical Center
Children’s National Medical Center

Razia Akhtar, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Amy-Lee Bredlau, M.D., M.S.-C.L.I.

Associate Medical Director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
 

Shannon Norman, M.D.

Attending Physician, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage, AK

Christina Wiedl, D.O.

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Previous Graduates

• Shalu Narang, M.D.
  Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
• Brenda J. Wittman, M.D.
  Attending Physician, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage, AK
• Lauren B. Bruckner, M.D., Ph.D.
  Chief Medical Information Officer
  Roswell Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
• John Horan, M.D., M.P.H.
  Associate Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
• Judeth McGann, M.D.
  Private Practice
  Woodland Healthcare, Woodland, CA
• David N. Korones, M.D.
  Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  Chief, Pediatric Palliative Care
  University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
  David Korones, M.D.
• Allen Eskenazi, M.D.
  Private Practice
  Physicians to Children, Inc., Roanoke, VA
• James Palis, M.D.
  Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
  James Palis, M.D.
• Barbara L. Asselin, M.D.
  Professor, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
  University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
  Barbara L. Asselin, M.D.
• Reggie Duerst, M.D.
  Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
  Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL