Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
I am an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care, in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. As an early-career physician-scientist, my goal is to improve follow-up care for survivors of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers. I am passionate about addressing gaps in care and knowledge of fertility outcomes for this group of patients who will long carry the burden of effects of cancer treatment on their health.
I earned my medical degree at the Belarusian State Medical University in Minsk, Belarus, in 2006 and after completion of residency in my home country I relocated to the United States. I then completed residency in General Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco-Fresno in 2014 followed by the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship training at the University of California, San Diego in 2017. Additionally, in 2018, I completed a master's program in clinical research at the University of California, San Diego.
Through my position in the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Division at UTSW, I sought to become an integral part of the long-term follow-up program. I have participated in many projects to improve the care of childhood cancer survivors and facilitate care transitioning to adult programs.
I have built the inaugural Fertility Preservation program at CH to improve quality of care and reproductive outcomes for our patients, starting at the time of diagnosis and ultimately improving quality of later life. I perform and research ovarian tissue cryopreservation for CCS; CH is one of the few institutions in Texas performing this procedure. On a national level, I lead the Ovarian Silo in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines for Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers, which is tightly connected to my clinical and research interests.