Residents
PGY-5
Nicholas Damico, MD
Hometown: Clarkston, Michigan
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Personal Interests: Watersports, trivia, running, weight lifting and becoming a karaoke legend
Research/Academic Interests: H&N, CNS, protecting the welfare of research subjects and evaluating prospective trials as a full time member of the cancer IRB as well as implementing quality improvement projects to measure/reduce hospitalizations and treatment morbidity
PGY-4
Michael Kharouta, MD
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Medical School: Rush Medical College
Personal Interests: Running, hiking, cooking, trying new restaurants, travelling, tinkering
Research/Academic Interests: Genomic determinants of radiosensitivity and response to immunotherapy, machine learning, SBRT and radiosurgery, re-irradiation
Kevin Chaung, MD
Hometown: Kokomo, Indiana
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Personal Interests: Weightlifting, racquetball, Jeopardy!, trying new restaurants
Research/Academic Interests: CNS, Gamma Knife, SCLC brain metastases, SBRT for oligometastatic disease
PGY-3
Andrew Gross, MD
Hometown: Hartville, Ohio
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University
Personal Interests: Running, hiking, food, traveling, my cats, Sci-Fi novels and movies
Research/Academic Interests: CNS, brachytherapy
PGY-2
Saad Sheikh, MD
Hometown: Pittsford, NY
Medical School: New York University School of Medicine
Personal Interests: Basketball, hiking, mountain biking, creative writing, cooking, exploring Cleveland
Research/Academic Interests: Small molecule therapeutics, immunotherapy, CNS malignancies, SBRT, proton therapy, healthcare disparities
Atallah Baydoun, MD, PhD
Hometown: Ain El Rommaneh, Beirut, Lebanon
Medical School: Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanon
Personal Interests: Biking, Hiking, Listening to Chris De Burgh and Fairuz
Research/Academic Interests: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Deep Learning, Stereotactic Radiation Therapy, Proton Therapy, Biomedical Imaging
Eric Chen, MD
Hometown: Walnut, CA
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Personal Interests: Hiking, dancing, LGBTQ+ advocacy, foraging for mulberries
Research/Academic: Immunology, clinical and translational research