Winship radiation oncology resident Lisa Sudmeier, MD, has been accepted into the prestigious American Board of Radiology B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway.
June 13, 2019
Winship Cancer Institute radiation oncology resident Lisa Sudmeier, MD, has been accepted into the prestigious American Board of Radiology B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway. As part of the program, Sudmeier will substitute a portion of her clinical training with intensive research. She will spend 21 months of her radiation oncology residency dedicated to investigating strategies to overcome tumor resistance to immunotherapy. Sudmeier will also evaluate changes in the tumor microenvironment in response to radiation.
"We are so proud that Dr. Sudmeier has been recognized with this honor and thrilled that a resident in Winship's Department of Radiation Oncology has yet again been selected for the program," says Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD, Winship's executive director and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology.
This is the third consecutive year that a Winship radiation oncology resident has been chosen for the program.
"We're very proud to support the Holman Pathway and train some of the brightest physician scientists in the nation.," says Winship Radiation Oncology Residency Director Pretesh Patel, MD. "Ours is a program that is among a select few to have residents accepted into the Holman Pathway for three consecutive years."
As a Holman Pathway recipient, Sudmeier will spend more of her time on research which allows her to gather sufficient data to make her eligible for additional grants in the future. Her faculty advisors are Winship Cancer Institute members Rafi Ahmed, PhD, director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Mohammad Khan, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and director of its Medical Student Clerkship.
B. Leonard Holman, MD, was a pioneer in nuclear medicine who made novel advances in the study of cocaine addiction and degenerative brain disease. He served as the Philip H. Cooke Professor of Radiology at Harvard University and Chair of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. There have been 114 graduates of the Holman Research Pathway since it was started in 2002.