Residency and Fellowships

City of Hope is a Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) accredited program and participates in the SSO match. The mission of our breast surgical oncology training program is to educate future academic and community leaders in breast cancer treatment through sound multidisciplinary and advanced breast surgical training.

Program Director: Veronica Jones, M.D.

Associate Program Director: Katharine Schulz-Costello, D.O.

Program Administrator: Christina Perez, C-TAGME

The Clinical Health Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship is a 12-month program during which fellows will gain experience with multiple psychological issues associated with chronic and life-threatening illnesses.

Program Director: Jeanelle Folbrecht, Ph.D.

Program Administrator: Laura Vazquez

The City of Hope® Surgical Oncology Fellowship is a one-year program training future surgeons in surgical oncology and community cancer care. Participants gain expertise in multimodal cancer treatment, subspecialized procedures, tech innovations, and minimally invasive techniques. Training locations include City of Hope's main campus, South Pasadena, Upland, and Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles. The fellowship, integral to City of Hope's Department of Surgery and Division of Surgical Oncology, prepares surgeons to lead in the evolving models of cancer care delivery.

Even in this age of monoclonal antibodies and gene therapy, surgical excision is still the standard of care for many solid tumors, while debulking is often helpful in palliative treatment. City of Hope’s Surgical Oncology Fellowship provides two years of thorough surgical oncology training in both clinical and research settings and is designed to be tailored to the fellow’s individual interests.

Program Director: Lily Lai, M.D.

Program Administrator: Christina Perez, C-TAGME

The Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Fellowship Program at City of Hope National Medical Center is an ACGME accredited two-year program, designed to provide a comprehensive training experience to prepare fellows for a career in endocrinology as clinicians, educators, or physician scientists.

Our program combines the strengths of the City of Hope National Cancer Center and the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center training sites to encompass all aspects of the Endocrinology discipline into the best training experience.

Program Director: Pooja Manroa, M.D.

Program Coordinator: Tanya Garcia

The City of Hope Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program is a three‐year ACGME‐accredited fellowship dedicated to training future leaders in gynecologic oncology. The curriculum includes 12 months of research followed by 24 months of clinical training in gynecologic oncology. One new clinical fellow is appointed each year for a total of three fellows over a three‐year fellowship period. Our program follows the guidelines set forth by the ACGME.

Program Director: Ernest Han, M.D., Ph.D

Program Administrator: Yennifer Ruiz, C-TAGME

City of Hope’s combined Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Program is a three-year ACGME-accredited program designed to provide comprehensive training to future hematology and medical oncology leaders. Upon successful completion of the fellowship program, graduates will be board-eligible for medical oncology and hematology.

Program Director: Matthew Mei, M.D.

Program Administrator: Diana Jimenez

Physicians seeking training in bone marrow transplantation should consider our Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Fellowship, which provides extensive training in all aspects of transplantation research and practice. City of Hope is one of the country's largest and most comprehensive transplant centers.

Program Director: Karamjeet Sandhu, M.D.

Program Administrator: Ofelia Kiedpool, M.S.Ed., C-TAGME

The Hematopathology Fellowship Program at City of Hope is a one-year ACGME accredited fellowship that emphasizes diagnostic neoplastic hematopathology and is designed for fellows interested in either academic or community practice careers.

Program Director: Karl Gaal, M.D.

Program Administrator: Ofelia Kiedpool, M.S.Ed., C-TAGME

The City of Hope ACGME-accredited Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship is a one-year program that offers training by expert faculty in multiple clinical settings in hospice and palliative medicine. Physicians will be trained to become leaders in the field and, at the end of the program, will be eligible to take the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board exam.

Program Director: Sorin Buga, M.D.

Program Administrator: Laura Vazquez

The fellowship is a one-year program that offers unique and comprehensive training in the surgical and nonsurgical care of brain and spine tumor patients at one of the nation’s leading cancer centers. There are three attending neurosurgeons working with specialist in neuro-oncology, radiation oncology, neuropathology, neuroradiology and interventional pain. In addition to refining clinical skills in complex cases, the fellow is enrolled in the Clinical Investigators Training Program, which includes formal instruction in developing clinical protocols, writing grants and biostatistics.

Program Director: Mike Chen, M.D., Ph.D. M.S.

Program Administrator: Yennifer Ruiz, C-TAGME

The Oncologic Surgical Pathology Fellowship at City of Hope is a one-year ACGME program that offers the opportunity to participate in oncologic pathology at a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center level, develop superior diagnostic skills, and receive an education in all aspects of surgical pathology beyond residency training.

Program Director: Rifat Mannan, M.D.

Program Administrator: Ofelia Kiedpool, M.S.Ed., C-TAGME

City of Hope provides academic instruction for physicians in our Radiation Oncology Residency Program (four-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, or ACGME). The overall goal of the program is to train physicians to be outstanding radiation oncologists and provide graduates with a solid foundation in translational and clinical research.

Program Director: Yi-Jen Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Program Director: Jeffrey Wong, M.D.

Program Administrator: Thalia Yaden, C-TAGME

The City of Hope Reconstructive Microsurgery Fellowship is a one-year non-ACGME program that offers training in the evaluation and management of complex reconstructive challenges in all areas of the body. The fellow will master the subspecialty field of reconstructive microsurgery through apprenticeship-style training.

Program Director: Antoine Lyonel Carre, M.D., M.P.H.

Program Administrator: Yennifer Ruiz, C-TAGME

The Urology Oncology Fellowship is unique, as it focuses on clinical training in laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgical interventions. These methods are achieving routine status; therefore, it behooves forward-thinking physicians to be well-versed in their practice.

Program Director: Bertram Yuh, M.D., M.I.S.M., M.S.H.C.P.M.

Program Administrator: Christina Perez, C-TAGME

City of Hope’s Reconstructive Urology & Genitourinary Cancer Survivorship Fellowship is a 12-month training experience with exposure to all facets of male and female urological reconstruction. The training experience will include opportunities to learn both robotic and transvaginal approaches to female pelvic floor disorders (e.g., sacrocolpopexies, vaginal apical suspensions, fascial slings), in addition to male prosthetics, ureteral reconstruction, urethroplasties, etc. We also encourage our fellows to be engaged with organized urology. This includes goals of presenting research at specialty society meetings during the year and authoring one to three manuscripts during the 12-month time frame.

Program Director: Seth A. Cohen, M.D.

Program Administrator: Yennifer Ruiz, C-TAGME

The goal of the Malignant Lymphoma Fellowship Program is to train Oncologist in the diagnosis and management of all types of lymphoma. Each fellow will have had exposure to a variety of research programs and meet clinical and academic goals. At the completion of one year of training, the fellow is expected to be familiar with the natural history of lymphoma, and to be knowledgeable about appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic approaches including autologous transplant and cellular immunotherapy (CAR T cells).

Program Director: Matthew Mei, M.D.

Program Administrator: Ofelia Kiedpool, M.S.Ed., C-TAGME

City of Hope offers medical students, residents and fellows from affiliated California institutions a two-to four-week credited rotation at the main campus in Duarte, California. We offer rotations in many subspecialties taught by world-renowned oncologists. Rotators will receive an experience that is unique to City of Hope.

City of Hope Graduate Medical Education (GME) accepts requests from LCME and osteopathic medical schools, as well as ACGME-accredited programs located in California. Residents and fellows must hold a valid California medical license or PTL.