As of July 1, 2026, the McNair M.D./Ph.D. Scholars program has graduated 43 scholars. They are:
1999: James G. Lamphear, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Physician, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Mission Health, Ashville, N.C.
2000: Gregory J. Bix, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Center, Professor & Vice Chair of Clinical & Translational Research, Vada Odom Reynolds Chair in Stroke Research, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La.
2000: Alicia Schade, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Attending Anesthesiologist, North American Partners in Anesthesia, Backus Hospital, Norwich, Conn.
2001: Lalania Schexnayder, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Physician, Pediatric Neurology, The Baton Rouge Clinic, Baton Rouge, La.
2003: Isaac Brownell, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Senior Investigator & Chief, Cutaneous Development and Carcinogenesis Section, Dermatology Branch, National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
2004: Gautam (Jay) Bhave, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.
2004: Kelvin Moses, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Professor, Department of Urologic Surgery, Director, Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Clinic, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.
2004: Wilmer B. Roberts, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Group, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2004: Vincent Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas
2005: Benjamin J. Frankfort, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Clifton R. McMichael Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2006: Brent A. Hanks, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2006: Edwin J. Ostrin, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Member of the Faculty, Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York City, N.Y.
2006: Thai H. Ho, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Professor, Department of Medicine, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.
2007: Sara Copeland Shalin, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Dermatology, Director, M.D./Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark.
2008: Michiya Nishino, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Anatomic Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
2011: Jay P. Reddy, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
2012: Hsiao-Tuan Chao, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics - Section of Child Neurology and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2012: Albert C. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2013: Adham S. Bear, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Principal Scientist, Early Oncology Clinical Development, Merck, Philadelphia, Pa.
2014: Patrick Spicer, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Medical Director, Carelon Medical Benefits Management Post-Acute Care, Frisco, Texas
2015: James Cotton, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
2015: Aislyn M. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Physician, Dermatology, Comprehensive Dermatology Group, San Diego, Calif.
2015: Minhtran Ngo-Casi, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Director, Clinical Research, Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc., Gaithersburg, Md.
2016: Liubin Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
2018: Mark P. Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lymphoma-Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
2018: Cynthia McClard, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Ophthalmologist, Retina Consultants of Minnesota, Edina, Minn.
2019: Amy Pohodich, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Uveitis Fellow, Ophthalmology, Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore.
2019: Amanda Koire, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass.
2020: Jessica Messier, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Neonatology Fellow, Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
2020: Gary Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Psychiatrist, EVE Psychiatry, Tampa, Fla.
2020: Jarey Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Physician, Radiation Oncology, MedStar Health, Baltimore, Md.
2021: Julia Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pathology, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Fla.
2022: Julie Tomolonis, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Hematology, Oncology, and BMT Fellow, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2023: Colleen Brady Longley, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Pediatrics, Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian, New York, N.Y.
2023: Gerry Koons, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2024: Catherine Bradley, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
2025: Erin Bolte, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
2025: Eric Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
2025:William Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Pathology, University of Washington in Seattle, Seattle, Wash.
2025: Linda Zhang, M.D, Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
2026: Hilda Chan, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
2026: J. Thomas Gebert, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Pediatrics, Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
2026: Joshua Keefe, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
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