Mary Ann Fenton, MD, FACP is an oncologist at the Lifespan Cancer Institute and a clinical associate professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her specialty area is the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.

Lauren Massingham, MD is with the division of genetics at Hasbro Children’s Hospital; she is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Massingham is board certified in pediatrics and clinical genetics. Her clinical interests include all aspects of pediatric genetics, with specific focus on pediatric genetics and cancer genetics. Her research interests include gene expression profiling of Turner syndrome and Down syndrome. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Genetics Teleconference Feingold Center. 

Dr. Massingham received her medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, VT. She completed a residency in pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, MA as well as a residency in medical genetics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. 

Mari Mori, MD, is with the division of genetics at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and also an assistant professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Mori is board certified in clinical genetics, medical biochemical genetics, and clinical informatics. Her clinical interests include pediatric genetics and biochemical genetics. Her research interests include effects of genetic background on phenotype of Mendelian and complex genetic disorders, and improving clinical care using electronic medical records. 

Dr. Mori received her medical degree from the Nagasaki University School of Medicine in Japan. She went on to earn her MS in biomedical informatics from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed her residency in medical genetics at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital/Ohio State University, Columbus, and fellowship in medical biochemical genetics at Duke University Medical Center in Durham.

Chanika Phornphutkul, MD, is the director of human genetics at Rhode Island and its Hasbro Children’s Hospital, and is an associate professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She provides genetic risk assessment as well as counseling for patients with a family history of genetic disorders. She is board certified in pediatric endocrinology and biochemical genetics.

Phornphutkul received her medical degree from the Chiang Mai University School of Medicine in Thailand, and completed her residency at Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed a fellowship at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Her clinical and research interests focus on biochemical genetics (metabolic disorders), the application of genomic information in clinical medicine and newborn screening.

Gabriela Ballester, MD, is a board-certified hematologist with the Lifespan Cancer Institute. Dr. Ballester gained experience as a hematologist with New York Oncology-Hematology at Albany Medical College. She also served as a hematologist at Hospital Italiano in Buenos Aires and as an assistant professor of hematology/oncology at the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center at Marshall University in West Virginia. Dr. Ballester is a member of the American Society of Hematology.

Ariel Birnbaum, MD, is a medical oncologist at Rhode Island Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio, completed his residency training at the University of Minnesota hospitals, and completed his fellowship in hematology/oncology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. His clinical interests include combined modality treatment for lung cancer and end of life care. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical oncology and a participant in the Brown University Oncology Group.

Rimini A. Breakstone, MD is a medical oncologist who specializes in gastrointestinal cancers. She received her medical degree from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University and completed her residency and fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Breakstone is board certified in hematology, oncology and internal medicine.

Prior to joining the Lifespan Cancer Institute, she was an instructor at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and served on the Unit Based Clinical Leadership Committee focused on inpatient quality improvement measures. Dr. Breakstone is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Medical Association. Her research interests include malignancies of esophagus, stomach, biliary system, pancreas, colon and rectum.

James N. Butera, MD, is a board-certified hematologist/oncologist who treats patients with blood disorders including bleeding and clotting problems, leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. He sees patients at the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island Hospital and the Lifespan Ambulatory Care Center in East Greenwich. He is a clinical associate professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Butera’s research findings have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and he is the site principal investigator at Lifespan for several chemotherapy studies. Among other honors, Dr. Butera has received the Brown University Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award multiple times and been named one of Rhode Island Monthly magazine’s Top Docs for several years.

Heinrich Elinzano, MD is an adult neurologist, with subspecialty training in neuro-oncology and spinal cord injury medicine, and is also an assistant professor of neurology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is experienced in the management of tumors of the central nervous system and has a particular interest in conducting clinical trials for the treatment of primary brain tumors and the neurological complications of systemic cancer.

Elinzano completed his neurology residency at St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center of New York, his spinal cord injury medicine fellowship training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and his neuro-oncology fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and The Neuro-Oncology Branch of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke. Prior to his current position at Rhode Island Hospital, he was an adult neuro-oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center.

Mary Ann Fenton, MD, FACP is an oncologist at the Lifespan Cancer Institute and a clinical associate professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her specialty area is the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.

Randall Ingham, MD, is a hematologist/oncologist with the Lifespan Cancer Institute and is board certified in hematology oncology and internal medicine. Dr. Ingham is an assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He has been a research associate for the vaccine development group at ID Biomedical Corporation/GlaxoSmithKline biologics in Massachusetts. Dr. Ingham is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology.

Humera Khurshid, MD, is the director of the Lifespan Cancer Institute’s Thoracic Multidisciplinary Clinic, where she sees patients and collaborates with a team of specialists to coordinate patient care for newly diagnosed lung cancer patients. She is a medical oncologist with a special interest in geriatric oncology and the care of older lung cancer patients. She is also an assistant professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Seah Lim, MD, PhD, is the director of hematology at the Lifespan Cancer Institute. He comes to Rhode Island Hospital from the Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers in Pittsburgh. There, Dr. Lim led as clinical director of the adult leukemia program, as a hematology-oncologist, and a stem cell transplant physician. Dr. Lim also served as a clinical professor of hematology-oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Alexander Mohler, MD, MS is a neurologist and neuro-oncologist with the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam, and Newport hospitals, and an assistant professor of neurology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Mohler received his medical degree at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, and a master of science in physiology and biophysics from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He completed his neurology residency and a neuro-oncology fellowship at University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Society for Neuro-Oncology

Howard P. Safran, MD is the chief of hematology/oncology at the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals, and the medical director for the Brown University Oncology Group. Safran is a professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a nationally recognized leader in the development of new treatments for upper GI cancers. He is a member of the U.S. National Cancer Institute's pancreatic and gastrointestinal cancer task forces.

Angela Taber, MD, is a palliative care specialist and medical oncologist at the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam, and Newport hospitals. She has a special interest in issues involving patient quality of life, improving doctor-patient communication, and palliative care for patients with lung cancer. She is board certified in palliative care, and is an active participant in the Brown University Oncology Group, where she is involved in the development of clinical research protocols.

Taber earned her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and completed her residency and hematology-oncology fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and has been honored nationally for outstanding compassion and cancer care by the American Cancer Society. She is also the American Cancer Society’s designee to the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council for the state of Rhode Island.

Heinrich Elinzano, MD is an adult neurologist, with subspecialty training in neuro-oncology and spinal cord injury medicine, and is also an assistant professor of neurology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is experienced in the management of tumors of the central nervous system and has a particular interest in conducting clinical trials for the treatment of primary brain tumors and the neurological complications of systemic cancer.

Elinzano completed his neurology residency at St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center of New York, his spinal cord injury medicine fellowship training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and his neuro-oncology fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and The Neuro-Oncology Branch of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke. Prior to his current position at Rhode Island Hospital, he was an adult neuro-oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center.

Alexander Mohler, MD, MS is a neurologist and neuro-oncologist with the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam, and Newport hospitals, and an assistant professor of neurology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Mohler received his medical degree at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, and a master of science in physiology and biophysics from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He completed his neurology residency and a neuro-oncology fellowship at University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Society for Neuro-Oncology

Timothy J. Kinsella, MD, is an internationally recognized radiation oncologist and a research scholar professor of radiation oncology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Kinsella received his undergraduate degree from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY; a master’s degree with honors from Brown University; and both his master of science in radiation biology and his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, NY. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic, fellowship training in medical oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, and his residency training in radiation oncology at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. He was a fellow of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. Kinsella has been editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Radiation Oncology and editorial board member of eight other journals. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and radiation oncology. His areas of clinical expertise include the treatment of bone and soft tissue sarcomas, brain tumors, lymphomas, gastrointestinal cancers and pediatric cancers. He has laboratory expertise in the development of intraoperative radiotherapy, radiation sensitizing drugs and small molecules that modify DNA repair processing of radiation damage.