Faculty Miller School of Medicine

Damian Green, M.D.

Professor, Pending Rank, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Green is the Ron and Nedra Kalish Family Endowed Chair in Stem Cell Transplantation, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at the University of Miami. He also serves as the Assistant Director of Translational Research for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Green has over 20 years of experience treating patients...
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Erden Atilla, M.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Erden Atilla is a physician-scientist and Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his medical degree and completed specialty training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Hematology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the University of Ankara School of Medicine...
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Pinar Ataca Atilla, M.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Pinar Ataca Atilla joined the University of Miami’s Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy in 2024 as a Research Assistant Professor. She is a physician-scientist specializing in hematology, bone marrow transplantation, and cellular immunotherapy. Following her fellowship in hematology, she trained at the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Cell and Gene...
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Amer Beitinjaneh, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Beitinjaneh is a nationally recognized clinical research investigator with over a decade of experience in managing aggressive hematologic malignancies, particularly through cellular therapy and stem cell transplantation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has led numerous novel interventional clinical trials, funded by both industry and federal...
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Cara L. Benjamin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Benjamin is the Director of the Cellular Therapy Laboratory, which provides preparation of stem cells for use in transplantation and cellular therapy as well as novel cellular therapy for both malignant and non-malignant conditions. Dr. Benjamin has a passion for facilitating innovative cellular therapies and has a research interest in the role of the thymus in the...
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Mark S. Goodman, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Mark Goodman is an Associate Professor of Medicine, one of the founding members of UM Stem Cell Transplant Team. In the early years of the program, during a period of transition, he was acting Medical Director. His interests are focused on transplant and cellular therapy including Car T cells for multiple myeloma and lymphoma.
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Noa G. Holtzman, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Holtzman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, who joined the University of Miami Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy in 2023. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving post-transplant outcomes for patients with acute leukemia and myeloid neoplasms, including development of novel immunomodulatory approaches for relapse prevention and treatment...
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Antonio M. Jimenez Jimenez, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Jimenez Jimenez, who joined the Division of Transplantation and Cell Therapy in 2016, leads Sylvester’s Mismatched Allogeneic Transplant Program. His clinical and research work is dedicated to improving access to Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) for ethnically diverse patients who lack suitable donors. A national leader in mismatched HCT, Dr. Jimenez chairs...
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Lazaros Lekakis, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Lekakis is a Professor of Medicine who joined the University of Miami in 2010 and became an attending physician for Hemotology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation in 2012. He has since started the CAR-T trials, performed the first CAR-T for solid tumors, and transplanted adult sickle cell disease patients. Dr. Lekakis is a member of the USA CAR-T Consortium...
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Denise L. Pereira, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
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Biography: Dr. Pereira is an Associate Professor of Medicine who joined the University of Miami in 2003 and became the Director for Clinical Operations for the Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program in 2016. She is the immediate past president of the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Medical Staff and her clinical and research interests are centered on stem cell transplant and...
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Jay Spiegel, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Spiegel is an Assistant Professor who joined the University of Miami in 2021 with a clinical focus on cellular therapy for hematologic malignancies. He is a translational researcher working to improve CAR-T cell outcomes for B cell malignancies and has led first in human trials of novel CAR-T therapies as well as investigator-initiated trials testing CAR-T in combination...
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Trent Wang, D.O., MPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Trent Wang is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine within the Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. Since joining Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, his clinical focus has been treating patients with hematologic cancers who require allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and other cellular therapies.
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Eric D. Wieder, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Biography: Dr. Wieder joined the University of Miami in 2008 and currently serves as director of the Flow Cytometry Shared Resource at the Cancer Center. He is an expert in the assessment of cells and tissues using fluorescence-based flow cytometry and mass cytometry and has a research interest in immune recovery and graft-versus-host-disease in the post-transplant setting.
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