Team

Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH serves as the Senior Vice President of Research and Policy for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). As Senior Vice President for Research and Policy, Dr. Bazemore is responsible for managing all ABFM research functions and staff, development and implementation of an enterprise-wide strategy for research, co-directing the new ABFM Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care in Washington DC, coordinating and developing an existing and expanding ABFM leadership/scholarship portfolio that includes ABFM Visiting Scholars & Fellowship, Pisacano Scholars & Puffer Fellowship programs, developing national and international collaborative research partnerships, and continuing to grow his own research in measures that matter for primary care, workforce & training, and access to primary health care for vulnerable populations.

Dr. Bender is a Pediatric Oncologist on the Leukemia/Lymphoma Team and Associate Director of the Cardio-Oncology Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Dr. Bender completed his medical degree and Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at the University of Michigan, where he also served as Chief Resident and undertook a fellowship in medical education. He completed fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, during which he also earned a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research through the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Clinically, Dr. Bender’s focus is on caring for adolescents and young adults with hematologic malignancies, with a particular focus on Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. His research centers on cardiotoxicity associated with novel therapies in pediatric oncology, along with strategies to identify childhood cancer survivors at highest risk for late-onset cardiotoxicity.

Jonathan serves as co-chair of the ACTION Network Pediatric Cardio-Oncology Workgroup and as a member of the International Cardio-Oncology Society Pediatric Task Force. Within the Children’s Oncology Group, Jonathan is a member of the Hodgkin Lymphoma Steering Committee, the Myeloid Cardiotoxicity Committee, and the steering committee for LEAP, which is a pilot project focused on revolutionizing follow-up for survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.

Dr. Rynita Bohler is a family physician; her medical education was at Wayne State University before coming to Cincinnati for her Family Medicine Residency with the University of Cincinnati.  She was a trailblazer in her subsequent palliative care fellowship, training also in oncology primary care.  She currently splits her clinical activities between oncology primary care and palliative care. Hailed by her patients for her intelligence, listening skills, and insight, she provides the utmost in care to her patients.

Dr. Childress joined Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 2024 to serve as the Co-Director of the Comprehensive Fertility Care and Preservation Program and Fellowship Director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Fellowship Program. She completed her OB GYN residency training at Northwestern University in Chicago, followed by Fellowship in Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital. After fellowship she started the first Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Program at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in Atlanta, GA where she practice for 5 years, followed by a 2-year faculty position as Co-Director of the Fertility Program at Primary Children’s Hospital. She has been involved in various multidisciplinary clinics, including care for pelvic and anorectal malformations, bleeding disorders, bone marrow transplant survivorship and a DSD clinic throughout her career. She serves on committees and boards for various specialty societies and pediatric gynecology special interest groups, including the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL), Oncofertility Consortium, Pediatric Colorectal and Pelvic Learning Consortium and North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG). She currently serves as president of the NASPAG. She has academic and research interests in fertility preservation, complex differences of the reproductive tract, complex pelvic malformations, ovarian masses and minimally invasive surgery.

Sian Cotton, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, founding director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health and the Turner Farm Foundation Chair at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  A Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Division Director for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Cotton has an active research lab with ongoing clinical studies focusing primarily on mindfulness-based interventions and integrative medicine practice-based research. She is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine and Health, a group of over 85 leading academic health centers and served as 1 of 8 Congress Co-Presidents for the 2^nd World Congress on Integrative Medicine in Rome September 2023.  Dr. Cotton is often invited to speak with community organizations and businesses, healthcare audiences, and academics about mind-body medicine for stress reduction, and preventive and wellness-based approaches to healthcare.

Dr. Matthew Ehrhardt is an Associate Member in the Division of Cancer Survivorship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital specialized in the care of long-term childhood cancer survivors and children newly diagnosed with Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He is a Co-Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines for Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancers and a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Survivorship (ASCO) Guideline Advisory Group, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria Committee, and multiple COG, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), and International Guideline Harmonization Group (IGHG) guideline panels and initiatives. His research is focused on the long-term effects of childhood cancer therapy as well as surveillance guideline development, dissemination, and utilization.

Dr. Melissa Erickson is currently an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is the Medical Director and Founder of the Oncology Primary Care Clinic at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center and holds the Robert and Adele Schiff Family Clinical Endowed Chair for Cancer Survivorship. She provides primary care services for patients with cancer or a hereditary predisposition to cancer. Additionally, she sees adult survivors of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancers in the Cancer Survivorship Clinic at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

I have been in women’s health in multiple areas from labor and delivery, OB/GYN, GYN/ONC and currently URO/GYN for 26 years. I have been a CNP since 2010 and I care for women ages 12–105-year-old. My passion is education and I currently specialize in Sexual Health and menopause in tandem with URO/GYN. I have completed special training in pelvic pain and sexual health from ISSWSH and IPPA. My approach is bio/psycho/social and focus on pleasure context and not desire or climax as sexual health is complicated and all areas need to be addressed for success. Changes in our health, relationships and life experiences can create new contexts in our intimacy. I treat all women individually using multiple modalities including mindfulness, sensate focus, therapy, integrative medicine, hormone therapy and reminding women that we are not broken and to not compare ourselves to what we think others are doing. We all have our own story and it begins with loving ourselves.