Undergraduate School
University of Miami
Medical School
Tufts University School of Medicine
Interests & Career Goals
Integrated medicine/psychiatry primary care, consultation-liaison psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, medical education
Favorite Pastimes
Cooking, traveling, listening to music, watching mystery and crime shows, and hosting family and friends
Strengths of the Program
The breadth of integrated care opportunities, mentorship from supportive and renowned faculty, working with a diverse patient population, and being part of the “Duke family”
Areas of Prior Research
Patient-reported quality of life measurements, modulating the epigenome via micronutrients/cancer epigenetics, cutaneous adverse events associated with immunotherapy
Publications/Abstracts
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Leesang T, Yap TS, Brabson JP, Klimas A, Ahearn EL, Barbieri DA, Lam MQ, Lyon PD, Figueroa MKE, Beckedorff F, Cimmino L. Retinoic Acid and Ascorbate Remodel the Epigenome of Leukemia Cells to Improve Therapeutic Efficacy By Enhancing TET Activity. Blood 2023; 142 (Supplement 1): 5706.
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Kasturi S, Ahearn EL, Batterman A, Horton R, Kleinman J, Rose-Smith J, LeClair AM, Mandl LA. Measuring What Matters: A Qualitative Study of the Relevance and Clinical Utility of PROMIS Surveys in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. J Rheumatol. 2023 Jul 1:jrheum.2023-0184.
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Ahearn EL, Belzer A, Cohen SR, Leventhal JS, Deverapalli SC. Psoriasiform and lichenoid eruptions as a potential harbinger of bullous dermatoses in the setting of immune checkpoint inhibitors: a case series. Int J Dermatol. 2022 Oct 22.
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Ahearn EL, Tzur L, Mahalingam M, Konnikov N. Successful Treatment of Cutaneous Collagenous Vasculopathy with Pulsed Dye Laser: A Case Report. SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine 2022;6(5):424–428.
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Lee Chong T, Ahearn EL, Cimmino L. Reprogramming the Epigenome With Vitamin C. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2019 Jul 16;7:128.