Fellow Physician
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Leah Kathryn Winer was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where she received her B.A. at Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, majoring in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology. After graduating from college, she worked for two years as a research technician in the Christopher Wells Hobler Laboratory for ALS Research at Washington University School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Timothy Miller, MD PhD. She received her MD from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 2015 before starting general surgery residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. During residency, she spent two years doing basic science research on sepsis and chronic critical illness with Dr. Charles Caldwell PhD and Dr. Vanessa Nomellini, MD PhD. During her final year of residency, she served as the Bower Administrative Chief Resident. She graduated from general surgery residency in June 2022 before moving back to Philadelphia to start her Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Fox Chase Cancer Center in August 2022.
