Post-Graduate Training:

• Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut. Fellow in Oncology/Hematology, 7/00 - 6/03.

• Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Intern and Resident, 7/97 - 6/00.

• Columbia University Chemistry Department, New York. Postdoctoral Fellow, 5/91 - 8/93.

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Education:

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. M.D., 8/93 - 5/97.

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Ph.D., Molecular Pharmacology 8/84 - 5/91.

• University of Tampa, Florida. B.Sc., 8/80 - 5/84.

 

Experience:

• Medical Director, Regional Medical Oncology Center, Wilson, NC.  08/12 – present.

• Attending Physician, Southeastern Medical Oncology Center, Wilson NC. 07/03 - 08/12.

• Attending Physician, Internal Medicine, West Haven Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Connecticut 1/01 - 3/03.

• Medical Director, Community Home Care and Hospice, Wilson, NC. 2012 – present.

• Medical Director, Wilson Medical Center Hospice, Wilson, NC. 2004 – 2011.

 

Clinical Trial Experience:

• Sargon Consortium- 2016-present- Pharmaceutical Industry Trials

• Southeastern Medical Oncology Center, Phase II – IV Trials including but not limited to NSABP, CALGB, ECOG as a Principle Investigator and Sub-Investigator for multiple partners, 2003 – 2012.

• Duke Cancer Network- 2020-present.

 

Professional Offices:     

• President, North Carolina Oncology Association, 2018 - 2020

• Board of Trustees, Healthcare Foundation of Wilson, 2014 - 2018.

• President of Medical Staff, Wilson Medical Center, 2013 - 2014.

• Board of Trustees, Wilson Medical Center, 2013 - 2014.

• Medical Executive Committee, Wilson Medical Center, 2009 - present. 

• President, Wilson County Medical Society, 2006.

• Various Officer Positions, Wilson County Medical Society, 1/04-12/07.

 

Board Certification: Board Certified, Medical Oncology (2003, 2013). Board Eligible, Hematology and Internal Medicine.

 

Professional Societies: American Society of Clinical Oncology. North Carolina Medical Society, North Carolina Oncology Association

 

Honors:

• NCI medical student fellowship (1994).

• Sigma Xi.

• Outstanding College Students of America.

• NIH graduate student fellowship (1984 -1991).

• Synaptic post-doctoral fellowship (1991 - 1993);

 

Publications:

1. Lilenbaum R, Wang X, Gu L, Kirshner J, Lerro K, Vokes E. Randomized phase II trial of docetaxel plus cetuximab or docetaxel plus bortezomib in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer and a performance status of 2: CALGB 30402. J Clinical Oncology 2009; 27: 4487-4491.

2. Lerro KA, Medoff E, Wu Y, Seropian SE, Snyder E, Krause D, and Cooper DL. A simplified approach to stem cell mobilization in multiple myeloma patients not previously treated with alkylating agents. Bone Marrow Transplant 2003; 32: 1113-1117.

3. Lerro KA and Lacy J. Case report: A patient with primary CNS lymphoma treated with temozolomide to complete response. J Neuro-onc 2002; 59: 165-168.

4. Ozuah PO, Burton W, Lerro KA, Rosenstock J, and Mulvihill M. Assessing the validity of tuberculin skin test readings by trained professionals and patients. Chest 1999; 116: 104-106.

5. Lerro KA. Are antihistamines beneficial in treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? Einstein Quart J Biol Med 1996; 13: 98-101.

6. Frishman WH, Weiser S, Lerro KA, Retter A, Fadal A, and Hussain J. Innovative drug targets for treating cardiovascular disease: adhesion molecules, cytokines, neuropeptide Y, and bradykinin, in “Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics” (Frishman WH and Sonnenblick EH, eds) McGraw-Hill, New York 1996: 837-880.

7. Rao S, Lerro KA, Horwitz SB, Ojima I, Duclos O, Dorman G, Simonot B, and Prestwich GD. A new paclitaxel photoaffinity analog with a 3-(4-benzoylphenyl)propanoyl probe for characterization of drug-binding sites on tubulin and P-glycoprotein. J Med Chem 1995; 38: 3891-94.

8. Nakanishi K, Zhang H, Lerro KA, Takekuma S, Yamamoto T, Hung-Lien T, Sastry L, Baek KJ, Moquin-Pattey C, Boehm MF, Derguini F, and Gawinowicz MA. Photoaffinity labeling of rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. Biophys Chem 1995; 56: 13-22.

9. Zhang H, Lerro KA, Yamamoto J, Hung-Lien T, Sastry MA, and Nakanishi K. The location of the chromophore in rhodopsin: a photoaffinity study. J Am Chem Soc USA 1994; 116: 10165-73.

10. Zhang H, Lerro KA, Takekuma S, Baek KJ, Moquin-Pattey C, Boehm M, Nakanishi K. Orientation of the retinal 9-methyl group in bacteriorhodopsin, as studied by photoaffinity labeling. J Am Chem Soc USA 1994; 116: 6823-6831.

11. Nakanishi K, Choi SK, Hwang D, Lerro KA, Orlando M, Kalivretenos AG, Eldefrawi A, Eldefrawi M, and Usherwood PNR. Bioorganic studies of transmitter receptors with philanthotoxin analogs. Pure & Appl Chem 1994; 66: 671-78.

12. Lerro KA, Orlando R, Zhang H, Usherwood PNR, and Nakanishi K. Separation of sticky peptides from membrane proteins by high-performance-liquid-chromatography in a normal-phase system. Anal Biochem 1993; 215: 38-44.

13. Moquin-Pattey C, Lerro KA, Nakanishi K, Orlando R, and Kenney PTM. Sequencing membrane proteins by tandem mass-spectrometry. Org Mass Spectrom 1993; 28: 1395-1402.

14.  Touhara K, Lerro KA, Bonning BC, Hammock BC and Prestwich GD. Ligand binding by a recombinant insect juvenile hormone binding protein. Biochemistry 1993; 32: 2068-75.

15. Prestwich GD, Touhara K, Atkinson JK, Lerro KA, Latli B, Okot-Dotber M, and Ujvary I. Hot juvenile hormone: using radioligands and photoaffinity labels to decipher the molecular action of juvenile hormone, in “Insect Juvenile Hormone Research, Fundamental and Applied Approaches: Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Mode of Action” (Mauchamp B, Couillaud F, and Baehr JC, eds) INRA, Paris 1992: 248-256.

16. Lerro KA and Prestwich GD. Cloning and sequencing of a cDNA for the hemolymph juvenile hormone binding protein of larval Manduca Sexta. J Biol Chem 1990; 265: 19800-06.

17. Grant AJ, Lerro KA, and Wu CW. Cell-associated elastase activities of rat mammary tumor cells. Biochem Internatl 1990; 22: 1077-84.

18. Mohamed MA, Lerro KA, and Prestwich GD. Polyacrylamide gel miniaturization improves protein visualization and autoradiographic detection. Anal Biochem 1989; 177: 287-90.