Team

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.

Sara Kleinschmidt, MD, is an oncology primary care physician at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, where she provides care at the region’s first and only Oncology Primary Care Clinic. She is also the medical director of Palliative care at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.

Dr. Latif is actively involved in clinical research and scholarly activities in hematologic malignancies and GI oncology, having published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as review articles in prestigious journals such as Bone Marrow Transplantation, Critical Review in Hematology Oncology, and Experimental Hematology.

Dr. Latif currently serves as Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hematology Oncology and Director of Infusion Services, UCMC, is a practicing Hematologist and Oncologist with special interest in malignant hematology (lymphoproliferative disorders). Dr. Latif graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College, University of the Punjab in 1996 and completed his residency and fellowship training from Cleveland Clinic Florida and Cleveland Clinic foundation respectively. He’s been practicing for over 15 years and has trained and educated many oncologists in Cincinnati Area.

He has keen interest in improving efficiency and quality of health care with development of lean systems and has adopted several process improvement initiatives at University of Cincinnati since his arrival.

Meriden combines her master’s level education in mental and public health with her training in mind-body modalities, including mindfulness and positive psychology, to teach individuals and groups techniques for optimal mental wellbeing. Meriden has worked with a variety of populations such as professional athletic teams including both the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns, Fortune 500 Companies, C-suite leadership teams, human resource departments, veterans, mental health professionals, families, and beyond.