Mitchell S. Cairo, MD Chair
Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation
Director, Children and Adolescent Cancer and Blood Diseases Center
Director, WMC Cancer Center
Medical and Scientific Director, WMC Cellular and Tissue Engineering Laboratory
Medical Director, WMC Hematotherapy Program
Vice Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology
& Immunology and Cell Biology & Anatomy,
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
Westchester Medical Center (WMC)
New York Medical College
USA
Sarah Alexander, MD
Professor of Pediatric, University of Toronto
Clinical Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children
Canada
Carl Allen, MD
Vice Chair for Research, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Milton and Allene Nerkin Chair, Pediatric Oncology
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Co-Director, TXCH Histiocytosis and Lymphoma Programs
Texas Children’s Cancer Center
USA
Andishe Attarbaschi, MD
Professor in Pediatrics/Pediatric Oncology
Medical Co-Director
St. Anna Children’s Hospital
Austria
Anthony Audino, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Leukemia and Lymphoma Program
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
The Ohio State University
USA
Matthew Barth, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
UBMD Pediatrics
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
USA
Amos Burke, MD
Head of Department and Director
Professor of Paediatric Oncology
Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU)
School of Medical Sciences
College of Medicine and Health
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
Birgit Burkhardt, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Head of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Head of Lymphoma Program
University Hospital Muenster
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Germany
Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Immune Dysregulation/Immunohematology and Immune Defects Transplant Programs
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Emory University School of Medicine
USA
Roberto Chiarle, MD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Department of Pathology
Boston Children’s Hospital
USA
Christine Damm-Welk, PhD
Research Fellow, Head of NHL-BFM Laboratory
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Germany
Matthew Ehrhardt, MD
Assistant Member, Department of Oncology
Division of Cancer Survivorship
Departments of Oncology; Epidemiology & Cancer Control
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
USA
Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Member in the Human Oncology Pathogenesis Program (HOPP)
James Ewing Alumni Chair of Pathology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA
Ronit Elhasid, MD
Director, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Department
Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Israel
Nader El-Mallawany, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Section of Hematology/Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
USA
Allyson Flower, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology
Co-director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program
Associate Director, Histiocytic Disorders
Associate Director, Cellular and Tissue Engineering Laboratory
Associate Director, Hematological Malignancy Program
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
New York Medical College
USA
Stanton Goldman, MD
Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation
Chief Medical Officer for Medical City Children’s Hospital
North Texas Hospital for Children at Medical City Dallas
USA
Robert Hayashi, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine
USA
Jessica Hochberg, MD
Associate Professor Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation
Director Hematologic Malignancy Program
Director of the Wellness & Survivorship Program
Associate Director of the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship
Children and Adolescent Cancer and Blood Diseases Center
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
New York Medical College
USA
Steven Horowitz, MD
Associate Attending Physician, Department of Medicine
Lymphoma Specialist and Cellular Therapist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA
Wolfram Klapper, MD
Professor, University of Kiel
Head of the Hematopathology Section in the Departmemt of Pathology,
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel & University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel
Full Professor for Hematopathology Section in the Departmemt of Pathology,
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Germany
Vasiliki Leventaki, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Hematopathology
Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
USA
Megan Lim, MD, PhD
Director,Lymphoma Translational Research Program and Director of the Biofluid Biobank
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA
Michael Link, MD
The Lydia J. Lee Professor of Pediatric Cancer, Stanford University School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics (with tenure), Stanford University
Staff Hematologist/Oncologist, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
USA
Eric Lowe, MD
Chair, Pediatrics, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Chief Clinical Academic Officer, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
Division Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
USA
Shannon Maude, MD
Cancer Immunotherapy Program
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
USA
Rodney Miles, MD, PhD
Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Pathology
University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories
USA
Veronique Minard-Colin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics in the Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology Department
Head of Pediatric/AYA Committee
Head of Pediatric/AYA Tumor Board
Institut Gustave Roussy
Vice-President of the French Society of Childhood Cancers (SFCE)
France
Lara Mussolin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University Hospital of Padova
Italy
Marta Pillon, MD
1st Level Medical Manager, Pediatrics
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
University-Hospital of Padua
National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor in Italian Universities
University-Hospital of Padua
Italy
Alfred Reiter, MD
Professor Emeritus
University of Giessen
Germany
Chalotte Rigaud, MD, PhD
Child and Adolescent Cancer Department
Head of the La Mer Continuing Care Unit
Institut Gustave Roussy
France
Lisa Giulino-Roth, MD
Director of Pediatric Oncology
Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Lymphoma Program
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology & Medical Oncology
Weill Cornell Medicine
USA
Itziar Salaverria, PhD
Group Leader, Molecular Genetics of Pediatric Lymphoma Group
IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK)
Spain
Julia Salmeron-Villalobos, MD
Molecular Genetics of Pediatric Lymphomas group
FRCB-IDIBAPS, Hospital Clínic
Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK)
Spain
Barbara Savoldo, MD
Professor Department of Pediatrics, Hematology Oncology
Assistant Director of the UNC Lineberger Immunotherapy Program
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
USA
Reiner Siebert, MD
Full Professor (W3) & Chair of Human Genetics
Director, Institute of Human Genetics
Ulm University and Ulm Medical Center
Germany
Christian Steidl, MD
Executive Director, Research at British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
Research Director, Centre for Lymphoid Cancer
Head, Department of Lymphoid Cancer Research
Canada
Ritsuro Suzuki, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Hematology and Oncology
Shimane University Hospital
Japan
David Teachey, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Divisions of Hematology and Oncology
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
USA
Suzanne Turner, PhD
Professor, Childhood Cancer Biology
Co-Chair, Paediatric Programme Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre
Director, Teaching
Deputy Head, Department of Pathology
Division of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology
University of Cambridge
Affiliated Professor, Faculty Medicine,
Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic and Uganda Cancer Institute, Uganda
Co-Chair, Executive Committee Member Pediatric Cancer Program, CRUK Cambridge Cancer Center
UK
Birte Wistinghausen, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
The George Washington University
Attending physician, Member of the Leukemia/Lymphoma Team
Children’s National Medical Center
USA
Wilhelm Woessmann, MD
Deputy Head, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Germany
Ana Xavier, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Associate Scientist, Experimental Therapeutics Program
O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
USA
Yonghong Zhang, MD
Director, Pediatric Lymphoma Department
Vice President, Beijing Boren Hospital
Chairman, China-Net Childhood Lymphoma
China
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