International Scientific Committee & Faculty:

International Scientific Committee & Faculty

Mitchell S. Cairo, MD Chair

Sarah Alexander, MD

Carl Allen, MD, PhD

Shifra Ash, MD, BSc

Andishe Attarbaschi, MD

Anthony Audino, MD

Matthew Barth, MD

Auke Beishuizen, MD, PhD

Catherine Bollard, MD

Laurence Brugieres, MD

Amos Burke, MD

Birgit Burkhardt, MD, PhD

Guillermo Chantada, MD, PhD

Christine Damm-Welk, PhD

Alan Davidson, MD

Robin Dulman, MD

Matthew Ehrhardt, MD

Ronit Elhasid, MD

Nader El-Mallawany, MD

Alina Fedorova, MD, PhD

Allyson Flower, MD

J. Kimble Frazer, MD, PhD

Paul Galardy, MD

Stanton Goldman, MD

Thomas Gross, MD, PhD

Ian Hann, MD

Paul Harker-Murray, MD, PhD

Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD

Jessica Hochberg, MD

Carl June, MD

Wolfram Klapper, MD

Ryoji Kobayashi, MD, PhD

Yuki Koga, MD, PhD

Tezer Kutluk, MD, PhD

Jennifer Levine, MD

Megan Lim, MD, PhD

Michael Link, MD

Jan Loeffen, MD, PhD

Federica Lovisa, PhD

Eric Lowe, MD

Britta Maecker-Kolhoff, MD

Christine Mauz-Körholz, MD

Karin Mellgren, MD

Ari Melnick, MD

Friederike Meyer-Wentrup, MD

Monika Metzger, MD, MSc

Rodney Miles, MD, PhD

Jordan Milner, MD

Veronique Minard-Colin, MD, PhD

Tetsuya Mori, MD, PhD

Lara Mussolin, PhD

Ilske Oschlies, MD

Catherine Patte, MD

Sherrie Perkins, MD, PhD

Rob Pieters, MD

Marta Pillon, MD

Leticia Quintanilla-Fend, MD

Vikki Rand, PhD

Lisa Giulino-Roth, MD

Itziar Salaverria, PhD

Jennifer Sanmann, PhD

Masashiro Sekimizu, MD, PhD

Reiner Siebert, MD

Owen Smith, MA, MB

Filippo Spreafico, MD

Louis Staudt, MD, PhD

Jaroslav Sterba, MD, PhD

Jan Styczynski, MD

Ritsuro Suzuki, MD, PhD

David Teachey, MD

Amanda Termuhlen, MD

Suzanne Turner, PhD

Anne Uyttebroeck, MD, PhD

Timur Valiev, MD, PhD

Birte Wistinghausen, MD

Wilhelm Woessmann, MD

Ana Xavier, MD

Yonghong Zhang, MD, PhD

Christian Michel Zwaan, MD, PhD

Alfred Reiter, MD, Chair Emeritus, Germany

Meet the Speakers

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
Associate 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
Staff Member, Hospital for Sick Children
Clinical Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children
Canada

Carl Allen, MD, PhD
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Co-Director, Histiocytosis and Lymphoma Programs
Director of Research, Global HOPE
Texas Children’s Cancer Center
USA

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
Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology UBMD Pediatrics
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
USA

Laurence Brugieres, MD
Consultant Physician
Department of Children and Adolescent Oncology
Pediatric, Gustave Roussy, Cancer Center
France

Amos Burke, MD
Consultant Pediatric Oncologist and Specialty Lead
Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care
Cambridge University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
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

Guillermo Chantada, MD, PhD
Associate Physician, Hemato-Oncology Service
Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Spain
Scientific Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Hospital Pereira Rossell-Fundacion, Uruguay
Principal Investigator, Institute for Research in Translational Medicine (IIMT), Argentina
President, SIOP

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
Division of Cancer Survivorship
Departments of Oncology; Epidemiology & Cancer Control
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
USA

Ronit Elhasid, MD
Director, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Department
Dana 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
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology/Oncology
Texas Children’s Hospital
USA

Paul Galardy, MD
Consultant/Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Chair, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Chair of Research, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Program Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship
Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mayo Clinic
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

Thomas Gross, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Inpatient Medical Director, Center of Cancer and Blood Disorders,
Children’s Hospital Colorado
USA

Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Residence, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
University of California San Francisco
Associate Director, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center Global Oncology Program
Director, Pediatric Immunotherapy Program UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Director, UCF School of Medicine Core Inquiry Curriculum
USA

Jessica Hochberg, MD
Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Director Hematologic Malignancy Program
Children and Adolescent Cancer and Blood Diseases Center
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
New York Medical College
USA

Carl June, MD
Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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

Tezer Kutluk, MD, PhD
UICC Past-president & Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Oncology
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine & Cancer Institute
Turkey

Jennifer Levine, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Weill Cornell Medicine
USA

Megan Lim, MD, PhD
Professor
Director, Division of Hematopathology
University of Pennsylvania,

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
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Vice-Chair, Executive Committee of Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Division Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
USA

Karin Mellgren, MD
Adj Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, 20%
Head of the Department of Oncology,
Senior consultant in Pediatric Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
The Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital/Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg
Sweden

Ari Melnick, MD
Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology
Chair, Hematologic Malignancies Program
Weill Cornell Medicine
USA

Rodney Miles, MD, PhD
Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Pathology
Section Chief, Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
USA

Veronique Minard-Colin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics in the Children and Adolescent Oncology Department
Institut Gustave Roussy
Vice-President of the French Society of Childhood Cancers (SFCE)
France

Lara Mussolin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Padova
Italy

Ilske Oschlies, MD
Senior physician/Consultant Histopathologist and Lecturer
Department of General Pathology and Department of Hematopathology, and
Lymph Node Registry
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Germany

Catherine Patte, MD
Emeritis Gustave Roussy Pediatric Department
Active member of GFAOP (Franco-African Pediatric Oncology Group)
France

Sherrie Perkins, MD, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Pathology,
University of Utah Health Sciences Center
USA

Marta Pillon, MD
1st Level Medical Manager, Pediatrics
National coordinator of the Associazione Italiana Emato-Oncologia Pediatrica (AIEOP) non Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) working group
Italian representative for the International Global-B NHL project
National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor in Italian Universities
University-Hospital of Padua
Italy

Vikki Rand, PhD
Professor of Biosciences
Chair of the Northern Bio-Accelerator Partnership Research Steering Group
UniAlliance Doctoral Training Alliance Deputy Director in Applied Bioscience for Health
Director of the Centre for Biodiscovery, School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University
Research Director, National Horizons Centre, Darlington, Teesside University
United Kingdom

Lisa Giulino-Roth, MD
Director of Pediatric Oncology
Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
USA

Itziar Salaverria, PhD
Associate Professor of Cellular Biology at the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology
Associate lecturer of Cell Biology
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Spain

Masashiro Sekimizu, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Research Promotion, Department of Clinical Research Management
National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center,
Japan

Reiner Siebert, MD
Full Professor (W3) & Chair of Human Genetics
Director, Institute of Human Genetics
Ulm University and Ulm Medical Center
Germany

Owen Smith, MA, MB
NCCP National Clinical Lead for Children, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers
Professor of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University College Dublin
Academic Lead, Children’s Health Ireland
Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Children’s Health Ireland
Ireland

Louis Staudt, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Cancer Genomics
Chief, Lymphoid Malignancies Branch
National Cancer Institute
USA

Ritsuro Suzuki, MD, PhD
Professor of Hematology and Oncology
Shimane University Hospital
Japan

David Teachey, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Immune Dysregulation Frontier Program
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
USA

Suzanne Turner, PhD
Professor University of Cambridge
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
Associate Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics
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