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Meet Our Scientific Advisory Board

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members are experts in the field of pediatric cancer research who volunteer their time to review and score grant applications.
Gregory Friedman, MD, Chair
Professor of Pediatrics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kevin Bielamowicz, MD
Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSC
Program Director and Clinical Director (ELG)-Solid Tumor
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Girish Dhall, MD
Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
Children’s of Alabama
James Geller, MD
Director – Liver, Kidney and Retinoblastoma Programs, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Tanja Gruber, MD
Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
Stanford Medicine
Meenakshi Hegde, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Cassie Kline, MD, MAS
Director, Neurooncology Clinical Research
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Tobey MacDonald, MD
Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Edward Prochownik, MD, PhD
Paul C. Gaffney Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh
Kathleen Sakamoto, PhD, MD
Professor, Pediatrics – Hematology & Oncology
Stanford Medicine
Sarah Tasian, MD
Chief of the Hematologic Malignancies
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
David Teachey, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Eric Thompson, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics
Washington University
Jeffrey Toretsky, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Hematology/Oncology
Georgetown University
Nicholas Vitanza, MD
Attending Pediatric Neuro-Oncologist
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Brenda Weigel, MD, MSc
Professor, Division Director, Lehman Family Chair in Pediatrics
University of Minnesota
Peter Zage, MD, PhD
Associate Professor-in-Residence
University of California San Diego

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