Scientific Board
SDSF would like to introduce our Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. We welcome our new members and gratefully thank our senior members for their continued support of SDSF and our families.
Johanna Rommens, PhD
SDSF Chair
Program in Genetics & Genome Biology
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning, Room 14-9712
The Hospital for Sick Children
686 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
M5G 0A4
Canada
jrommens@sickkids.ca
Blanche Alter, MD, MPH, FAAP
Emeritus Advisory Board Member
Clinical Genetics Branch
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute
9609 Medical Center Drive
Room 6E452, MSC9772
Rockville, MD 20850
alterb@mail.nih.gov
Alison Bertuch, MD, PhD
Cancer and Hematology Center Texas Children’s Hospital 1102 Bates St Houston, TX 77030
832-824-4579
abertuch@texaschildrens.org
Lauri Burroughs, MD
Director, Pediatric Non-Malignant Transplant Program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center/ Seattle Children’s Hospital
1100 Fairview Avenue East, MS D5-280
Seattle, WA 98109
lburroug@fhcrc.org
Nancy Cincotta, MSW, MPhil
Chief Psychosocial Officer – Richi Childhood Cancer Foundation, Psychosocial Consultant, Narrative Medicine Practitioner
Greater New York City Area
Marco Cipolli
Centro Fibrosi Cistica
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata
Piazzale Stefani 1, 37126
Verona, ITALY
Marco.cipolli@ospedaleuniverona.it
Seth Corey, MD, MPH
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
216-444-5517
Tarek Elghetany, MD
Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital
6621 Fannin Street, WB1100
Houston, TX 77030
txelghet@texaschildrens.org
elghetan@bcm.edu
Amit Grover, MD
Director, Pancreatic Disorders Program
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Boston Children’s Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue, Enders, 6th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
617-355-6172
Sioban Keel, MD
University of Washington
1705 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA
206-685-2196
Sioban@u.washington.edu
Daniel H. Leung, MD,FAASSL, FAAP
Director, Pediatric Hepatology & Liver Transplant Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
281-469-4688
Johnson M Liu, MD FACP
Section Head of Hematology
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Tisch Cancer Institute
17 E 102nd Street, Room D4-112
New York, NY 10029
212-241-4665
Johnson.liu@mssm.edu
Charles McCaslin, MD
Director of CF Clinic
Nemours Children’s Hospital
807 Children’s Way
Jacksonville, Fl 32207
904-697-3676
Kasiani Myers, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency
The Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
Kasiani.myers@cchmc.org
Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD
Bone Marrow Failure Treatment Program
450 Brookline Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
617-919-6109
akiko.shimamura@childrens.harvard.edu
Garry Tobin, MD
Clinical Director
Endocrinology
Washington University in St. Louis
4921 Parkview Place Suite B13
St. Louis, Mo 63110
314-747-7300
Professor Alan Warren
Cambridge Institute of Medical Research University of Cambridge Cambridge Biomedical Campus CIMR (The Keith Peters Building),
Hills Road, Cambridge, England
ajw1000@cam.ac.uk