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 your continued support in 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
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 - 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 - Marco Cipolli
Centro Fibrosi Cistica
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata
Piazzale Stefani 1, 37126
Verona, ITALY
Marco.cipolli@ospedaleuniverona.it - 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 - Peter Kannu, MB,ChB (Otago), PhD, DCH, FRACP
Staff Physician, Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics
Team Investigator, Research Institute
The Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics
The University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5G 1X8
Canada
Peter.kannu@sickkids.ca - Johnson M Liu, MD FACP
Les Nelkin Professor of Pediatric Oncology at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Hofstra North Shore – LIJ School of Medicine
Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY
269-01 76th, room 255
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
and
Attending Physician
Monter Cancer Center
450 Lakeville Road
Lake Success, NY 11042
Jliu3@NSHS.edu - 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
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Avenue N, D2-100
Seattle, WA 98109
ashimamu@fhcrc.org - Sioban Keel, MD
University of Washington
1705 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA
206-685-2196
Sioban@u.washington.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 - Garry Tobin, MD
Clinical Director
Endocronology
Washington University in St. Louis
4921 Parkview Place Suite B13
St. Louis, Mo 63110
314-747-7300 - Charles McCaslin, MD
Director CF Clinic
Nemours Children’s Hospital
807 Children’s Way
Jacksonville, Fl 32207
904-697-3676