Natl. Med. Advisory Board

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	Dr. Stuart E. Siegel, Los Angeles, California - Dr. Siegel is the Chairman of Children's Cancer Research Fund's National Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Siegel received both his B.A. and M.D. from Boston University. He was a resident in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and went on to serve as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at USC School of Medicine. Since 1976, he has served as Head of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Coordinator for Pediatric Oncology at USC School of Medicine. He is also Professor of Pediatrics at USC School of Medicine, Head of the Division of Oncology at Pediatric Pavilion, LAC/USC Medical Center, Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine, and Director of Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
	Dr. Garrett M. Brodeur, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Dr. Brodeur received his B.A. from St. Louis University and his M.D. from Washington University, St. Louis. He completed his residency at St. Louis Childrens Hospital and was a fellow in Hematology-Oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, where he also was a Research Associate. He did his post-doctoral fellowship in molecular genetics at Washington University, St. Louis and subsequently served there as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics. He is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Chief of the Division of Oncology at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Since 1994, he has served as the Audrey E. Evans Endowed Chair. Dr. Peter F. Coccia, Omaha, Nebraska - Dr. Coccia received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.D. from Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. He was a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and at Case Western Reserve University. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and BMT at University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. John M. Falletta, Durham, North Carolina - Professor of Pediatrics, Chairman of Institutional Review, and Board for Clinical Investigation at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Donald Pinkel, San Luis Obispo, California - Dr. Pinkel was born, raised and educated in Buffalo, New York where he graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency at Children's Hospital. After a fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, he became the first Chief of Pediatrics at Roswell Park Cancer Center. Subsequently, he served as the first Director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, Pediatrician-in-chief at Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Chief of Pediatrics at the City of Hope Medical Center in California, and Pediatrician-in-Chief at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia. In 1985, he returned to research as Director of the Pediatric Leukemia Research Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. He became Professor Emeritus there in 1994. Dr. Pinkel is currently an adjunct professor at California Polytechnic State University. Dr. David G. Poplack, Houston, Texas - Dr. Poplack is the Director of Texas Children's Cancer Center and Professor of Pediatric Oncology for the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Aaron R. Rausen, New York, New York - Professor of Pediatrics and Department of Pediatrics at New York University Medical Center. Dr. Kathleen Sakamoto, Los Angeles, California - Dr. Sakamoto grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts , Cum Laude with a B.A. in Biology. She went to medical school at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and did her pediatric residency and Hematology/Oncology fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles . During her research fellowship, Dr. Sakamoto joined the laboratory of Dr. Judith Gasson at UCLA, where she studied the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemias. She then joined the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. After her sabbatical, Dr. Sakamoto decided to pursue her Ph.D. degree at the California Institute of Technology, where she developed a new approach to cancer therapy that targets the cell’s own destruction machinery. Dr. Sakamoto is currently Professor and Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vice-Chair of Translational Research at the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, and Program Director of the Fellowship Program. Dr. Stephen E. Sallan, Boston, Massachusetts - Dr. Sallan received his B.A. and M.D. from Wayne State University where he went on to complete his residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He was a fellow in medicine and psychiatry at Childrens Hospital, Boston, as well as a fellow in pediatric hematology-oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He did a research fellowship in medicine at Peter Bent Bringham Hospital. He is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Firm Chief of Oncology at Childrens Hospital, Boston, and Clinical Director of Oncology at Dana Faber Cancer Institute, Boston. In 1987 he was awarded the James Carreras Prize for International Pediatrician of the Year. Dr. Kevin Shannon, San Francisco, California - Dr. Shannon is an Auerback Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology and the Director of the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of California San Francisco.
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