Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

Dr. Leslie Ellis is a hematologist-oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Dr. Ellis earned her BS and MD degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an active researcher and treats patients across the hematologic malignancy spectrum, focusing primarily on leukemias as well as bone marrow failure diseases.

Sarah Bannon is a Senior Genetic Counselor in the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical responsibilities include providing risk assessment and genetic counseling services to individuals at risk for an inherited predisposition to hematologic malignancies (leukemia). She is the Genetic Counselor for the Hereditary Hematologic Malignancies Clinic (HHMC).

Mary K. Hughes, MS, RN, CNS, CT, is a Outpatient, Clinical Nurse Specialist with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Psychiatry Department where she works with a team of mental health professionals to support patients, families and caregivers from diagnosis to treatment to survivorship.

Dr. Brander focus on treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The way the CLL affects patients differs because leukemia can be different in different patients, and how it makes them feel can be very different. And, importantly, their goals of treatment are going to be very different. Dr. Brander would like patients to know that she understands that this is a new and different situation for them, and that this is as a partnership for the long haul. She also want them to know that she has compassion for what they are going through. Even though Dr. Brander sees a lot of CLL patients, she is