accepting new patients

Swapna Thota, MD

Institution
University of Tennessee
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
As a physician caring for patients with acute leukemias and related disorders, I have a sustained focus on translational research in hematologic malignancies. Genomic sequencing technology revolutionized our understanding of cancer biology. My research focuses on exploring the dynamic changes of tumor immune microenvironment with clonal evolution of myeloid malignancies. Targeting inflammaging of bone marrow to impede clonal evolution is my ultimate professional goal and there by improve the survival rate for leukemia patients. My long-term goal is to develop potentially less toxic targeted

Dr. Elizabeth Bowhay-Carnes

Institution
UT Health - San Antonio
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Dr. Elizabeth Bowhay-Carnes is a Texas native and passionate about serving the people of her home community. She earned her bachelors of science degree in biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin, followed by work with the MD Anderson Cancer Center Umbilical Cord Blood Bank in Houston. She received her medical doctorate from UT Health San Antonio and completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at the UT Health Science Center. She joined UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2016 as Director of the Adult Non-Malignant

Dr. Kate Eshleman

Institution
Cleveland Clinic Center for Pediatric Behavioral Health
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Pediatric
About
Kate E. Eshleman, Psy.D., completed her graduate training at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH focusing on clinical psychology. After completing an internship in pediatric behavioral medicine at University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL, she completed a fellowship in pediatric psychology at Cleveland Clinic before joining the staff in 2009. Dr. Eshleman's primary specialty is working with children, adolescents, and families coping with significant physical disease (i.e., diabetes, cancer, organ failure/ transplant). Treatment focuses on working with children and families to

Donna Hammond, PhD

Institution
University of Iowa Health Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
About
Donna Hammond holds a BS in Biochemical Pharmacology, State University of New York at Buffalo, PhD in Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology of Pain, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Hammond is Professor of Anesthesia Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesia Dr. Hammond's research focuses on finding pathways to reduce or eliminate peripheral neuropathy for patients undergoing chemotherapy including bone marrow failure diseases.

Anna Halpern, MD

Institution
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia (CMML)
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
I am both a hematologist-oncologist and a clinical researcher. Along with caring for you, I conduct research focused on hematologic (blood-based) malignancies — specifically, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and myelofibrosis. My overarching research aim is to help adults with these diseases have better outcomes by developing and testing evidence-based therapies that are tailored to your unique needs as a patient. I design and conduct clinical trials testing novel care concepts for people with AML and MDS, and I use

Gerard Socie, MD

Institution
Hospital St. Louis
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Aplastic Anemia
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Gerard Socié, MD, PhD, is the head of the hematology department at Hospital Saint-Louis, APHP. Gerard Socié has a research appointment at the Institut Pasteur -APHP with Dr. Lars Rogge. His main fields of expertise are transplantation (GvHD), aplastic anemia, PNH and Fanconi Anemia. Dr. Socié discusses the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of PNH in this pre-recorded session.

Kanwaldeep Mallhi, MD

Institution
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia (CMML)
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Pediatric
About
Dr. Kanwaldeep Mallhi is a pediatric oncologist and hematologist who specializes in nonmalignant blood disorders in children. These disorders include immunodeficiencies, bone marrow failure and metabolic errors. She is an expert in pediatric blood stem cell transplants, and her research focuses on alternative donor sources and the development of reduced-intensity conditioning regimens, which use radiation, chemotherapy or other procedures to remove diseased or failing cells prior to transplant.

Sioban Keel, MD

Institution
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Aplastic Anemia
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Sioban Keel, M.D., is a board certified hematologist at SCCA and a UW associate professor of Hematology and Medicine. Dr. Keel believes that excellent medical care requires a combination of up-to-date knowledge and compassionate, individualized patient care. She recognizes that excellent care requires physicians who communicate effectively with and educate each patient so that they understand their condition and can be a partner in determining the best treatment plan. Dr. Keel earned her M.D. at the University of Minnesota. Her clinical and research interests include benign red blood cell

Nathan Punwani, MD, MPH

Institution
Cedars-Sinai
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
About
Dr. Punwani is a hematologist/oncologist with the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai. He earned his BA from Lehigh University, an MPH in Health Care Management & Policy from Harvard School of Public Health and his MD from Drexel University College of Medicine. He did his Internal Medicine Residency at George Washington Unviersity Hospital and his Fellowships in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Punwani is board certified in Internal Medicine and is both researcher and clinician with more

Ivana Gojo, MD

Institution
Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
About
Dr. Ivana Gojo is a Hematologist/Oncologist in Baltimore. Her clinical focus is on diagnosis and management of patients with acute leukemias (AML, ALL) and other myeloid malignancies (MDS, MPNs, CML), with emphasis on the development of novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases. She is nationally and internationally recognized expert in clinical translation of novel therapeutics for acute leukemias and principal investigator on multiple multi-center investigator-initiated studies. Dr. Gojo joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012 as the Co-Director of Leukemia Drug Development Program

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