Medical Advisory Board

Richard Champlin, M.D.

Chairman, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Professor of Medicine, Robert C. Hickey Chair of Clinical Cancer Care, Division of Medicine, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Co-editor of a comprehensive textbook on transplantation:
Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, Third edition. Atkinson K, Champlin R, Ritz J, Fibbe WE, Ljungman P, Brenner MK, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004, 1968 pp.

Stephen Forman, M.D.

Chair, Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California
Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Endowed Chair
Co-leader, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Clinical Director, Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology
Staff Physician, Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research
Visiting Associate, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Co-edited Thomas' Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, 3rd edition. Blume KG, Forman SJ, Appelbaum FR, editors. Blackwell Publishing, Inc. Williston, VT, 2004,1563 pp.

Michael Graham, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology Oncologist, University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ

Jill Hows, M.D.

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Steven Kleinman, M.D.

Clinical Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Victoria, BC, Canada,
Editorial Board, Transfusion, Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
Transfusion Medicine Consultant to National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study.
Consultant to blood collection agencies, hospitals, government and industry.

Mary Laughlin, M.D.

Allogeneic Transplant Program Ireland Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Co-editor of text book on stem cell transplantation, Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation, Laughlin MJ, Lazarus HM. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2003, 454 pp.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology (Case Western Reserve University ) Holds Endowed Chair: Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Cancer Therapeutics.
Director, Allogeneic Transplant Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Bertram Lubin, M.D.

Director of the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA

Auayporn P. Nadamanee, M.D.

Associate Director, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation Director, Allogeneic Transplant Program City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California

Robertson Parkman, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Head, Division of Research Immunology/Bone Marrow Transplantation
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Professor Lawrence D. Petz, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, StemCyte International Cord Blood Center
Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Former Director of Transfusion Medicine, UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California

Joseph Rosenthal, M.D.

Director, Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA

David Senitzer, Ph.D.

Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California

Elizabeth J. Shpall, M.D.

Professor of Stem Cell Transplantation and Medical Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Center at M.D. Anderson

E. Richard Steihm, M.D.

Professor and Vice Chair Head, Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Pediatrics UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Mark Walters, M.D.

Director, Stem Cell Transplantation, Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland, CA

John Zaia, M.D.

Chair and Professor, Department of Virology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA
Director, City of Hope General Clinical Research Center Satellite of USC School of Medicine (GCRC), Los Angeles, CA
Director of Virology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

Scientific Advisory Board

Stephen J. Forman, MD, Chairman
City of Hope Medical Center

Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Chair, Division of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Program Leader, Hematologic Neoplasia Program
Clinical Director, Division of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology
Staff Physician, Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research

Richard J. O'Reilly, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Claire L. Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research

Robertson Parkman, MD
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Head, Division of Research Immunology/Bone Marrow Transplantation
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles