Board of Directors
Executive Board Members
President
Robert Fishman
Producer/Director, CBS Sports
New York, NY
Vice President
Charlotte Moss
Designer
New York, NY
Treasurer
Andrew Robin
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
New York, NY
Secretary
Leigh Hampton
Producer
New York, NY
Christina Merrill, C.S.W.
Executive Director
the Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation
New York, NY
Board of Trustees
Seun Adebiyi, Esq.
Founder, Bone Marrow Registry in Nigeria
New York, NY
Jonathan Alter
Senior Editor/Columnist
Newsweek
New York, NY
Deirdre Cossman
Writer/Editor/Television Producer
New York, NY
Lisa M. Eastman
Philanthropist
Locust Valley, NY
Aimee Eberle
Philanthropist
Muttontown, NY
Vasilianna Fakiris
Social Worker/Philanthropist
Flowerhill, NY
Evan Handler
Actor/Author
Los Angeles, CA
Advisory Council
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
President, International BMCF for
Socio-Economic and Political Studies
President, Green Cross International
Jane Holzer
Philanthropist
New York, NY
Harry J. Pearce
Chairman, Board of Directors
MDU Resources
Troy, MI
Elaine Textor
Philanthropist
Locust Valley, NY
Associate Board
Chair
Aimee Eberle
Virginia Apple
Lindsey Bertch
Meg Braff
Patricia D’Anna
Sallie Giordano
Paige Hardy
Shannon Henderson
Lorrie Huschle
Beth Keough
Carina Moran Charlotte Moss Margaret Moss
Marie Napoli
Kate O’Neill
Cheryl Robin
Alicia Scanlon
Mary Snow
Veronica Wu
Medical Advisory Board
Chair
Joseph Antin, MD
Chief, Adult Oncology Stem Cell Transplantation Program
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Members
Brian L. Abbott, MD
Medical Director of Palliative Medicine
Sletten Cancer Institute
Linda Abramovitz, RN, MSN
Hematology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinic, Clinical Nurse Specialist
University of California, San Francisco
Allison Adler, RN, MSN, OCN
Duke University
Transplant Coordinator, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant
Barbara Adler-Brecher, MS , cGC, CHTC
Coordinator, Unrelated Donor Search Services, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
Hackensack University Medical Center
Mounzer E. Agha, MD
Director, Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers
Clinical Director, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Centers
Kristine Ahlberg, RN, BSN, OCN, CHTC
Bone Marrow Transplant Coordinator, Cancer Center Clinics
University of California, Davis Medical Center
Tauseef Ahmed, MD
Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Westchester Medical Center
Zahir Ali, RN
Transplant Center Coordinator
Emory University Hospital
Kristy Applegate, MBA, CHTC
BMT Project Manager
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Jeffery J. Auletta, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Director, Host Defense Program
Hematology/Oncology/BMT & Infectious Diseases;
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics at
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
David Avigan, MD
Director, Hematologic Malignancies/Bone Marrow Transplant
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Rajinder Bajwa, MBBS, MD, MRCP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Ohio State University
Department Of Hematology/Oncology/BMT, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Ruthee-Lu Bayer, MD
Director of Stem Cell Transplantation
North Shore LIJ Health System
Scott I. Bearman, MD
Clinical Director, Rocky Mountain Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Colorado Blood Cancer Institute
Diana Beavers, RN
Transplant Coordinator, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy,
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Samrawit Berhane
Transplant Coordinator, Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Children’s National Medical Center
Monica Bhatia, MD
Pediatric Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
Columbia University Medical Center
Joel A. Brochstein, MD, FAAP
Associate Chief for Cellular Therapy, Division of Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation,
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
Karyn Jean Brundige, MSN, CPNP, ARNP
Nurse Practitioner, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Mark W. Brunvand, MD
Rocky Mountain Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Colorado Blood Cancer Institute
Mitchell S. Cairo, MD
Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Westchester Medical Center
Thai M. Cao, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
City of Hope National Medical Center
Richard E. Champlin, MD
Chairman, Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Nelson J. Chao, MD, MBA
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Chief, Division of Cellular Therapy/BMT
Duke University
Allen Chen, MD, PhD, MHS
Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation
Associate Professor, Oncology and Pediatrics
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Yi-Bin A. Chen, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mei Cheung, RN, BSN, OCN, CHTC
Nurse Coordinator, Unrelated Donor Search Program
City of Hope National Medical Center
Peter F. Coccia, MD
Ittner Professor and Vice-Chair of Pediatrics
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Kelly Cole, MSN, RN, OCN, CNL
Oncology Clinical Nurse Leader
Medical City Dallas Hospital
Laurence J.N. Cooper, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatric Oncology
Chief, Pediatric Cell Therapy
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Children’s Cancer Hospital
Caroline A. Costello, MBA, BSN, RN, CPON
Nursing Education Coordinator, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program
Children’s Hospital Boston
Morton J. Cowan, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Allergy, Immunology, and Blood and Marrow Transplant Division
University of California, San Francisco Children’s Hospital
Pamela Crilley, DO
Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Hahnemann University Hospital
Denise Cummings, RN, BSN, CHTC
Nurse Coordinator, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jignesh Dalal, MD
Associate Division Director, Section of Bone Marrow Transplantation;
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
The Children’s Mercy Hospital
Rebecca Dame, RN
Moffitt Cancer Center
BMT Nurse Coordinator
Nicholas C. D’Cunha, MD, FACP
Medical Director Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
Associate Professor in Medicine
Texas Tech University, Health Science Centre
Mark DeNinno, RN, BSN
Moffitt Cancer Center
BMT Nurse Coordinator II, Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinic
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD
Program Director, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation
Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University
Karen Dubel, RN, BSN, CHTC, CCRC
Transplant Program Coordinator, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
John R. Edwards, MD
Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Florida Hospital Cancer Institute
Donna Eichna, RN, OCN
Transplant Center Coordinator
INOVA Fairfax Hospital
Suzanne R. Fanning, DO
Director, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant
GHS Cancer Institute, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Sherif Farag, MBBS, PhD
Director, Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplantation Program
Associate Director for Clinical Research
IU Simon Cancer Center
Karen Farwell, BS, BA, CHTC
Unrelated Donor Search Coordinator
OTTRbmt System Administrator Collection Center Coordinator
The Univeristy of Arizona Health Network
William Ferguson, MD
Medical Director of the Bob Costas Cancer Center;
Director of Hematology/Oncology and Professor of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
James L.M. Ferrara, MD
Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist
Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sara A. Flickner, RN, BSN, OCN
Administrator, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Lisa Fox, RN, OCN
Clinical Nurse Coordinator, Marrow Transplant Unit
VA Puget South Heath Care System/Seattle Division
Haydar Frangoul, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Steven Fruchtman, MD
Senior Vice President
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
Henry Fung, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Coleman BMCF Blood and Marrow Transplant Center
Rush University Medical Center
Amy M. Garee RN, MS, PNP
Bone Marrow Transplant Nurse Practitioner
Hem/Onc/BMT Division, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Alfred P. Gillio, MD
Section Chief, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center
Sergio Giralt, MD
Chief, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Diane Gissinger, RN, MSN, OCN, CHTC
BMT Nurse Coordinator
North Shore University Hospital
Cecilia Gladbach, RN, BSN, CPON, CHTC
Stem Cell Transplant Coordinator
Children’s Medical Center, Dallas
Londia Goff, RN
Transplant Center Coordinator
West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc.
Renee Gorczyca, RN
Transplant Center Coordinator
Western Pennsylvania Cancer Institute
Kelly Gray, RN, BSN
Transplant Coordinator, Baptist Blood & Marrow Transplant Program
Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis
Rebecca Gueco-Tolentino, RN
Transplant Center Coordinator
New York-Presbyterian, The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
Gregory Hale, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Physician
All Children’s Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Elana Hamburger-Smilow, CPNP
Transplant Coordinator, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
The Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NYP
Adrienne Harrison, CHTC
Supervisor, Bone Marrow Transplant Coordinators
Massachusetts General Hospital
Elizabeth Harvey, RN, CHTC
Blood & Marrow Transplant Coordinator, National Marrow Donor Program Collection Center Coordinator
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Christina Havey, RN, BSN
Rush University Medical Center
Ria Hawks, RN, MSN, CPNP, CPON
Transplant Center Coordinator
The Children’s Hospital of New York
Christine Scura Iovino, RN, MS, FNP-BC
NYP/Columbia University Medical Center
Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
Luis Isola, MD
Medical Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Mount Sinai Hospital
David Jacobsohn, MD, ScM
Chief, Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Children’s National Medical Center, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
Madan Jagasia, MBBS, MS
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Hematology-SCT
Director, Out Patient Transplant Program
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Roy B. Jones, MD, PhD
Professor, Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Matt Kalaycio, MD, FACP
Professor, Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders
Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic
David Kaminetzky, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
NYU Langone Medical Center, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Neena Kapoor, MD
Clinical Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Leslie S. Kean, MD/PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
and The Emory Transplant Center, Department of Surgery Co-Director, Children’s Transplant Immunology and Immune Therapeutics Center
Director, BMT Division of the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Emory University School of Medicine
Edna F. Klinger, RN, BS, CPHON, CHTC
Blood and Marrow Transplant Coordinator
Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Christine Koch, RN, BSN
Allogeneic Transplant Coordinator, Hematological Malignancies & Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
University of Colorado Cancer Center
Cindy Kramer, BSN, RN, OCN
Blood & Marrow Transplant Program Manager
Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Transplant Program
Andrew Kung, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
Columbia University Medical Center
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
Chief Scientific Officer, Robertson Clinical and Translational Cell Therapy Program
Director, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Duke University Medical Center
Tidi Lambert, RN, MN, OCN
Bone Marrow Transplant Coordinator
University of California, Los Angeles
Leslie E. Lehmann, MD
Clinical Director, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program
Dana Farber Children’s Hospital Cancer Center
Boston Children’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Michael Lill, MD
Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Deborah J. Liney, RN
Technical Director, Unrelated Donor/Transplant Programs
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Jeffrey M. Lipton, MD, PhD
Director, Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York
Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Medicine,
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
Aaron C. Logan, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
Assistant Professor (Hematology/BMT)
Judith Luck, MSN, ARNP, CHTC
BMT Nurse Practitioner/Coordinator, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Memorial Hospital West
Fataneh Majlessipour, MD
Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Samual Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Markus Mapara, MD, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center
Professor of Medicine;
Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) Program at
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Wendi Martinez, RN, OCN
Transplant Center Coordinator
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Philip McCarthy, MD
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Linda McVay, CHTC
NMDP Coordinator
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kenneth R. Meehan, MD
Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Jo Meekins, RN, BSN
Transplant Coordinator
Texas Transplant Institute
Susan D. Miller, RN
Clinical Coordinator, Cell Transplant Program
Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh’s First Magnet Hospital
Sarah Mountney, RN, BSN, OCN
Bone Marrow Transplant Nurse Coordinator
Interim Nurse Manager, BMT Outpatient Program
Shands Hospital at the University of Florida
Steven M Neudorf, MD
Clinical Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
Kathleen Neves, RN, BSN, CHTC
Allogeneic BMT Nurse Coordinator
USC Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Ellen Neylon, RN, CCRP, OCN
NYU Langone Cancer Center
Stephen D. Nimer, MD
Director, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Richard J. O’Reilly, MD
Chief, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Andrew L. Pecora, MD, FACP
Cancer Center Director
Hackensack University Medical Center
Paul Pitel, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Pediatrics), Nemours Clinic/Wolfson Children’s Hospital
Brittni Prosdocimo, RN, BSN
Program Manager, Stem Cell Transplant
UPMC HSCT Program, Hillman Cancer Center
Hemalatha Rangarajan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplant
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Voravit Ratanatharathorn, MD
Professor of Medicine and Oncology
Co-Director, Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program
Director, JP McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank
Karmanos Cancer Center
Gail Risley, RN, CHTC
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
Lynn D. Root, RN
BMT Coordinator, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Joseph Rosenthal, MD
Barron Hilton Professor and Chair in Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
City of Hope National Medical Center
Virginia Ross, RN
Nurse Coordinator
Mount Sinai Hospital
Scott Rowley, MD
Chief, Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Hackensack Medical Center
Peggy A. Russell, RN, CHTC
Allogeneic Nurse Coordinator
Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center
Indira Sahdev, MD
Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York
Section Head, Stem Cell Transplantation;
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Christy Satterlee, CHTC
Manager, Intake for Related and Unrelated Transplants
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Michael W. Schuster, MD
Director, Bone Marrow & Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program
Stonybrook Medical Center
Eileen Scigliano, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Mount Sinai Hospital
Stuart Seropian, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Medical Oncology
Yale University School of Medicine
Tsiporah Shore, MD, FRCPC, FACP
Clinical Director of the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program
Weill Cornell Medical College – New York Presbyterian Hospital
Lori Short
Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center
Nurse Coordinator
Sue Short
Nurse Coordinator, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Micah A. Skeens RN MS PNP
Bone Marrow Transplant Nurse Practitioner
Hem/Onc/BMT Division, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Franklin Smith, III, MD
Director, Hematology/Oncology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Thomas R. Spitzer, MD
Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ranier Storb, MD
Program Head – Clinical Research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Roger Strair, MD
Hematology
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital,
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Sharon Swift, RN, CHTC
Unrelated Adult and Pediatric Program, James P Wilmot Cancer Center
Nurse Coordinator, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Strong Memorial Hospital
University of Rochester Medical Center
Diana Tate, RN
Transplant Center Coordinator
University of Alabama at Birmingham and The Children’s Hospital of Alabama
Joanne Taylor
Nurse Coordinator
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
D. Kathryn Tierney, RN, PhD
Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Stanford Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Scott Urban, RN
Transplant Center Coordinator
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Koen van Besien, MD
Director, Bone Marrow and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
New York-Presbyterian
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Alan Houghton Chair in Immunology
Head, Division of Hematologic Oncology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Patricia VanStrien, RN, MSN
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Clinical Program Coordinator, Blood and Marrow Transplant
William P. Vaughan, MD, MBA
Professor, Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
Associate Director for Clinical Affairs, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mati Vizcaino, RN, CHTC
Transplant Center Coordinator
All Children’s Hospital
Georgia B. Vogelsang, MD
Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
James C. Wade, MD, MPH
Chief, Neoplastic Diseases and Related Disorders
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
Edmund Waller, MD, PhD, FACP
Professor of Hematology and Oncology
Emory University Hospital, Winship Cancer Institute
Patricia Wang, RN, OCN
Transplant Coordinator
Florida Center for Cellular Therapy at the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute
Susan Webb, RN, OCN
Manager BMT Program
GHS Cancer Institute, Outpatient Transplant Unit
Nan Werther, MS, CPNP, CPON
Transplant Coordinator/Nurse Practitioner
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York
Peter Westervelt, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Jennifer Wilder, RN, BSN, OCN, CHTC
Search, Procurement, and Outcomes Coordinator
NIH Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program
Clinical Monitoring Research Program
National Institutes of Health
Stephanie Williams, MD
Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital / Spectrum Health
John R. Wingard, MD
Price Eminent Scholar and Professor of Medicine
Deputy Director for Research
Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Florida Shands Cancer Center
University of Florida College of Medicine
Lolie Yu, MD
Eugenie & Joseph Jones Professor
Division Chief & Director, Pediatric Heme-Onc & HSCT Program
Children’s Hospital/LSUHSC
Ruby Yusay, RN
Bone Marrow Transplantation Coordinator (Adult)
Montefiore – Einstein Center for Cancer Care
Jasmine Zain, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center