Aplastic Anemia

Ilene Weitz, MD

Institution
University of Southern California
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Aplastic Anemia
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Dr. Ilene C. Weitz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). Her practice sites include, LAC+USC Medical Center, Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. Dr. Weitz is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hematology. Dr. Weitz earned her medical degree at Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, followed by an internship and residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She conducted a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla

Ellen Ritchie, MD

Institution
The New York Presbyterian Hospital
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
Ellen K. Ritchie, MD is assistant professor of medicine and a member of the Leukemia Program at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Dr. Ritchie graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University and received her medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City. She was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia campus. Dr. Ritchie completed her fellowship

Nikolai Podoltsev, MD, PhD

Institution
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale
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. Podoltsev practice is focused on myeloid neoplasms including acute myelogenous leukemias (AML), myelodisplastic syndromes (MDS), myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) like polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), myelofibrosis (MF), chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) among others. He is providing care for patients with bone marrow failure syndromes / aplastic anemia as well as acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dr. Podoltsev also follows patients with clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), systemic mastocytosis and hypereosinophilic syndrome.

Thomas Prebet, MD, PhD

Institution
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
After completing his doctorate in medical hematology and oncology in Lyon, France, Dr. Prebet joined Institut Paoli-Calmettes in Marseille, France and completed a fellowship in Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MA, USA) as a Fullbright alumni. Dr. Prebet is currently the director of the inpatient hematology unit and the medical director of the hematology division of Yale Clinical Trial Office. He is the associate director of the myeloid malignancies program in the hematology department of the Yale Cancer Center, New haven, CT. He is developing myeloid malignancies clinical trials and

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