Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Dr. Duffield is a board-certified hematopathologist, specializing in the diagnosis of cancers that arise in the bone marrow and lymphoid tissues. She completed a pathology residency and hematopathology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 2010. In 2020, she joined Memorial-Sloan Kettering to become a member of the Hematopathology Service.

Constandina Herbert, MN, RN, BMTCN is the Nursing Supervisor, Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinic at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Ms. Herbert works with patients, families, and caregivers as they navigate the transplant process.

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

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.

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