Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Leslie Ellis, BS, MD

Institution
Wake Forest Baptist Health Comprehensive Cancer Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia (CMML)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Dr. Leslie Ellis is a hematologist-oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Dr. Ellis earned her BS and MD degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an active researcher and treats patients across the hematologic malignancy spectrum, focusing primarily on leukemias as well as bone marrow failure diseases.

Shannon McCurdy, MD

Institution
University of Pennsylvania
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
Shannon McCurdy, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is employed by Penn Medicine . Dr. McCurdy is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. She is an active researcher and works with the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program, the Hematological Malignancies (Blood Cancer) Program and the Leukemia Program.

Sarah Bannon, MS, CGC

Institution
University of Texas MD Anderson 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)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Pure Red Cell Aplasia (PRCA)
Pediatric
About
Sarah Bannon is a Senior Genetic Counselor in the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical responsibilities include providing risk assessment and genetic counseling services to individuals at risk for an inherited predisposition to hematologic malignancies (leukemia). She is the Genetic Counselor for the Hereditary Hematologic Malignancies Clinic (HHMC).

Mary K. Hughes, MS, RN, CNS, CT

Institution
University of Texas MD Anderson 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)
Pure Red Cell Aplasia (PRCA)
About
Mary K. Hughes, MS, RN, CNS, CT, is a Outpatient, Clinical Nurse Specialist with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Psychiatry Department where she works with a team of mental health professionals to support patients, families and caregivers from diagnosis to treatment to survivorship.

Immunomodulation With Pomalidomide at Early Lymphocyte Recovery After Induction Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed AML and High-Risk MDS

An immunosuppressive microenvironment promoting leukemia cell immune escape plays an important role in the pathogenesis of AML. Through its interaction with cereblon, a substrate receptor for the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, pomalidomide leads to selective ubiquitination of transcription factors Aiolos and Ikaros thereby promoting immune modulation.

Krisstina Gowin, DO

Institution
University of Arizona
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)
Pure Red Cell Aplasia (PRCA)
About
Krisstina Gowin, DO is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Gowin graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2009, where she received a merit scholarship and recognition from the American Women’s Medical Association for outstanding academic achievement. She completed internal medicine residency at University of Southern California, hematology and medical oncology training at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, fellowship training in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. She is board certified in medical oncology, internal medicine and hematology
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