Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

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

Dr. Ivana Gojo is a Hematologist/Oncologist in Baltimore. Her clinical focus is on diagnosis and management of patients with acute leukemias (AML, ALL) and other myeloid malignancies (MDS, MPNs, CML), with emphasis on the development of novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases. She is nationally and internationally recognized expert in clinical translation of novel therapeutics for acute leukemias and principal investigator on multiple multi-center investigator-initiated studies. Dr. Gojo joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012 as the Co-Director of Leukemia Drug Development Program

Catherine Chittick, RN, BSN is an oncology nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she has been employed for five years since the start of her career. After graduating from Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT) School of Nursing in 2015, Catherine joined the nursing profession as a registered nurse at the MGH as part of the eCare Nursing Residency program for new graduates. She has both outpatient and inpatient experience, working first in an outpatient infusion nurse caring for leukemia and bone marrow transplant patients before moving inpatient to care for patients with

Jenna Moran, MSN, FNP-BC, is an oncology nurse practitioner with the Leukemia department at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, MA. She has experience in both the ambulatory and inpatient care settings. Her current areas of clinical focus include acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. She has worked as clinical faculty at Simmons College as an instructor for medical surgical nursing. Additionally, she has worked as a global health nurse educator providing bone marrow transplant education and training to

Aura Ramos, RN, BSN, is a leukemia research nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston for the past 6 years. Aura has over 16 years of nursing experience caring for oncology patients in the ambulatory and inpatient setting. Prior to becoming a research nurse, she worked as a staff nurse on the leukemia and bone marrow transplant unit. She had the opportunity to travel to Dhaka, Bangladesh and educate nurses on caring for bone marrow transplant and leukemia patients. As a research nurse, she continues to educate staff on the administration of new research oral and