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Biting into the Elephant

Person's Name: 
Ellen O. Kalinosky

I believe that a story is the shortest distance between two people. While this is my story, it is not just mine, and I did not do any of this alone. In April 1983, my husband Joe and I were 25 years old and attending to the required pre-marital blood work. Next thing we knew, we were sitting in a doctor’s office because my blood counts were abnormally low. They told us there was something wrong, but they didn’t know what it was.

David Margolis, MD

Margolis, David
Professor
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin

David Margolis, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989. He is currently a professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, located in Milwaukee, and is program director of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program.

Aristoteles Giagounidis MD

Giagounidis, Aristoteles
Head of the Department of Oncology, Haematology, and Palliative Care
Marien Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

Aristoteles Giagounidis is Head of the Department of Oncology, Haematology, and Palliative Care at Marien Hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. After earning his medical degree in 1992 from Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen, Germany, Dr Giagounidis was house officer at the Withybush General Hospital in Haverfordwest, Wales, and at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, UK. He then served as resident physician at the Haematology/Oncology Department of Heinrich-Heine- University in Düsseldorf, where he became board certified in 1999.