Assoc Prof of Clin Pediatrics
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My research explores racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in access to care and outcome of leukemia and lymphoma treatment. I study access to care across the continuum of pediatric cancer from diagnosis and clinical trial enrollment through treatment and relapse to salvage therapies. My research has shown that African American children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, and mature B cell lymphoma are two times more likely to present with organ failure at the time of a new cancer diagnosis. My ongoing work investigates access to highly specialized and complex therapies such as stem cell transplant, chimeric antigen receptor T cells, and MIBG therapy.

Publications

Impact of Genetic Ancestry on Genomics and Survival Outcomes in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Blood cancer discovery

Newman H, Lee SHR, Pölönen P, Shraim R, Li Y, Liu H, Aplenc R, Bandyopadhyay S, Chen C, Devidas M, Diorio C, Dunsmore K, Elghawy O, Elhachimi A, Fuller T, Gupta S, Hall J, Hughes AD, Hunger SP, Loh ML, Martinez Z, McCoy MF, Mullen CG, Pounds SB, Raetz E, Seffernick AE, Shi G, Sussman J, Tan K, Uppuluri L, Vincent TL, Wang'ondu R, Winestone LE, Winter SS, Wood BL, Wu G, Xu J, Yang W, Mullighan CG, Yang JJ, Bona K, Teachey DT

Liberalizing Requirements for Hospital Proximity Post-CD19 CAR for Children with Low Burden B-ALL at Infusion.

Transplantation and cellular therapy

Lauren Appell, Arunkumar Modi, Christina Baggott, Khanh Nguyen, Snehit Prabhu, Holly L Pacenta, Vanessa A. Fabrizio, Christine L. Phillips, Jenna Rossoff, Heather Emily Stefanski, Julie A Talano, Amy Moskop, Rachel Phelan, Susanne Baumeister, Michael R. Verneris, Erin M. Hall, Gary Myers, Nicole Karras, Stacy Cooper, Muna Qayed, Sunil S. Raikar, Lena E. Winestone, Michelle Hermiston, Prakash Satwani, Christa Krupski, Amy K. Keating, Danielle Friedman, Kevin J. Curran, Crystal L. Mackall, Samuel John, Theodore W Laetsch, Kevin Owen McNerney, Liora Schultz

Real-World Assessment of Patient Adherence to the Late Effects Screening Recommendations Among Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors.

Transplantation and cellular therapy

Neel Bhatt, Elizabeth M. Hellewell, Kevin Ng, Ted A. Gooley, Allison O. Taylor, Sanghee Hong, Anthony Sung, Nausheen Ahmed, Cherie Morey, Sarah Fitzmaurice, Vanessa E Kennedy, Michelle Lauer, Andrew D. Trunk, Betty K. Hamilton, Akshay Sharma, Zoey Phelps-Bergeron, LaQuisa C. Hill, Rawan Faramand, Hien Liu, Lena E. Winestone, Geoffrey Cheng, Manuel R. Espinoza-Gutarra, Omer Jamy, Maria Silvina Odstrcil Bobillo, Brian McClune, Mariam T. Nawas, Samuel J. Yates, Miki Nishitani, Takuto Takahashi, Jane Koo, Kasiani Myers, Kris Michael Mahadeo, Andrea Bauchat, Laurie Pearson, Ritika Walia, Kelsea Seago, Spencer Yingling, Cory Edgar, Amy Browning, Catherine J. Lee

Clinician Adherence to Screening and Preventive Practices for Non-Malignant Late Effects Among Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Survivors in the United States.

Blood

Catherine J. Lee, Elizabeth M Hellewell, Kevin Ng, Ted Gooley, Anthony D. Sung, Allison O. Taylor, Sanghee Hong, Nausheen Ahmed, Cherie Morey, Sarah Fitzmaurice, Vanessa E. Kennedy, Michelle Lauer, Andrew D. Trunk, Betty K. Hamilton, Akshay Sharma, Zoey Phelps-Bergeron, LaQuisa Hill, Rawan Faramand, Hien Liu, Lena E Winestone, Geoffrey Cheng, Manuel Espinoza-Gutarra, Omer Jamy, Maria Odstrcil Bobillo, Brian McClune, Mariam T. Nawas, Samuel J. Yates, Miki Nishitani, Takuto Takahashi, Jane Koo, Kasiani Myers, Kris Michael Mahadeo, Andrea Bauchat, Laurie K Pearson, Ritika Walia, Kelsea Seago, Spencer Yingling, Cory Edgar, Amy Browning, Neel Bhatt

Real-World Clinician Adherence to Screening and Preventive Practices Guidelines for Subsequent Neoplasms Among Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Survivors in the United States.

Blood

Neel S. Bhatt, Elizabeth M Hellewell, Kevin Ng, Ted Gooley, Anthony D. Sung, Allison O. Taylor, Sanghee Hong, Nausheen Ahmed, Cherie Morey, Sarah Fitzmaurice, Vanessa E. Kennedy, Michelle Lauer, Andrew D. Trunk, Betty K. Hamilton, Akshay Sharma, Zoey Phelps-Bergeron, LaQuisa Hill, Rawan Faramand, Hien Liu, Lena E Winestone, Geoffrey Cheng, Manuel Espinoza-Gutarra, Omer Jamy, Maria Odstrcil Bobillo, Brian McClune, Mariam T. Nawas, Samuel J. Yates, Miki Nishitani, Takuto Takahashi, Jane Koo, Kasiani Myers, Kris Michael Mahadeo, Andrea Bauchat, Laurie K Pearson, Ritika Walia, Kelsea Seago, Spencer Yingling, Cory Edgar, Amy Browning, Catherine J. Lee

Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Outcomes after Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation.

Transplantation and cellular therapy

Ballen K, Wang T, He N, Knight JM, Hong S, Frangoul H, Verdonck LF, Steinberg A, Diaz MA, LeMaistre CF, Badawy SM, Pu JJ, Hashem H, Savani B, Sharma A, Lazarus HM, Abid MB, Tay J, Rangarajan HG, Kindwall-Keller T, Freytes CO, Beitinjaneh A, Winestone LE, Gergis U, Farhadfar N, Bhatt NS, Schears RM, Gómez-Almaguer D, Aljurf M, Agrawal V, Kuwatsuka Y, Seo S, Marks DI, Lehmann L, Wood WA, Hashmi S, Saber W

Trends in Volumes and Survival After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Racial/Ethnic Minorities.

Blood advances

Khera N, Ailawadhi S, Brazauskas R, Patel J, Jacobs B, Ustun C, Ballen K, Abid MB, Díaz MA, Al-Homsi AS, Hashem H, Hong S, Munker R, Schears R, Lazarus HM, Ciurea SO, Badawy SM, Savani BN, Wirk B, LeMaistre CF, Bhatt NS, Beitinjaneh A, Aljurf M, Sharma A, Cerny J, Knight JM, Kelkar AH, Yared JA, Kindwall-Keller T, Winestone LE, Steinberg A, Arnold SD, Seo S, Preussler JM, Hossain NM, Fingrut WB, Agrawal V, Hashmi S, Lehmann LE, Wood WA, Rangarajan HG, Saber W, Hahn T

Establishing Costs for Commercial Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (Tisagenlecleucel; Kymriah) in Children and Young Adult B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Merged Analysis from the Pediatric Real-World CAR Consortium (PRWCC) and Pediatric Health Inf

Transplantation and cellular therapy

Prakash Satwani, Karen Chao, Maria Lopez-Garcia, Matt Hall, Zhezhen Jin, Lena E. Winestone, Danielle Friedman, Rachel Phelan, Christina Baggott, Samuel John, Holly L Pacenta, Theodore W Laetsch, Christine L Phillips, Michael R. Verneris, Vanessa A. Fabrizio, Amy K. Keating, Julie A Talano, Amy Moskop, Susanne H.C. Baumeister, Muna Qayed, Doug Myers, Erin M. Hall, Snehit Prabhu, Khanh Nguyen, Crystal L. Mackall, John Kent Lin, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Liora Michal Schultz

Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Long-Term Outcomes in ≥1 Year Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors: A CIBMTR Analysis.

Transplantation and cellular therapy

Blue BJ, Brazauskas R, Chen K, Patel J, Zeidan AM, Steinberg A, Ballen K, Kwok J, Rotz SJ, Perez MAD, Kelkar AH, Ganguly S, Wingard JR, Lad D, Sharma A, Badawy SM, Lazarus HM, Hashem H, Szwajcer D, Knight JM, Bhatt NS, Page K, Beattie S, Arai Y, Liu H, Arnold SD, Freytes CO, Abid MB, Beitinjaneh A, Farhadfar N, Wirk B, Winestone LE, Agrawal V, Preussler JM, Seo S, Hashmi S, Lehmann L, Wood WA, Rangarajan HG, Saber W, Majhail NS

Racial and ethnic disparities in childhood and young adult acute lymphocytic leukaemia: secondary analyses of eight Children's Oncology Group cohort trials.

The Lancet. Haematology

Gupta S, Dai Y, Chen Z, Winestone LE, Teachey DT, Bona K, Aplenc R, Rabin KR, Zweidler-McKay P, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster J, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA, Larsen EC, Angiolillo AL, Burke MJ, Salzer WL, Winter SS, Brown PA, Guest EM, Dunsmore KP, Kairalla JA, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Raetz EA, Hunger SP, Loh ML, Devidas M

Impact of pre-transplant induction and consolidation cycles on AML allogeneic transplant outcomes: a CIBMTR analysis in 3113 AML patients.

Leukemia

Boyiadzis M, Zhang MJ, Chen K, Abdel-Azim H, Abid MB, Aljurf M, Bacher U, Badar T, Badawy SM, Battiwalla M, Bejanyan N, Bhatt VR, Brown VI, Castillo P, Cerny J, Copelan EA, Craddock C, Dholaria B, Perez MAD, Ebens CL, Gale RP, Ganguly S, Gowda L, Grunwald MR, Hashmi S, Hildebrandt GC, Iqbal M, Jamy O, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Khera N, Lazarus HM, Lin R, Modi D, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Patel SS, Pawarode A, Sharma A, Solh M, Wagner JL, Wang T, Williams KM, Winestone LE, Wirk B, Hourigan CS, Litzow M, Kebriaei P, de Lima M, Page K, Weisdorf DJ

Outcomes of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white pediatric and young adult patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia after commercial tisagenlecleucel.

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Panayiotis Vandris, Karen Chao, Christina Baggott, Christine L. Phillips, Muna Qayed, Jenna Rossoff, Stephanie J. Si Lim, Lena E. Winestone, Heather E. Stefanski, Julie-An M. Talano, Steven Margossian, Michael R. Verneris, Gary Douglas Myers, Nicole A. Karras, Patrick A. Brown, Prakash Satwani, Crystal Mackall, Kevin J. Curran, Theodore Willis Laetsch, Liora M. Schultz

Haploidentical vs. sibling, unrelated, or cord blood hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Blood advances

Wieduwilt MJ, Metheny L, Zhang MJ, Wang HL, Estrada-Merly N, Marks DI, Al-Homsi AS, Muffly L, Chao NJ, Rizzieri D, Gale RP, Gadalla SM, Cairo MS, Mussetti A, Gore SD, Bhatt VR, Patel SS, Michelis FV, Inamoto Y, Badawy SM, Copelan E, Palmisiano N, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Lazarus HM, Ganguly S, Bredeson CN, Diaz Perez MA, Cassaday R, Savani BN, Ballen KK, Martino R, Wirk B, Bacher U, Aljurf M, Bashey A, Murthy HS, Yared JA, Aldoss I, Farhadfar N, Liu H, Abdel-Azim H, Waller EK, Solh M, Seftel M, van der Poel MWM, Grunwald MR, Liesveld JL, Kamble RT, McGuirk JP, Munker R, Cahn JY, Lee JW, Freytes CO, Krem M, Winestone LE, Gergis U, Nathan S, Olsson RF, Verdonck LF, Sharma A, Ringden O, Friend BD, Cerny J, Choe HK, Chhabra S, Nishihori T, Seo S, George B, Baxter-Lowe LA, Hildebrandt GC, de Lima M, Litzow MR, Kebriaei P, Hourigan CS, Abid MB, Weisdorf DJ, Saber W