Challice L. Bonifant
Experienced in Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD)
Experienced in Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD)
1800 Orleans Street, Bloomberg 11N, Bloomberg 11N, 
Baltimore, MD 

Overview

Dr. Bonifant is a pediatric oncologist on the blood and marrow transplantation team at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Immunotherapy. Her clinical specialty is stem cell transplantation for high-risk leukemias. Her research interests are in the areas of immunotherapy of cancer and malignant hematology. Currently, her research focuses on design and development of immune therapies as a treatment for poor-prognosis cancers, including development of engineered cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Dr. Bonifant is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Georgetown University. She completed her Pediatric and Hematology/Oncology training at Johns Hopkins and at Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to her appointment at Johns Hopkins, she was an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics-Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Bonifant is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD). Her top areas of expertise are Leukemia, Infantile Neutropenia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), and Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 44 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 1 article in the study of Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD).

Graduate Institution
Georgetown University, PhD, 2009
Residency
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatrics, 2012
Specialties
Pediatrics
Licenses
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology in MI
Board Certifications
American Board Of Pediatrics
Fellowships
Texas Children's Hospital, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 2015
Hospital Affiliations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Female

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Locations

Johns Hopkins Children's Center
1800 Orleans Street, Bloomberg 11N, Bloomberg 11N, Baltimore, MD 21287

Additional Areas of Focus

Dr. Bonifant has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.

Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


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Languages Spoken:
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1800 Orleans Street, Bloomberg 11N, Bloomberg 11N, 
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