Sharon Savage is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Savage is highly rated in 19 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Dyskeratosis Congenita, Aplastic Anemia, Aase Syndrome, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Blanche Alter is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Alter is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Aase Syndrome, Dyskeratosis Congenita, Aplastic Anemia, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Neelam Giri is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Giri is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Dyskeratosis Congenita, Aase Syndrome, Aplastic Anemia, Congenital Aplastic Anemia, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Javed Khan is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Khan is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Rhabdomyosarcoma, Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Neuroblastoma, and Embryonal Tumor with Multilayered Rosettes.

Brigitte Widemann is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Widemann is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), Neurofibromatosis, Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor, Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, and Thyroidectomy.

Courtney Fitzhugh is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fitzhugh is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Congenital Hemolytic Anemia, Hemoglobinopathy, Hemolytic Anemia, and Bone Marrow Transplant.

Gregory Kato is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kato is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Congenital Hemolytic Anemia, Hemoglobinopathy, and Hemolytic Anemia.

Paul Meltzer is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Meltzer is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Osteosarcoma, Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma, and Pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Christine Heske is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Heske is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Osteosarcoma, and Tissue Biopsy.

Malcolm Smith is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Smith is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Rhabdomyosarcoma, Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Neuroblastoma, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).

Aerang Kim is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kim is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor, Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), Neurofibromatosis, and Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Lisa Mcreynolds is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Mcreynolds is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Fanconi Anemia, Congenital Aplastic Anemia, Aplastic Anemia, and Dyskeratosis Congenita.

Lindy Zhang is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Middle River, Maryland. Dr. Zhang has been practicing medicine for over 10 years is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor, Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), Neurofibromatosis, and Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma.

Jason Fixler is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fixler is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Hepatoblastoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Reticulohistiocytoma, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.

Gary Crouch is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Dr. Crouch is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Hereditary Spherocytosis, Hemophilia A, Hemophilic Arthropathy, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.

"In her first decade as a pediatric oncologist, Dr. Symons already has shown an impressive ability to juggle multiple research projects, in addition to caring for patients. One of Dr. Symons' research pursuits focuses on using a novel immunotherapy approach to treating both solid tumors and hematologic (blood-borne) malignancies. The basis of her work stems from the theory that cancer patients' immune systems should recognize tumor cells as foreign and destroy them. This doesn't happen, theorizes Dr. Symons, because the immune system attacks only those cells it perceives as dangerous—not cancer cells, which it sees simply as foreign. That's where her research comes into play. Evaluating an experimental therapy, Dr. Symons is pairing donor lymphocytes (white blood cells that activate the body's immune system) with chemotherapy to determine if this combination will ""awaken"" patients' immune systems to the danger of existing cancer cells and, in turn, elicit an immune response. In a separate yet equally compelling research endeavor, Dr. Symons is working to increase the availability of donors for children whose cancer requires bone marrow transplants (BMTs) as a potentially lifesaving treatment. ""It can be challenging to find a 'matched' donor,"" says Dr. Symons, who explains that only about 40 percent of patients who require a BMT find a matched donor. ""Sometimes, we don't have the benefit of time, because remissions can be short-lived. But almost all patients have a half-matched donor: a parent, sibling, or child,"" adds Dr. Symons, who is examining ways to reduce BMT-related complications ordinarily associated with half-matched donors after ablative (high dose) chemotherapy. ""Like anything else that's new, it will take some time to prove that this is a feasible option that's safe,"" she says. But she's optimistic. ""It has the potential to revolutionize BMT."" Dr. Symons knows it's worth the wait. ""Seeing the research I do in the lab translate into clinical trials, then seeing patients in these trials survive long term, is incredibly rewarding,"" she says.". Dr. Symons is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Graft Versus Host Disease (GvHD), Aplastic Anemia, Anemia, Leukemia, and Bone Marrow Transplant.

Dr. Stacy Cooper is the Director of the Pediatric Hematologic Malignancy Program, Director of the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, and Clinical Director of the Pediatric Oncology Inpatient Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Cooper received her undergraduate degree in Biology and Spanish at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her M.D. at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She completed her general pediatric residency and chief residency at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship with the Johns Hopkins-National Institutes of Health. Dr. Cooper joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2015. Her research focuses on clinical research in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, as well as medical education scholarship related to fellowship training. Dr. Cooper is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics, the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and the Association of Pediatric Program Directors. Dr. Cooper is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma, Hodgkin Lymphoma, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), and Leukemia.

Brian Ladle is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Ladle is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Osteosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, and Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Bonnie Lau is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Lau is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome, Aplastic Anemia, Fanconi Anemia, and Congenital Aplastic Anemia.

Dr. Donald Small is the Kyle Haydock Professor of Oncology. He holds joint appointments in Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Human Genetics. He also directs the Johns Hopkins/National Cancer Institute Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship program. Dr. Small received his undergraduate, and then M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1979 and 1985. His Ph.D. research was conducted with Bert Vogelstein in the Oncology Department and his postdoctoral research with Tom Kelly in the Molecular Biology and Genetics Department. He trained in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology at Johns Hopkins and joined the faculty in 1990. Dr. Small’s laboratory was the first to clone the human FLT3 gene that is the most frequently mutated gene in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and results in very poor chances of cure for these patients. The investigations of FLT3 led Dr. Small and his team to discover drugs able to inhibit the cancer-generating activity of this important gene. His laboratory showed that a new class of drugs known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors could kill FLT3-affected cells, thus developing one of the earliest molecularly targeted cancer therapies. They then developed a test that enabled them to screen a host of additional kinase inhibitors and find several with great potency against FLT3. His group also led the first clinical trials investigating the use of a FLT3 inhibitor in adult relapsed and refractory FLT3 mutant AML, and determined how best to combine these drugs with chemotherapy. They also helped design the first pediatric trials of FLT3 inhibitors in pediatric AML and infant ALL. Dr. Small’s lab continues to investigate leukemic processes and the role of stem cells in governing the activities of the FLT3 gene in leukemia. Dr. Small is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Leukemia, Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).

Regina Macatangay is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Macatangay is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Hemoglobin SC Disease, Sickle Cell Disease, Anemia, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).

Teresa York is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. York is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Hereditary Spherocytosis, Hemoglobin SC Disease, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.

Yong Kim is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kim is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Rhabdomyosarcoma, Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma, and Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP).

Beth Carella is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Carella is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Transient Erythroblastopenia of Childhood, Aase Syndrome, and Hemoglobin SC Disease.

Edward Sison is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sison is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Leukemia, Infantile Neutropenia, and Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP).