Program Members
Clinical Program Leader
Gary Kupfer
Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology) and of Pathology
Clinical Program Leader, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital
Section Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Clinical Research Program Leader, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center
Clinical Interests:Pediatric oncology; genetic markers for diagnosis, prognosis, staging and tracking disease in patients.
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Clinical Research Program Leader
Gary Kupfer
Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology) and of Pathology
Clinical Program Leader, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital
Section Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Clinical Research Program Leader, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center
Clinical Interests:Pediatric oncology; genetic markers for diagnosis, prognosis, staging and tracking disease in patients.
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Diagnostic Radiology
Rob Goodman
Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Interim Chairman
Chief, Pediatric Imaging
Clinical Interests:Pediatric ultrasound of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract; pediatric uroradiology; oncology; fluoroscopy, cross sectional imaging
- Office:(203) 785-5251
- Appt:(203) 688-2433
Cindy Miller
Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Clinical Interests:Ultrasound, especially cranial sonography, skeletal imaging, including skeletal dysplasias; non-accidental trauma, oncologic imaging, imaging of neuromuscular diseases
- Office:(203) 785-2688
- Appt:(203) 688-2433
Neurosurgery
Charles Duncan
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Pediatrics
Director, Neurosurgery Residency Program
Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Clinical Interests:Tumors of the nervous system; Nervous system/spine trauma care; Central nervous system congenital anomalies such as hydrocephalus, spina bifida, holoprosencephaly, Dandy Walker cyst; Medically intractable epilepsy in infants and children; Spinal cord cancer; Brain cancer
- Office:(203) 785-2809
- Appt:(203) 785-2809
Orthopedic Surgery
Gary Friedlaender
Wayne O. Southwick Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and Professor of Pathology
Chair, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Clinical Program Leader, Sarcoma Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital
Clinical Interests:Tumors and pathological fractures; metastatic disease to bone; fracture nonunions; infections; sarcoma; multiple myeloma; bone cancer; pediatric cancer; limb-sparing tumor resections.
- Office:(203) 737-5660
- Appt:(203) 737-5660
Dieter Lindskog
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Clinical Research Program Director, Sarcoma Program, Yale Cancer Center
Clinical Interests:Adult and pediatric orthopaedic oncology; bone tumors - benign and malignant; soft-tissue tumors; sarcoma; bone cancer; metastatic cancer; radiofrequency ablation of bone tumors; limb salvage surgery; limb sparing surgery; rotationplasty; tumor reconstruction; spine tumors; orthopaedic trauma; fractures; hip fractures.
- Office:(203) 785-2579
- Appt:(203) 737-5656
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Lyn Balsamo
Associate Research Scientist in Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
- Office:(203) 785-3584
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Rebecca Cheron
- Appt:(203) 785-4081
Debbie Chirnomas
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Clinical Interests:pediatric bone marrow transplantation and iron overload.
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 200-2400
Kavita Dhodapkar
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Clinical Interests:Brain tumors; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura and tumor immunology brain tumors; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura and tumor immunology
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Shilpa Hattangadi
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology) and of Pathology
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Clinical Interests:Bone marrow failure; aplastic anemia; leukemia; benign hematology; anemia; pancytopenia; cytopenias; Epo-refractory anemias; red cell aplasias; in vitro red cell culture for transfusion
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Nina Kadan-Lottick
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Medical Director, HEROS Program
Clinical Interests:Late effects of cancer therapy, including osteoporosis, growth failure, neurocognitive deficits, infertility, cardiomyopathy, and second neoplasms; Childhood cancer survivorship; Treatment of acute childhood leukemia and other childhood malignancies; Diagnosis and treatment of hypoglobinopathies; Quality of life of childhood cancer patients; Sarcomas; lymphoma; Brain tumors; Blood disorders; Thrombocytopenia; Hematologic disorders; Immune hematologic disorders
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4081
Gary Kupfer
Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology) and of Pathology
Clinical Program Leader, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital
Section Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Clinical Research Program Leader, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center
Clinical Interests:Pediatric oncology; genetic markers for diagnosis, prognosis, staging and tracking disease in patients.
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Stephanie Massaro
Clinical Interests:Pediatric cancer; leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors, pediatric blood disorders; immune mediated thrombocytopenia, anemia and neutropenia, platelet disorders, bone marrow failure syndromes
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Lab:(203) 785-7089
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Joseph McNamara
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Clinical Interests:Leukemias; Lymphomas; Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors; Solid tumors; Pediatric hematology
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 453-2013
Farzana Pashankar
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Clinical Interests:Hemoglobinopathies including sickle cell anemia; thalasemia; solid tumors, especially germ cell tumors
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Salley Pels
Instructor in Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Associate Director, Yale Hemostasis Center
Clinical Interests:hematology; hemophilia; von Willebrand disease; bleeding disorders; clotting disorders; thrombophilia; thrombosis; platelet disorders; immune thrombocytopenia; alloimmune thrombocytopenia; oncology
- Appt:(203) 785-4640
Pediatric Surgery
Radiation Oncology
Kenneth Roberts
Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology
Medical Director, Yale-New Haven Shoreline Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology
Associate Chief and Medical Director for Radiation Oncology at Shoreline Medical Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Clinical Interests:General radiation therapy; pediatric radiation therapy; hematologic malignancy; lymphoma; Hodgkin’s disease; total body irradiation; endovascular brachytherapy; oncologic brachytherapy; gynecologic cancer; cervix cancer; gastrointestinal cancer; colorectal cancer
- Office:(203) 785-2957
- Appt:(203) 200-2000
