Meet the CKC Board of Directors
Guiding the CKC Mission
Meet the leaders guiding Curing Kids Cancer.
Our Board of Directors brings together dedicated leaders who share a commitment to accelerating cures for kids cancer. Through their guidance, stewardship, and passion, they help ensure every dollar and every decision moves research, treatment, and hope forward for children and families.
CKC Medical Advisory Board
James Amatruda, MD, PhD
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Nearburg Family Professorship in Pediatric Oncology Research
- Horchow Family Scholar in Pediatrics
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Biology and Internal Medicine
- Attending Physician, Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Medical Center
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Medical Center
Susan M. Blaney, MD
- Director, Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, Texas Children’s Hospital
- Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
- Section Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
- Elise C. Young Chair of Pediatric Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
Catherine Bollard, MD, MBChb
- Director, Center for Cancer and Immunology
- Children’s National Health System
Bill H. Chang, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Director, Leukemia and Lymphoma Program
- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
- Pediatric Blood & Cancer Biology Program
- Member, Knight Cancer Institute
- Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
- Oregon Health & Science University
Kenneth Cohen, MD
- Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology; Clinical Director of Pediatric Oncology
- Professor of Oncology; Professor of Pediatrics
- Johns Hopkins Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Timothy Cripe, MD, PhD
- Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology/BMT Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Maryam Fouladi, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- Medical Director, Brain Tumor Center Marjory J. Johnson Chair, Brain Tumor Translational
- Research Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
Douglass K. Graham, MD, PhD
- Chief and William G. Woods, MD Chair Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Stephan Grupp, MD, PhD
- Director of the Cancer Immunotherapy Program
- Director of Translational Research for the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at CHOP
- Medical Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory
- Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perleman School of Medicine – University of Pennsylvania
Lee Helman, MD
- Section Head, Basic and Translational Research within the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases (CCCBD)
- Director, Cancer and Blood Diseases Research Program of The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Investigator, Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
- Attending Physician
- Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
- Co-chair, CKC Medical Advisory Board
- Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Nobuko Hijiya, MD
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor, Pediatrics
- Section Head of Pediatric Oncology Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Alex Huang, MD
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Associate Professor of Pathology, Biomedical Engineering and General Medical Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,
- Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
- UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Michelle Hudspeth, MD
- Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Director of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Medical University of South Carolina
Javed Khan, MD
- Deputy Chief, Genetics Branch
- Senior Investigator Head, Oncogenomics Section
Ashley S. Margol, MD, MS
- Interim Director, Neuro-oncology Program
- Director Pediatric Neuro-oncology Fellowship, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Paul Meyers, MD
- Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Department of Pediatrics; Robbins Family
- Chair in Pediatrics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Will Parsons, MD, PhD
- Director, Pediatric Center for Personal Cancer Genomics and Therapeutics
- Co-Director, Brain Tumor Program
- Co-Director, Cancer Genetics and Genomics Program Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
- Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
David Poplack, MD
- Elise C. Young Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine Associate
- Director, Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers Director Global HOPE (Hematology Oncology Pediatric Excellence), Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers
- Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Mike Pulsipher, MD
- Section Head, Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Attending Physician; Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
- Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar), Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Stephen Sallan, MD
- Institute Physician Quick Family Chair in Pediatric Oncology Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Kimberley Stegmaier, MD
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Attending Physician, Pediatric Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Principal Investigator, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Co-Director, Pediatric Hematologic Malignancy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ted Williams Chair, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Alan S. Wayne, MD
- Director, Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases
- Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Training Program
- Attending Physician; Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
- Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar), Keck School of Medicine of USC
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California - Co-chair, CKC Medical Advisory Board
- Director, Cancer and Blood Disease Institute; Head, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Howard Weinstein, MD
- R. Alan Ezekowitz Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School
Leonard H. Wexler, MD
- Pediatric Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
