Through internally initiated studies and affiliations with research organizations including the Children’s Oncology Group and the Blood and

Marrow Clinical Trials Network, our program remains at the forefront of transplantation research and technology. This involvement provides our

patients with access to the newest advances in radiology, oncology, and intensive care.

New Patient Appointment

Tel: 617-632-3961 or 888-733-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: pedi_sct**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Leadership - Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Center

Leslie Lehmann, MD, Clinical Director, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Center

Treatment Team

Neuro-Oncology

Michelle Lee, MD, PhD

Hematology/Oncology

Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD

Susanne Baumeister, MD

Alessandra Biffi, MD

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Christine N. Duncan, MD

W. Nicholas Haining, BM, BCh

Birgit Knoechel, MD, PhD

Leslie E. Lehmann, MD

Steven P. Margossian, MD, PhD

Esther Obeng, MD, PhD

Sung-Yun Pai, MD

Christina K. Ullrich, MD, MPH

Jennifer S. Whangbo, MD, PhD

Radiation Oncology

Karen J. Marcus, MDPediatric Stem Cell Transplant

To make an appointment,please call 888-733-***

http://www.**nafarberbostonchildrens.org***

Serine Avagyan, MD, PhD

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard

Medical School

Tel: 617-632-***

Email: serine_avagyan**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Graduate School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Residency: Children's Hospital of New YorkPresbyterian of Columbia University

Medical Center

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute

Board Certification: General Pediatrics

Areas of Expertise: Stem cell transplantation, Genetic

predisposition syndromes to myeloid

neoplasms, Bone marrow failure

Maxim Pimkin, MD, PhD

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Instructor in Pediatrics

Tel: 617-632-***

Email: maxim_pimkin**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Smolensk State Medical Academy

Residency: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatrics

Board Certification: Pediatrics

Areas of Expertise: AML, Stem cell transplantation

Grant Rowe, MD, PhD

Title: Phsyician

Academic Title: Instructor in Pediatrics

Tel: 617-632-***

Email: grant_rowe**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School

Graduate School: University of Michigan Rackham of Graduate Studies

Residency: Boston Combined Residency Program,Boston Children's Hospital/Boston

Medical Center, Pediatric

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatrics

Board Certification: Pediatrics

Areas of Expertise: Bone Marrow Transplantation,HematologyPediatric Stem Cell Transplant - Hematology/Oncology

To make an appointment,please call 888-733-***

http://www.**nafarberbostonchildrens.org***

Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-919-***

Fax: 617-730-***

Email: suneet_agarwal**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Harvard Medical School

Residency: Boston Combined Residency Program,Boston Children's Hospital/Boston

Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certifications: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Pediatrics

Areas of Expertise: Hematopoietic stem cell

transplantation, Aplastic anemia/bone

marrow failure syndromes, Dyskeratosis

congenita

Susanne Baumeister, MD

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard

Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: susanne_baumeister**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet,Munich, Germany

Residency: University of Washington/Seattle

Children's Hospital, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certifications: Pediatrics

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Areas of Expertise: Hematopoietic stem cell

transplantation, Hematologic

malignancies

Alessandra Biffi, MD

Title: Director, Gene Therapy Program

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Email: alessandra_biffi**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: University of Milano School of Medicine

Residency: University of Milano School of Medicine and San Raffaele Scientific

Institute

Fellowship: University of Milano School of Medicine and San Raffaele Scientific

Institute

Board Certifications: Clinical Pharmacology

Pediatrics

Areas of Expertise: Gene therapy, Metabolic disorders,Lysosomal disorders, Hematopoietic

stem cell transplantationPediatric Stem Cell Transplant - Hematology/Oncology

To make an appointment,please call 888-733-***

http://www.**nafarberbostonchildrens.org***

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Title: Senior Physician

Academic Title: Dean of the Faculty of Medicine,Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;

Professor of Pediatrics, Boston

Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-919-***

Fax: 617-730-***

Email: george.daley**[ta]**drens.harvard.edu

Medical School: Harvard Medical School

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital

Fellowships: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology;

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical

Research

Areas of Expertise: Hematology, Hematopoietic stem cell

transplantation

Christine N. Duncan, MD

Title: Senior Physician

Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: christine_duncan**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Residency: Boston Combined Residency Program,Boston Children's Hospital/Boston

Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Areas of Expertise: Graft-vs-host disease, Hematopoietic

stem cell transplantation

W. Nicholas Haining, BM, BCh

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Adjunct, Department of Immunology

and Virology; Assistant Professor,Pediatric Oncology; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School;

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: nicholas_haining**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Oxford University

Residency: Boston Combined Residency Program,Boston Children's Hospital/Boston

Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certifications: Pediatrics

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Areas of Expertise: Biological therapy/immunotherapy,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantationPediatric Stem Cell Transplant - Hematology/Oncology

To make an appointment,please call 888-733-***

http://www.**nafarberbostonchildrens.org***

Birgit Knoechel, MD, PhD

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: birgit_knoechel**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Medical

Residency: ICSF, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certification: Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Hematologic malignancies

Leslie E. Lehmann, MD

Title: Clinical Director, Pediatric Stem Cell

Transplant Center; Institute Physician

Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: leslie_lehmann**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Duke University

Residency: Duke University, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certifications: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Pediatrics

Areas of Expertise: Hematopoietic stem cell

transplantation, Late effects of transplantation, Second transplants,Role of exercise in stem cell

transplantation, Stem cell

transplantation for sickle cell disease and

thalassemia, Transplants for bone

marrow failure syndromes, Global health

Steven P. Margossian, MD, PhD

Title: Senior Physician

Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: steven_margossian**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: Univeristy of Texas Southwestern

Medical School at Dallas

Residency: Babies and Children's Hospital, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia

University Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certifications: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantationPediatric Stem Cell Transplant - Hematology/Oncology

To make an appointment,please call 888-733-***

http://www.**nafarberbostonchildrens.org***

Esther Obeng, MD, PhD

Title: Physician

Academic Title: Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard

Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-632-***

Fax: 617-632-***

Email: esther_obeng**[ta]**.harvard.edu

Medical School: University of Miami School of Medicine

Residency: Boston Combined Residency Program,Boston Children's Hospital/ Boston

Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber

Cancer Institute, Pediatric

Hematology/Oncology

Board Certification: Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Sung-Yun Pai, MD

Title: Senior Physician

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Pediatrics,Harvard Medical School

Discipline: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Tel: 617-919-***

Fax: 617-730-***

Email: sung-yun.pai**[ta]**drens.harvard.edu