Hematology, Oncology and Marrow and Blood Cell Transplantation

David M. Loeb, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Marrow and Blood Cell Transplantation
Director, Sarcoma Program Professor, Pediatrics and Developmental and Molecular Biology

Leanne M. Ostrodka, MD

Director of the REACT Program Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Daniel A. Weiser, MD

Medical Director, Intra-abdominal solid tumor program Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics

Sarah E. Norris, MD

Director of the Quality in Life Team Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Michelle A. Lee, MD, PhD

Director of the Marrow and Blood Cell Transplantation Program Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Alissa C. Baker, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

William B. Mitchell, MD

Director, Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Adit L. Tal, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Allison M. Martin, MD

Co-Director, Pediatric Neuro-oncology Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Ellen Fraint

Dr. Ellen Fraint is currently a third year fellow at CHAM. She graduated from pediatric residency at Nemours/Alfred Dupont Hospital for Children. She attended the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded the Jesse Frank Prize in Pathology. She has presented abstracts at both AAP and ASPHO conferences. She is currently a member of Dr. Theresa Bowman’s lab, studying ways to perform hematopoietic cell transplantation in zebrafish in order to create a model for improving human bone marrow transplantation. Her major clinical interest is in improving outcomes for bone marrow transplant.

Kaitlin Strumph

Dr. Kaitlin Strumph is currently a second year fellow at CHAM. She graduated from the University of Connecticut pediatric residency program (Connecticut Children’s Medical Center), where she helped establish the pediatric heme/onc teaching curriculum for medical students and implement clinical pathways for oncology patients with fever. Dr. Strumph was also recognized with the Housestaff Teaching Commendation for her outstanding accomplishments and commitment to education. She is spending her 2nd and 3rd years as a member of the Einstein Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP), which is a two year master’s program consisting of didactic learning and coursework as well as a mentored research experience. Her project focuses on investigating the acute effects of iron overload on different immune parameters including vaccine response in patients with sickle cell disease.

Leya Schwartz

Dr. Leya Schwartz is currently a first year fellow at CHAM. She completed her pediatrics residency at CHAM. Prior to residency, she attended medical school at Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in NJ. She is currently working on projects looking at off label targeted therapy in refractory sarcoma and rates of serious bacterial infection in children with sickle cell disease.

Moriah Rabin

Dr. Moriah Rabin is currently a second year fellow at CHAM. She is a graduate of the CHAM pediatric residency program where she was involved in several research projects including treatments for enuresis in sickle cell disease and hyperglycemia during ALL induction. Dr. Rabin was recognized for her leadership skills and selected to serve a Chief Resident at CHAM. She is starting her research years working in Dr. Harris Goldstein's lab studying a novel multi-specific anti-CD19 based lentiviral vector that encodes chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells for treatment resistant/refractory B-cell leukemia.

Nora Rahmani

Dr. Nora Rahmani is currently a third year fellow at CHAM. She is a graduate of the CHAM pediatric residency program, when she received the Leo M. Davidoff Society Award for outstanding achievement in the teaching of medical students. She attended medical school at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and was awarded the Levine Scholarship for Excellence in Translational Research. During her fellowship, she has presented on sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy at the 2018 ASPHO conference and was awarded a travel grant to present at the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Meeting in December 2018. Her current research is in Dr. Amit Verma’s lab, in collaboration with Oxford University in the United Kingdom, focused on employing genome sequencing and gene editing technologies to further delineate the molecular landscape of MDS and AML.

Yixian (Ethan) Li

Dr. Yixian (Ethan) is currently a first year fellow at CHAM. He completed his pediatrics residency at Marshfield Clinic Program in Wisconsin. Prior to residency, he attended Sun Yat Sen University in China, where he won the first prize scholarship for excellent academic accomplishments. He has presented posters at ASPHO 2017 and 2018 on a novel GATA 1 mutation and utility of procalcitonin in fever and neutropenia.

Alison DeSilva, RN, MSN

Administrative Nurse Manager, CHAM 9

Lauren Wendt, RN, BSN, CPHON

Administrative Nurse Manager, Rosenthal 3 and Rosenthal 4

Christina Angrisani. CPNP

Caroline A. Bell, RN, MSN, CPNP

Megan M. Duggan, CPNP

Lara Fabish, MSN, RN, CPNP

Pretti Fernandez, CPNP, CPHON

Ariel Levy, MSN, PPCNP-BC, CPHON

Michele McInerney, CPNP, CPON

Siobhan Polese, RN, CPNP

Christina Rohan, NP

Sheila Buchanan, CPNP, CPHON

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Anne Marie Sterk, RN. MSN, CPON

Unit-based Nurse Educator

Bitalina Arroyo, LMSW

Social worker

Raydale Blaylock, LCSW

Social worker

Rigoberto Tomala, LMSW

Social Worker

Denise Velazquez, LCSW

Senior Social Worker

Talia Haviv, MSEd, CCLS

Senior Child Life Specialist

Christina McGrisken, MSN, FNP-BC, CPHON

May Thompson

Program Administrator Fellowship Coordinator

Arlene Fernandez

Program Assistant, Sarcoma

Rozina PiJuan

Program Assistant

Adriana Rendon

Program Administrative Assistant, QUILT

Brandon Wilson

Administrative Coordinator, BMT

Robin Berger

Program Assistant, Hemophilia Treatment Center

Katherine Guerrero

Office Coordinator

Joyce Brown

Program Assistant