Stem Cell Transplantation Program

Meet our team

Our staff of compassionate and experienced pediatric subspecialists includes stem cell transplant experts, oncologists and hematologists. Our physicians are focused on family-centered care: From your first visit, you’ll work with a team of professionals who are committed to supporting all of your family’s physical and psychosocial needs.

• George Daley, MD, PhD, director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program
  Daley is the director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program and a professor of Hematology/Oncology at Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on stem cell biology. You can learn more about his research at our website on stem cells.
   
• Leslie E. Lehmann, MD, Clinical Director of Stem Cell Transplantation Program
  Lehmann is the clinical director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Dana Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center. She specializes in bone marrow and stem cell transplantation and the long-term effects of stem cell transplantation. In addition, she is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD
  Agarwal is an attending physician at Children’s and specializes in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and pediatric hematology. He is also an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical training in pediatric hematology/oncology here at Children’s.
   
• Kathrin Bernt, MD
  Bernt is a pediatric hematologist oncologist and attending physician at Children’s. She is also an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Christine Duncan, MD
  Duncan is an attending physician at Children’s and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She specializes in stem cell transplantation and the treatment of graft-versus-host disease. She completed her medical training here at Children’s.
   
• W. Nicholas Haining, BM, BCh
  Haining is a staff physician at Children’s and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. His expertise is in stem cell transplantation and biological and immunological therapies for the treatment of pediatric cancers. He has worked here at Children’s since 1993.
   
• Steven Joffe, MD, MPH
  Joffe is an attending physician and research at Children’s. He is an expert in bioethics and stem cell transplant. His research focuses on the ethics of human research studies and the improvement of clinical trial design. He has worked at Children’s since 1997.
   
• Andrew Li-Jen Kung, MD, PhD
  Kung is an oncologist and specializes in bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. His research focuses on the development of targeted therapies for pediatric cancers. The overarching goal of his research program is to move basic laboratory discoveries into clinical testing to advance the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer. 
   
• James LaBelle, MD, PhD
  LaBelle is an attending physician at Children’s with expertise in bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. He’s also an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Steven Margossian, MD, PhD
  Margossian is a pediatric oncologist at Dana Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Sung-Yun Pai, MD
  Pai has worked at Dana Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center since 1994. She specializes in the treatment of primary immunodeficiency including severe combined immunodeficiency, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and others disorders.
   
• Christina Ullrich, MD, MPH
  Ullrich is a pediatric oncologist and researcher with expertise in neuro-oncology and neurofibromatosis. She is the director of Neuro-Oncology and an assistant professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Leo Wang, MD, PhD
   
• Jennifer S. Whangbo, MD, PhD
  Whangbo is an attending physician with expertise in bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. She is also an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Kristen Mangada, CFNP
   
• Melissa O'Connor, CPNP
   
• Jennifer Spidle, PNP, BSN, MS, CPON
  Spidle is a nurse specializing in the treatment of children with neuroblastoma and those receiving stem cell transplants. She is also the MIBG Nurse Coordinator for neuroblastoma treatment.
   
• Margaret Buonanno, MS, PA-C 
   
• Christina Haughton
  Haughton is a protocol care specialist for the Stem Cell Transplantation Program.
   
• Sean O'Donnell
  O'Donnell is a protocol care specialist for the Stem Cell Transplantation Program.
   
• Christine Rosati
  Rosati is the program administrator for the Stem Cell Transplantation Program.
   
• Zarine Fernandez
  Fernandez is the financial coordinator for the Stem Cell Transplantation Program.